03.25.18 Service: "Coffee, Donuts, and Creating a New Economic Reality." (Rev. Tom Schmidt) *Audio Service*

Jim Wallace, Evangelical author and activist writes, “Any budget is a moral statement of priorities, whether it's a budget created by an individual, a family, a school, a city, or a nation. It tells us, mathematically, what areas, issues, things, or people are most important to the creators of that budget, and which are least important.” In other words, how we spend our money and our attention is an extension of our political and economic voice. A new economic model is emerging that takes seriously our moral responsibility for each other and the plane and it is so easy to understand that it can be explained over a cup of free-trade coffee and a donut.