Betsy Schwarzentraub

Rev. Dr. Betsy Schwarzentraub is the author of Tossed In Time: Steering by the Christian Seasons, Growing Generous Souls: Becoming Grace-Filled Stewards, Afire With God: Becoming Spirited Stewards, and the 2012-2016 United Methodist Guidelines book, Stewardship: Nurturing Generous Living. She has been a minister, writer and national consultant on worship, stewardship and generosity.

After years of serving congregations as pastor, she came to a deep passion for stewardship and sought to teach it on a wider canvas. She has served as the Director of Stewardship for the General Board of Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church and worked directly with congregations as Director of Stewardship in California and Nevada for more than a decade.

Betsy has conducted on-site consulting and website writing for foundations and churches in nine states across the U.S. and has served in various leadership capacities for the National Association of United Methodist Foundations and the Ecumenical Stewardship Center. She taught two years for the Christian Stewardship Association’s Meyer Institute for Steward Leadership, receiving their Outstanding Stewardship Educator Award, and was Stewardship Consultant for the California-Nevada United Methodist Foundation. The founder of a lay pastor training program in the California-Nevada Conference, she teaches courses in worship and in stewardship for lay leaders of congregations.

Betsy received her Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological School in San Anselmo and her Masters of Divinity from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. She and her husband are proud parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. They live in the Sacramento area of Northern California.