About The Organization
About Anabaptist Financial
Anabaptist Financial is a nonprofit loan organization, working to assist the brotherhood in channeling material resources within the kingdom of Christ and providing stewards with financial counsel consistent with conservative Anabaptist beliefs and values. Anabaptist Financial is governed by an independent board of directors. The board is deliberately drawn from different sectors of our conservative Anabaptist community, and reflects a mix of business experience, professional training, ministerial experience, and nonprofit administration. In addition, an advisory group of approximately 40 members provides counsel to the board. The same board, as well as staff, also administers Anabaptist Financial’s sister organization—Anabaptist Foundation.
About Anabaptist Foundation
Anabaptist Foundation is a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt public foundation uniquely positioned to provide charitable gift services to Anabaptists donors, churches, and nonprofit organizations, with a variety of tools and resources available to maximize donated funds. These resources include Donor-Advised Funds, Pooled Income Funds, endowments, bequests, and loans to churches and non-profit organizations.
About Stewardship Resources
Stewardship Resources is a nonprofit education organization, working to assist the brotherhood to provide stewards with financial education and counsel consistent with conservative Anabaptist beliefs and values. We provide educational resources that weave an understanding of Biblical stewardship into business and family finances. These resources include educational seminars, articles, books, audios, an advising/mentoring service, and business management tools.
What We Believe
Our organizational values are expressed in our motto—Stewardship Connections with Integrity.
Stewardship...
We are responsible for physical resources that are entrusted by God to our stewardship. We should use resources in ways that are prudent, productive, and conserving.
Connections...
As God’s people, we fellowship with and belong to each other in connecting relationships. We should use our finances to invest in each other’s lives and bear each other’s burdens.
Integrity...
We are called by God to be accountable to each other and to the church. We should exemplify relationships of honesty, trustworthiness, and responsiveness to others in all areas of life.
Whom We Serve
Anabaptist Financial serves conservative Anabaptist families, churches, and communities with faith-based educational, financial, and charitable gift services. Participation is limited to those who are members in good standing of a church that adheres to the 1963 Mennonite Confession of Faith or earlier similar confession such as the Garden City Confession (1921), Dordrecht Confession of Faith (1632), and Schleitheim Confession (1527). Church affiliation matters because it is a valid reflection of those whom we wish to serve and the level of accountability that we value. In our motto, Stewardship Connections with Integrity, our core value of Connections assumes shared beliefs and practices, and our core value of Integrity is measured by accountability to others. The following list is not comprehensive, but representative, of the church community that we seek to serve.