Resources from Anabaptist Financial
Download the 2025 Stewardship Resources Catalog
Anabaptist Financial provides financial education that is consistent with conservative Anabaptist belief and values. We intend to provide families and businesspeople with teaching on stewardship principles that inspires and transforms our attitudes and practices regarding the management of our God-given resources. In this catalog, you will find business articles, seminar recordings, business management tools, family finance budgeting tools, and other resources covering areas of business and financial stewardship.
For a full list of resources for business, visit our Resources for Business.
Business Operational Processes – Optional or Required?
Ohio Business Seminar 2023
Is your business stress increasing and your quality of life decreasing? As business grows, simplistic repeatable processes are critical to delivering high quality products and services to your customers and reducing confusion and stress in your workforce. This session will review what good operational processes look like and how to practically develop them in your…
Passionate Sales–Effectively Helping Your Customer
Ohio Business Seminar 2023
Are we listening to what our customer needs? Or are we simply trying to sell our product? Are we passionately using our whole heart to serve the customer? Let’s explore how to greet your customer, listen to what they need, and help them find the right solution!
Calculating Cost
Ohio Business Seminar 2023
If you do not know the cost, how can you determine the sales price? While it may be tempting to base your pricing off the competition, that method is fraught with pitfalls. Understanding the difference between fixed and variable expenses is a key component in finding break-even points. In this session we will explore how…
Marketing with Purpose
Ohio Business Seminar 2023
Telling potential customers about your product is key to generating sales and surviving in business. However, in the daily whirlwind, we struggle to find time to strategically plan our marketing efforts, much less develop a solid marketing plan. This often results in the uneasy feeling of wondering if our marketing dollars are yielding fruit. This…
Why Numbers Matter
Ohio Business Seminar 2023
Why does accounting matter? Isn’t it more important that you are actually doing something rather than spending your precious time on the numbers? Do the numbers really matter if you are making money? This session will teach you what numbers you should know and why you should be paying attention to them.
Business and Brotherhood – Rethinking the Relationship
Ohio Business Seminar 2023
Many feel that the local church should have little involvement in a believer’s business. Just let business be business and keep it separate from the brotherhood. But is this correct? Should the local church have no input into decisions regarding business debt, size, or operation? Or is it possible that we should revisit the purpose…
Company Culture—A Deeper Look
Ohio Business Seminar 2023
Every business knows that customers and employees are vital to its success, but the key to growth and engagement lies in the one thing that connects them: a great culture. How powerful is culture? Can the culture in your organization be changed and what does it take to effect change?
Leading by Example
Ohio Business Seminar 2023
All of us influence the lives of others, yet a business owner has a tremendous opportunity to impact the lives of many people. If you have been successful in business, others are watching your life choices during good times as well as your responses during uncertain times. How are you using this opportunity, and how…
For a full list of resources for families, visit our Resources for Family Finance.
Surviving Prosperity as a Church
Can our churches survive the gales of consumerism, materialism, and instant gratification that comes with prosperity? How does the influence of Pietism and Fundamentalism affect our ability to survive as a church? This is the last and final article of a 4-part series on Surviving Prosperity.
Do What Is Right
Correcting your mistakes can be hard. Thankfully for Amos, his father was a good role model in doing what was right.
Proactive Leadership
We desire that our churches demonstrate Jesus to our local communities through our businesses and use of material resources. We want our daily lives, our purchasing choices, and our business operations to provide a beautiful and compelling picture of Christianity to our unbelieving neighbors. Yet every church leader I have talked to admits there’s much…
Surviving Prosperity as a Business
Will our communities survive prosperity? The answer to this question does not lie entirely with business owners. But how business owners conduct their businesses will either help or hinder our survival of prosperity. This is the third in a series of four articles on surviving prosperity as a family, business, and church.
Am I My Brother’s Keeper
This fun children’ book helps your children realize the importance of helping one another. This is book three of four.
Surviving Prosperity as a Family
So, can our families spiritually survive prosperity? When we study the Scriptures and all the promises therein, it is plain to see that it is possible. But it won’t be easy. Our family values and lifestyles need to be based upon Biblical values, not merely on accepted practices within the world or even one’s community….
Surviving Prosperity
Exactly what is prosperity, and why do many of us who are concerned about our heritage refer to it in a negative way? Is prosperity bad? This is the first in a series of four articles on surviving prosperity as a family, business, and church.
A Vision for Stewardship in the Church Community
Churches are groups of people called to work together while following Jesus. Does your church have a clear vision of where you want to go and what you are trying to accomplish? If so, does it align with God’s vision? What does God want your church to achieve?
For a full list of resources for deacons and trustees, visit our Resources for Deacons & Trustees.
Trust – Don’t Leave Without It
Oregon Deacons Seminar 2024
Your capacity to influence those you lead breaks down if you lose one critical component—trust. How is trust lost? What happens when we lose it? How can we regain trust? We will explore the pillars of trust and some practical things you can do when trust is threatened.
Peacemaking in the Brotherhood
Oregon Deacons Seminar 2024
When tensions mount and imaginations run high, peace disappears. In its place move suspicion and conflict. However, when God has one or two peacemakers in a church or family, the devil usually doesn’t get his way. How could God use me to bring a peaceful outcome? Or is separation the only option when conflict is…
The Role of the Deacon
Virginia Deacons Seminar 2024
Is handling church funds the only role of a deacon? What place does a deacon have in relationships within the church and within the ministry team, particularly when there is a conflict?
Time Stewardship
Pennsylvania Deacons Seminar 2024
We often think of money when we talk about stewardship. But stewardship is much broader than that. The Bible speaks of “redeeming the time.” How can we be a steward of our time?
The Troubled and Hurting Among Us – Rethinking the Role of the Church
Pennsylvania Deacons Seminar 2024
Has the church paid a price by sending our troubled, hurting people to Anabaptist institutions rather than engaging in the heavy personal work these people need? What if the church were to see itself as primary caregivers? What part of our beliefs and focus may need to change? Can the church develop the vision, knowledge,…
Joy in Serving
Pennsylvania Deacons Seminar 2024
All of us are called to serve;some are called to serve as a church leader, while others might serve on a trustee committee. How do we find joy while carrying the weight of responsibility that comes with serving?
How Much Debt is Too Much Debt?
Pennsylvania Deacons Seminar 2024
Is there something like too much “good debt”? We use debt as a tool to start a business or buy an asset that appreciates. Can we ever use good debt for wrong motives?
Helping People Recognize and Admit Their Needs
Pennsylvania Deacons Seminar 2024
Most troubled people long for change – a transformation. Why then are they so stuck in the mire of blindness and resistance? How can we help pull them toward victory, relational peace, and fruitfulness?