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.
Making It Work: A Business Planning Case Study
Ohio Business Seminar 2022
The effort of business planning should produce an annual business plan that guides the business through a period of one year. This session will show how a real business plan guided a business to reach its goals.
Building a Budget
Ohio Business Seminar 2022
Creating a budget does not need to be tough, but it does need to be done! Without it, how will you determine if you are on track to achieve the result you desire? Budgeting needs to focus on both profitability and cash flow requirements to be successful. Learn how to build your business budget while…
Planning Sales and Marketing
Ohio Business Seminar 2022
How much should we budget for marketing? What type of advertising works the best? We need more sales but nothing seems to work very well. How do you get people to open their wallets? We need to improve our marketing this year, but where do we start? How do we hire a good salesman? If…
Action Plan
Ohio Business Seminar 2022
Business plans also fail for lack of action in following the planning process. The action plan flows out of the annual strategic plan, specifying who will do what and when to ensure a successful outcome. Successful planning involves discipline, and the action plan provides that discipline by breaking the annual strategic plan down into quarterly…
Planning of Cost and Pricing
Ohio Business Seminar 2022
Do you know your business’s break-even point? Understanding the difference between fixed and variable expenses is a key component in finding your break-even points. Learn how to use the AF Financial Analyzer to understand how these expense categories can determine what investments and expenses are acceptable in your business, based on your sales.
Annual Strategic Plan
Ohio Business Seminar 2022
This aspect of planning is the more common nuts and bolts work of developing and documenting plans for the next annual cycle in the primary business areas of people, finances, operations, and marketing. For success, the plan is built upon the long-term strategy and flows out into specific actions that will break it down for…
Planning Human Resources
Ohio Business Seminar 2022
Without people, nothing gets done. Planning for people is the most important part of any business plan and must be aligned with all aspects of the business plan. This session will focus on some of the annual processes around people that go with annual planning.
Long-Term Strategy
Ohio Business Seminar 2022
Many business plans fail for a lack of clarity regarding the long-term strategy of the organization. This aspect of planning involves a collaborative effort to establish a united vision regarding the culture of the company, its strategy for going to the marketplace successfully, and an overview of plans that characterize a long-term view of the…
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?