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.
Becoming the Employee You Would Like to Hire
Pennsylvania Employee Seminar 2024
As an employee of a company, it can be challenging to know what the owner or manager is wanting from us. How can we bring value to the business if we don’t know? This session will bring clarity on what employers are looking for even when it’s not clearly communicated.
Internal Customer Service
Pennsylvania Employee Seminar 2024
What does internal customer service mean? Do you as an employee understand who you are working for? What is the difference between serving an external customer and the employee next to you? In this session, let’s explore what an exceptional internal customer experience is.
Utilizing Outside Perspective
Pennsylvania Business Seminar 2024
The Bible says, “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another” Prov. 27:17 (paraphrased). Effective leaders are always looking for those trusted voices to speak truth into their lives and help them stay grounded in reality. Our own beliefs, thoughts, ideas, and feelings are inherently biased, which makes it difficult to see things objectively….
Compliance and Written Agreements
Pennsylvania Business Seminar 2024
The Anabaptist community transfers businesses, buys farms, and manages finances on a regular basis, but often neglects to put the agreement in writing. We will discuss ways to conduct business with simple, effective agreements that help avoid unnecessary confusion and strife.
Learning to Rest
Pennsylvania Business Seminar 2024
Are you one of those driven overachievers? If so, you are not alone. I am also one of them. To complicate matters further, I am also blind. Learning to rest will be a lifelong process for some of us. Let me share with you my story of starting a business as a blind teenager, and…
Apprenticeship
Pennsylvania Business Seminar 2024
The abrupt transition from sheltered home to fast-paced workplace can be overwhelming for young employees. How can we best onboard and train them to develop into ideal team members? Apprenticeship is a time-tested model that provides on-the-job education – learning by doing.
Creating Successful Organizational Processes
Pennsylvania Business Seminar 2024
Business owners, managers, and employees must develop repeatable methods of operating that bring quality, efficiency, and success to the business. This session will give pointers on how to create successful processes in your organization.
Working in Harmony in our Polarized Culture
Pennsylvania Business Seminar 2024
The polarization in our American culture works its way into our daily workplace. Explore ways to bring harmony among a diversity of people in an age of contempt from those who disagree with us.
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?