About Us

AF provides financial and foundation services to conservative Anabaptist churches, families, and businesses while promoting Biblical stewardship, mutual aid, and brotherhood assistance. 

Two separate legal entities operate as a single organization called AF. A single board of directors presides over the entire AF organization.   

Anabaptist Financial is a 501c3, tax-exempt, brotherhood-based investment and loans organization.  

Anabaptist Foundation is a 501c3, tax-exempt, public foundation providing charitable financial services for donors, churches, and nonprofit organizations. 

The two entities work together to provide stewardship education. Seminars are offered for businesses, families, deacons and church trustees, business workshops for owners and managers, and business advising for owners. and audio and printed Stewardship resources are offered in printed and audio formats. 

Our Vision

To provide stewardship connections with integrity within the conservative Anabaptist community. 

Our Mission

To assist the brotherhood in channeling material resources within the kingdom of Christ and to provide financial counsel consistent with conservative Anabaptist beliefs and values.  

We live out our vision and mission through the following:

1. To assist the brotherhood in channeling material resources within the Kingdom of Christ

Anabaptist Financial’s Investment and Loans Program is a channel for moving financial resources within conservative Anabaptist church communities. Funds received from investors are placed into loans within our constituency church groups. Anabaptist Financial secured its tax-exempt status on a religious basis by demonstrating that our investment and loan program enhances our conservative Anabaptist religious values by connecting investors and borrowers in relationships that preserve our way of life and uphold our traditional values of mutual aid and brotherhood assistance. 

Anabaptist Foundation’s Charitable Gift Fund Program enables donors to support their local church and charities of choice while protecting their privacy by making anonymous gifts. Donors can simplify their giving by writing one check to Anabaptist Foundation, receive a tax- deductible receipt, and recommend multiple churches and charities to support while remaining anonymous.  Conservative Anabaptist donations moving through this Donor-Advised Fund program support a wide variety of churches, charities, and alms fund needs. Gift Planning Services functions as the charitable giving component of estate planning and helps donors make noncash gifts to minimize taxes and maximize giving to churches and charities.   

2. To provide stewards with Biblical financial counsel consistent with conservative Anabaptist beliefs and values.

Through AF’s Investment and Loans Program, our loan officers provide financial mentoring to applicants. Rather than focusing on providing as many loans as possible, we look at each application as an opportunity for mutual learning. We learn from loan applicants as we discuss their needs and goals, and teach stewardship as we help them gather information, probe their motivations, and challenge their assumptions. Our loan officers provide financial mentoring for loan applicants even when it becomes necessary to decline their applications.  

We partner with churches and church trustee committees in situations where close financial accountability may be more important than funding, taking care not to replace the local church brotherhood as the primary support for needy individuals. 

Through our Charitable Gift Fund Program, we connect donors with trustworthy charities to maximize Kingdom benefit. By building relationships across conservative Anabaptist charitable organizations, we objectively evaluate giving opportunities and connect donors with charities that share similar values and goals. 

Our Gift Planning Services assist donors in making noncash gifts such as agricultural and other commodities, highly appreciated real estate, stocks, etc., to their churches and the charities they support. Properly planning a gift of highly appreciated real estate prior to its sale can minimize capital gains tax and redirect funds to charity that would otherwise be paid in taxes.  

Our Stewardship Education Program provides training and resources at three distinct levels: 1) large-group seminars, 2) limited attendance workshops, and 3) one-on-one advising.   

Business and Employee Seminars provide a broad spectrum of business learning and networking opportunities in a one-day format. Business teaching is presented with spiritual principles from an Anabaptist perspective by seasoned businessmen from our own churches.  

Business Workshops provide intensive two-day, small-group interaction on key business topics, led by experienced AF instructors.   

Business Advising provides personal, one-on-one business consulting for growing, struggling, or transitioning family businesses. 

Youth and Family Finance Programs provide evening seminars with financial and budgeting instruction. Printed materials are also provided for youth and young-married couples where Biblical principles are integrated with training in household finances. 

Deacons Seminars provide one-day training events for deacons and church-appointed trustees and advisors to help them become more effective in helping without hurting.  

Stewardship Resources harvests the rich and varied stewardship teaching from our educational events and provides recordings, booklets, articles, and financial management tools.

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Our Core Values:

  • Brotherhood

    We value belonging to the brotherhood. We value caring for one another and bearing one another’s burdens. We value uniting the brotherhood by building connections between people of the various Anabaptist groups we represent and serve. We recognize the authority of the church and value working with local church leaders.  

  • Integrity

    We value integrity in our lives, actions, and relationships. We value being transparent, accountable, and true in relationships and activities. We value helping stewards to develop, deepen, and mature in integrity. 

  • Responsiveness

    We value attentive and timely interactions that will result in others feeling heard, valued, and respected.  We value responding charitably to the brother who is in need. 

  • Stewardship

    We value physical resources that are entrusted to our stewardship. We value being prudent, ethical, and productive. We value utilizing resources in ways that are accountable, connecting, and conserving. 

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What does the AF plow represent?

The AF plow in the logo represents the intersection of the Lord, the person, and the earth. The Lord created the earth and gave mankind authority to exercise dominion. The plow is an icon of the intersection of the spiritual and material. The plow is worth nothing unless man puts his hand to it. 

Who Do We Serve?

Participation in AF programs is limited to church members in good standing in the Conservative Anabaptist constituency, defined as churches which support the 1963 Mennonite Confession of Faith or earlier confessions, including the Dordrecht Confession of 1632 or the Schleitheim Confession of 1527, which have ordained church leaders, and provide brotherhood accountability for their members.   All clients and account holders, including cosigners, trustees, and members of LLCs are asked periodically to confirm their ongoing status. Church membership and affiliation matter as a valid reflection of those whom we are organized to serve and the level of accountability that we value and depend upon in our stewardship ministry.

About Us:

Board Governance and Leadership Accountability

AF operates under a ten-member independent board of directors that is backed up by a forty-member Advisory Group. These directors and advisors are intentionally drawn from different church groups and occupational backgrounds, with strong ministerial representation. A leadership team of administrators and managers oversees daily operations, and a network of professional advisors rounds out our accountability safeguards. Our financial records are audited annually by an independent public auditor, and we are committed to compliance with all laws and regulations that apply to our operations.  

Conservative Financial Policy

Anabaptist Financial maintains a conservative financial policy with a reliance on ample loan loss reserves, strong liquid cash reserves, careful documentation, and use of brotherhood accountability in loan evaluations and resolution of issues.