Premier Corporate Partner

Wells Real Estate Funds is a national real estate investment management firm that purchases existing Class-A office and industrial properties leased long term to creditworthy tenants. Wells was the largest purchaser of Class-A office and industrial real estate in 2002 and 2003, according to the New York-based Real Capital Analytics. In its investment products, Wells serves more than 160,000 investors nationwide with more than $6 billion in assets representing 31 million square feet of commercial space.

CNL Securities Corp. offers the next generation of real estate investment products to help financial advisors thrive in today’s market. A subsidiary of CNL Financial Group, Inc., the company has worked with an extensive network of more than 367 FINRA member broker/dealer firms and more than 23,597 registered representatives nationwide. Since inception in 1986, CNL Securities Corp. has raised more than $11 billion in private and public offerings through its network of broker/dealer firms. With a focus on real estate, service and relationships, the company continues to Invest in the Next™. Contact CNL Securities Corp. managing dealer, Member FINRA/SIPC at (866) 650-0650.

Premier Ministry Partners

Since 1982, The National Christian Foundation (NCF) has helped thousands of people give close to a billion dollars to the ministries and causes they believe in – rather than to the federal government in the form of taxes. NCF helps:
1. Individual givers make a greater impact with their charitable giving, give practically any asset entrusted to them and balance their giving with income needs.
2. Ministries and churches offer their supporters innovative ways of giving, which can lead to significant new funding for their organization.
3. Professional advisors (financial planners, CPAs, attorneys and others) offer their clients charitable giving expertise, which builds stronger client relationships. To learn more, visit NCF on the web at www.nationalchristian.com or call 800.681.6223.

Crown Financial Ministries is a merger of two ministries: Larry Burkett’s Christian Financial Concepts and Howard Dayton’s Crown Ministries. Crown’s mission is to train Christians to handle money from God’s perspective. It offers biblically-based advice on various areas of personal/family finance, including budgeting, debt reduction, charitable giving and investments. Crown’s primary vehicle is a very well-attested small group Bible study designed for use at the local church level.

Generous Giving proclaims the joy of giving—not out of duty or guilt, but out of gratitude for salvation in Christ. Generous Giving is a privately funded ministry that seeks to encourage givers to experience the joy of giving and embrace a lifestyle of generosity, according to God’s word and Christ’s example. It was launched in 2000 by The Maclellan Foundation to stir a renewed, Spirit-led commitment to generosity among Christians. Generous Giving does not solicit donations.

Corporate Partners

For more than 20 years, the Robert Pittenger Company (RPC) has researched, evaluated, and purchased undeveloped land in the path of urban growth areas. Through a proven strategy of acquiring property, where the potential for development has been clearly demonstrated, RPC offers exceptional land purchasing opportunities to its investors. To date, RPC has acquired and invested in excess of $200 million of undeveloped land. Our success in determining future paths of progress in stable growth regions earned annual returns on average of 20% IRR (compounded annual rate) net to our investors. All our investments are through equity participation, with no debt and no future development obligation or risk. For further information, please visit our website at www.pittengercompany.com or call Daniel Burns at 704.365.0065.

Aris provides customized wealth management, retirement plan and trust services. Sophisticated risk management processes and technologies are utilized to create investment portfolios based on client risk profiles and objectives, including biblical, faith-based or social criteria. Utilizing multiple issues screening software and extensive manager due diligence, Aris identifies investment vehicles to create portfolios built on the same risk based philosophy as Aris’ traditional strategic and tactical portfolios. Aris’ customization further provides for the ability to transfer existing holdings in-kind and also provides for the ability to manage taxes. Aris provides a complete turnkey solution including investment due diligence and monitoring, account transitioning, rebalancing, consolidated performance reporting and billing, freeing the advisor to focus on client relationships and planning needs. Retirement plan capabilities include defined contribution and defined benefit plan design, administration and consulting. Retirement plan and trust portfolios may also be constructed based on biblical, faith-based or social criteria.

Evangelical Christian Credit Union (ECCU) exists to help evangelical organizations and ministry-minded individuals become better stewards of their finances. ECCU serves churches, ministries and Christian schools across the country and missionaries around the world. As a member-owned financial cooperative, we gather funds and lend these to growing organizations to further the Kingdom. Service by service, our job is delivering banking services that support the achievement of your ministry’s goals. We measure our success through the increased effectiveness we deliver to your ministry.

Faithbased Strategies "Your clients face the lost of a loved one, what are you going to do?"
As a Trusted Advisor you have an opportunity to help. Faith Based Strategies provides web based tools so you can:

• Assist families in their greatest time of need, instilling for them "peace of mind".
  

• Provide families control of the situations they will face in administering an estate.
  

• Educate and organize through a complete road map, planning tools and best practices.

We work with you to integrate these Estate Administration and Planning tools into your website to maximize your brand

Financial Professionals Group | FPG is a national support organization serving Financial Professionals, Broker Dealers and Associations. We provide a unique experience relationship through FPG’s value creation process called The Financial Professionals Solution™. Through this 4 step process we learn about you and your vision, while identifying your unique opportunities and strengths.

Our team provides wealth accumulation, wealth distribution and wealth preservation planning solutions through the optimal use of life insurance and annuities. We look forward to serving you and your unique business model.

For more information contact FPG at 877.455.0119 x224 / x229 or visit us at fpgonline.com.

Serving The 21st Century Financial Professional™

Strongtower Financial is one of the nation’s leading financial services providers, serving churches, ministries and individual investors with financial solutions that truly matter. Strongtower Financial provides churches and Christian non-profit religious organizations with capital and services ranging from permanent financing and bond underwriting to investment and cash management services. Strongtower Financial is the nation’s leading originator of church bonds and has provided financial services to over 4,000 churches. The Company is also a full-service broker dealer, providing a wide range of financial services and money management to individuals and organizations.

Cambridge Legacy Group is a community of financial professionals who have pledged themselves to helping people make smart choices about their money. We are the premiere provider of The Smart Money Experience(TM), a fully integrated implementation of Values-Based Financial Planning(TM). The result is a fully integrated planning process, complete with a Deliverables Team of Subject Matter Experts, that gives you and your clients the highest probability of achieving your goals. We believe that your clients achieving their goals and fulfilling their God-given purpose is the greatest evidence that you have indeed served them well as a Trusted Advisor.

A leader in its field, the Steward Family of Mutual Funds offers investors of faith peace of mind while seeking to meet their financial goals. Fund investors can invest in both stock and bond funds, many of which are index funds. All Steward funds are no-load, which means there are no sales fees to buy or sell the funds. In addition, all Steward funds employ sophisticated screening disciplines to insure investors do not need to compromise their convictions with the companies they own. The Steward funds are the most rapidly growing faith-based fund family in America.

MMA Praxis Mutual Funds is a leader in faith-based investing for individuals and institutions. Grounded in religious principles of the Mennonite and Anabaptist traditions, the funds offer investors the opportunity to engage their faith through stewardship investing practices. Mennonite Mutual Aid, the parent corporation of the funds, is an agency of the Mennonite Church USA and has been offering financial services for over fifty years.

Since 1983 Hartman has been striving to maximize investor value by acquiring, leasing, and managing quality shopping centers, offi ce buildings, and offi ce/warehouse facilities. We have sponsored 19 investment programs, both public and private, and leased, managed, and operated over 6,000,000 square feet of commercial real estate. Our business model, experienced real estate investment executives, and commitment to shareholder value enabled us to weather economic downturns and have positioned us as a
sponsor investors respect and trust.

Ministry Partners

Partnering with local churches, denominations, and Christian organizations around the world, Campus Crusade for Christ seeks to help fulfill the Great Commission by building spiritual movements everywhere so that everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus. Our strategy of Win -- Build -- Send guides our activities as we develop self-replicating movements across the globe.

Answers in Genesis is an apologetics (i.e., Christianity-defending) ministry, dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively. We partner with churches by providing resources, speakers, an award winning web-site, and a 70,000 square foot Creation Museum to train and disciple their congregation.

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Billions of people across the globe are waiting to hear the lifesaving Gospel message, and each day 93,000 of them pass into eternity—without hope. God has given the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association unprecedented opportunities to take His Good News to the ends of the earth. Along with evangelistic Crusades, BGEA is using many innovative outreaches, including Dare to Be a Daniel evangelism training for youth, Billy Graham Rapid Response Team crisis ministry, the World Evangelism Through Television project, My Hope, and Rock the River Tour evangelistic concerts for the next generation.

Faith Comes By Hearing’s mission is to reach poor and illiterate people worldwide with the Word of God in audio, discipling them in their mother tongue. Our commitment is to record Audio New Testaments for every people group and to start Audio Bible listening programs for the world’s oral majority, so that they can experience the hope and salvation of Jesus Christ.

The SoulCare Project, in partnership with the Maclellan Foundation, is dedicated to providing leaders intentional space for rest and communion with Christ. Our desire is to give leaders a safe place to experience the quiet assurance of God's love without becoming over-worked, exhausted, and burnt out. The majority of this vision has been accomplished by exposing leaders to the significance of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, and by providing retreats where leaders have an opportunity to set aside the busy and productive life in order to listen and hear God's voice through stillness.

The Great Commission Foundation and its team of professionals offer unique legal and financial experience to individuals, businesses, and charitable organizations to put resources into effective evangelism today... and tomorrow.

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. www.worldvision.org

The World Vision Advisors Network is a network of attorneys, accountants, and financial professionals who are supportive of World Vision and include charitable planning as part of the expertise and advice they provide their clients. We partner with our members to provide charitable gift planning tools and high impact giving opportunities for their clients. www.worldvision.org/advisors.

Opportunity International For 40 years, Opportunity International has lived out Christ’s call to love and serve the poor. Through its network of community banks and through innovations like mobile banking, Opportunity provides access to savings accounts, business loans, insurance and training for more than two million people in the developing world. Given the tools to grow their businesses, clients buy and sell goods, hire neighbors and place profi ts in savings accounts – making loan capital available to others and helping to build thriving communities. Opportunity banks on the spirit of people and on their hopes and dreams, and stands alongside its clients as equal partners in the fi ght against poverty.

Resource Partners

Our Resources—Reaching the Families of the World
The family is an institution that cuts across every nation and culture. The timeless principles presented at FamilyLife conferences and events are universal truths that every family needs. Conferences have now been held in numerous countries around the world, teaching couples God’s blueprints for the family in the language and context of their culture.

Focus on the Family exists to serve you and your family. That has been our goal since 1977, when child psychologist Dr. James Dobson started a small 15-minute radio weekly broadcast. Our broadcasts now reach 220 million listeners daily, on over 7,000 stations in 160 countries. We’re on the front-lines wherever legislation threatens to harm the family. We keep the printing-presses running with brochures, newsletters, magazines and books to help make sense of marriage and parenting. We’re here for you. Let us help, however we can.

Halftime is an organization dedicated to helping successful people pursue significance. Our books, events, curriculum and coaching have served thousands of people on their journey from success to significance. Our partnership with Kingdom Advisors enables you to bring our expertise along side your financial planning practice, to better serve your clients who may be in Halftime.

NEXT Financial Group was founded by a group of passionately independent investment professionals and is now 80% owned and managed by its representatives. At NEXT, you are free to create your own vision of success, and have complete autonomy to customize financial services for each investor. Unlike firms, we are not affiliated or owned by an investment or insurance company. We’re a community of individuals that discuss, share and inspire each other. We live and breathe a shared value of outstanding service, and provide our representatives the support they need to grow and run their business successfully. With ownership available to every representative and employee, everyone at NEXT has a voice and input into how the company is run. It’s a philosophy that has resulted in extraordinary company growth and history-making industry accolades such as “Broker/Dealer of the Year.*” In fact, our own representatives have voted NEXT Investment Advisor magazine’s “Broker/Dealer of the Year” for 6 consecutive years.
*2001-2006; Based on a poll of registered representatives conducted by Investment Advisor magazine. Broker/Dealers rated highest by their representatives are awarded “Broker/Dealer of the Year.”

MasterYourMoney.com makes a lifetime of Ron Blue’s teaching accessible to individuals with financial needs and questions. The website is a place where those with pressing financial questions can find answers backed by Biblical wisdom and Ron’s experience. Currently, the site offers a weekly Video Feed that encourages subscribers where they are and challenges them to think about God’s ownership of their resources. In the future, the website will be organized around Ron’s Eleven Buckets Approach to financial planning, and content in those “buckets” will be added on an ongoing basis. As Kingdom Advisors, we welcome you to join the “Virtual Feedback Loop” at MasterYourMoney.com and use the website as a tool to communicate with and further educate your clients.

OneAmerica Financial Partners, Inc. traces its solid foundation more than 125 years in the insurance and financial services marketplace. Its nationwide network of companies and affiliates offers retirement plan products and services, individual life, group and credit insurance, and annuities. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, American United Life Insurance Company® (AUL) is the founding member of OneAmerica®. AUL is licensed and authorized to conduct life insurance business in 49 states and the District of Columbia.

Overseas Council equips nationals for Christian leadership through its ongoing partnerships with a worldwide network of leadership training centers. These partners include seminaries, Bible colleges and Christian universities that share our vision to develop godly leaders for a global church that is fully engaged in fulfilling Jesus’ Great Commission. They have a successful track record of training pastors, teachers, missionaries and lay leaders in their own cultural context.

The Stewardship Alliance is a “marketplace ministry” serving Christian professional advisors, preparing and mentoring them for client leadership in Life Stewardship based on Biblical principles. TSA offers two levels of education and training. The initial program teaches charitable tools, techniques and strategies, as well as how to optimize the financial & non-financial areas of their clients’ lives in a manner that leads to greater generosity. The second program educates Christian professional advisors in a planning process, The Stewardship Solution™, in which the Professional Advisor leads clients in the integration of Faith, Feelings, Facts, Family, and Finances™, results in a Plan that unites their Purpose & Passion with Biblical Principles of Stewardship. TSA’s Life Stewardship™ program focuses on and enlarges Kingdom Impact as the client journeys from Insight to ENDsight™.

Stewardship Partners is a leader in the field of Biblically Responsible Investing(BRI) and has a distinctly Christian approach to Socially Responsible Investing (SRI). Founded by ex-Templeton fund manager Rusty Leonard in 2000, Stewardship Partners combines both highly skilled and experienced portfolio management capabilities with the most extensive database of information available on the activities, both positive and negative, of public companies. Armed with these skills and research, we seek to invest our client’s portfolios in securities of those firms that offer the best combination of long-term capital appreciation potential and biblically-based values so that our clients can be assured that their Christian worldview is reflected in their investment portfolio. Stewardship Partners markets its separate account investment management services ($100,000 minimum account size) primarily through financial consultants and financial planners.

At the Timothy Plan®, we believe we have designed an excellent mutual fund family to serve the needs of concerned investors. We believe there is a genuine difference between Timothy and other investment options – one that can help you combine your investment goals with your moral convictions. This difference is found in the way we think, in the way we research companies, in the way our highly respected professional money management firms possess specific expertise unique to their particular fund, and in the way each manager is committed to make every investment decision subject to Timothy Plan’s moral screening criteria.

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