Premier Corporate Partner

 

 

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.


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.


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.

 

 

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.


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.


Generous Giving was launched in 2000 by The Maclellan Foundation, a recognized leader in Christian grant-making for 60 years. Generous Giving’s mission is to motivate followers of Christ toward greater Biblical generosity, and encourages givers to live with open hands to God. Through relationships and experiences, thousands are realizing the joy of giving, and resources are being deployed for God’s purposes around the world.


Ministry Partners Investment Corporation serves ministry-minded investors who desire higher rates of return and safety in investments consistent with their beliefs. Ministry Partners investments are backed by real estate loans to churches, schools and ministries for the purposes of Kingdom building. Christians and evangelical organizations all across the country invest in a wide variety of terms and amounts, which meet their own specific needs. To learn more about Ministry Partners, you may call 800.753.6742, e-mail partners@eccu.org, or visit us online at www.ministrypartners.org.

 

 

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.


Our vision, at G.A. Repple & Company, is to see advisors transform communities across the country through Workplace Ministry. We wish to see advisors impact their communities by teaching Biblical stewardship, and providing Godly financial counsel. We wish to see every church and ministry with a Stewardship Minister and a Foundation.


Your Outsourcing & Virtual Office Solution.
Bridge Portfolio® provides an end-to-end enterprise solution, including risk & asset allocation profiling, account administration, reconciliation & billing, performance reporting, portfolio trading & access to top-tier money managers, allowing financial advisors to focus on servicing clients and gathering assets.


IW Financial’s powerful analytical tools make it easy to align clients’ values with their investments. Using our tools, investment advisors can quickly create profiles for each client that capture their strongly held beliefs about issues such as pornography, gambling, abortion and contraception, the environment, etc. The profiles can then be used to evaluate portfolios, identify appropriate investments, and demonstrate alignment with client guidelines.


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.”


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.


 

 

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.


Helping Hands Ministries, Inc’s., mission and purpose is to serve and assist donors in their charitable giving for Kingdom purposes in the most cost effective and efficient manner. Helping Hands Ministries performs the following:
1. Gifts/Support to Individuals
2. Non-Complex Gifts – Simple Gifts
3. International Grants
4. Loans
5. Corporate Scholarship & Benevolence Funds


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.


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.


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 Wycliffe Foundation is a non-profit corporation that serves several organizations based in the United States associated with global Bible translation efforts. The Wycliffe Foundation is a gift-planning ministry that informs people about programs like wills, trusts and annuities. For more information on the Wycliffe Foundation, visit: www.wycliffefoundation.org.


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 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.


 

 

Resource Partners

 

 

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.


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™.


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.


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.