Articles
Letter from the President: Investing with Discipline
The Olympics always provide us with inspiring stories of athletes who have invested countless hours into their chosen sport, often overcoming...
Investing in Community: Ministry Highlight – Chapel of Change (CA)
Chapel of Change is one church with four locations in Los Angeles County, California. What started as a small mid-week home Bible study is now a...
Investment Process
If you have any type of investment account with FM Financial or GuideStream, you may wonder how your investments are chosen. Because this is a...
Investing: Short-Term and Long-Term
When choosing among the many investment options available today, it is important to determine if you are saving for a short-term or a long-term...
Letter from Our President: Free Methodist Investment and Loan Fund
Many of you have used FM Financial’s planning, investing, and giving services. But you may not be aware that we also offer loan services to Free...
Ministry Highlight: Vine & Branch Church (Liberty, NY)
Vine and Branch is a Free Methodist church that has served Liberty, New York, and the surrounding area, since 1864. Just prior to COVID, the church...
Ministry Highlight: Renovation Church (Portage, MI)
Our relationship with Renovation Church in Portage, Michigan, began in the early 1990s. Most recently we worked with the congregation in 2006 on a...
Stewardship Well Done Journey: Emergencies
Waypoint 4 on the Stewardship Well Done Journey is EMERGENCIES – assess insurance needs and build/maintain an emergency fund of 3-6 months of...
INVESTING: Definitions 103
In a previous article, we defined an asset simply as something that generates money. In this issue, we want to look deeper into one particular asset...
Ministry Highlight: Journey Church (Castle Rock, CO)
Journey Church contacted FMF in 2012 when they were a church of about 600 moving from rented space to rented space as they were blessed with growth....