Empowering A Cycle of Generosity
We believe the church is called to the gap between the world today and the world of God’s imagination. We are grateful to be one among many partnering to strengthen the church by sustaining a continuous cycle of generosity.
The cycle is propelled by impact investing that provides positive returns* and funds a lending program that grows churches and by charitable giving that funds ministries and grants and supports leaders across the spiritual landscape who are learning and creating bold new ways to build cultures of purpose, generosity, and courage.
Together, all of us are doing Christ’s work, bringing about the loving world God imagines.
Investments
Investing in Strengthening the Church
Investments with TMF can earn positive financial returns* while growing churches, building ministries, and igniting the imagination of the next generation of church leadership across Texas and New Mexico.
Investing Impact Story
Investing in Children
You only get one chance at a great childhood.
The Children's Coalition of Aransas County provides vital year-round and day-long childcare that nurtures the spirits and talents of young kids. This quality childcare frees moms and dads to comfortably go to work, improving the quality of life for their entire family and growing the local economy.
TMF's investors in Impact Certificates enabled us to support the Children's Coalition by providing seed funding that launched this community-changing program.
Loans
Helping Expand Ministry
TMF offers loans with flexible interest and principal payment terms favorable to those offered by traditional commercial lenders, empowering churches and nonprofits to achieve their God-inspired dreams.
Lending Impact Story
Including Everyone in the Community
Grace Church in Palestine embraces all people through God’s love.
Partnering with the local school district, Grace Church revitalized the 9-hole golf course on church property, creating a space for fellowship and welcoming the school and the community to enjoy time together playing golf.
Thanks to a loan from TMF, the former golf restaurant and bar is now a bustling coffee shop and kitchen, licensed for commercial use and open to all, supporting the local small business food vendors across the community.
Philanthropy
Creating a Giving Legacy
TMF helps individuals create a giving plan to support the charities and communities they care most about and take care of the people you love, now and in the future.
Philanthropic Impact Story
Expressing a Generous Spirit
Cathy Bell never imagined herself as a philanthropist.
While serving on church finance committees for many years, Cathy saw firsthand that “any amount you can give is important” and that generosity is about so much more than the amount one can give. It’s about expressing your generous spirit.
After providing for her family, Cathy’s generosity will benefit both her congregation at Lovers Lane UMC in Dallas, Texas, and the community it serves through ministries, outreach, and evangelism.
Grants
Responding to Needs
TMF expands donor impact by partnering with our grantees to empower the church's work in the communities it serves and create the opportunity for meaningful, systemic change.
Grants Impact Story
Loving our Neighbors
Neighbor2Neighbor lives out a simple truth – in God’s world, each person matters.
Following the vision of Locke Innovative Leader De’Amon Harges and his approach to asset-based community development, and supported by a grant from TMF, Neighbor2Neighbor helps local churches become the vital heart of their community, nourishing community members as seeds of life through shared lives and stories.
Learning and Innovation
Connecting Leaders in Conversation
TMF connects leaders in brave conversations that blend tradition and innovation, creating enduring relationships of courage and learning that empower the church to stand to its full height and witness.
Investing in Courageous Leaders
Inspiring New Beginnings
Launch 3.0 was a Spirit-led three-day event that brought together entrepreneurs and church leaders from around the country.
Participants gathered in a brave balcony space to connect and flow through an intensive ideation design process to generate innovative, actionable ideas to better serve their congregations and their communities.
Igniting Imagination Podcast
Sparking Conversation
Every movement for change starts with a generative conversation. The Igniting Imagination Podcast features rich conversations with leaders across the church landscape that invite listeners into new possibilities for themselves, their church, and their community.
Nurturing the Spiritual Core
The generative conversations in the Igniting Imagination Podcast this year called us to innovate for love through holy friendships and do the challenging and hopeful work of facing reality to claim the leadership the world needs in this moment.
The podcast supports leaders in their efforts to ensure that churches and congregations, as well as organizations that nurture people's spiritual lives, remain vibrant heartbeats of our communal lives.