About FSMP Online

The Financial Stewardship Mentoring Program (FSMP) was established to free Christians from debt to serve Christ. Based upon biblical principles of stewardship, the program pairs trained mentors with households seeking to gain control over their finances and establish effective stewardship of the resources entrusted to them.

The FSMP began working directly with households in 2005. After an inauspicious start using traditional budgeting methods, we changed our approach. Instead of looking backwards to assess where money had been spent, we took a future perspective and assigned priorities to cash as it became available. The program cuts through the clutter and confusion of our complex financial system and helps participants avoid the pitfalls presented by an ever-present media providing frequent, insistent, and effective enticements to borrow and spend. Participants learn to manage finances in accordance with their values and priorities.

We train mentors for this program with a 6-week course on implementing our cash-based “Project, Prioritize & Pay” program. Participants are personally mentored through a 5-week operational program to learn the principles of biblical stewardship concurrently with an 8-week technical program to learn to successful management.

The FSMP is incorporated in the State of Minnesota as a non-profit, public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. This charitable corporation is run by a three-member Board of Directors.