Strongtower Financial

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A Force for Growth for Over 40 Years

As a national leader in church financing and non-profit lending, Strongtower Financial has helped thousands of churches and other religious organizations expand their ministries. But that’s just the beginning.

Birthed as a ministry of the California Baptist Foundation in the 1960's as California Plan of Church Finance, their mission was to finance the growing needs of America’s churches and Christian ministries. They accomplished this first through traditional lending and then were among the pioneers in originating church bonds. Over the years as their expertise grew, they were among the first church bond companies to register to sell bonds to the public, making bond financing a better option, and they built relationships with thousands of

investors to facilitate trading and add further transparency and credibility to the church bond market. With thousands of churches and investors served and more than $1 billion in church bond originations, Strongtower has fulfilled their mission to serve the needs of the church and of their investors.

This investor focus in church bonds led them to become a registered broker-dealer in 1994 and to expand into offering investment advisory services and a wide range of products from mutual funds and retirement planning to equities and, most recently, insurance. They followed this with a strategic alliance in 2003 with a national brokerage firm, RBC Correspondent Services to provide a robust, real-time trading and account management platform to support their registered representatives and clients alike.

Over the years, they also grew beyond their Southern Baptist roots and West Coast geography to serve Christian Churches and individual customers across more than 30 denominations and in all 50 states. In 2006, they changed their name from the California Plan of Church Finance to Strongtower Financial to reflect their broad reach and diversified financial services. Today, they have a staff of professionals committed to being the leader in church financing, faith-based non-profit lending and financial services for Christian individuals, organizations and churches.

Based in Fresno, California with regional offices and clients across the nation, Strongtower Financial has served thousands of churches and investors. They are a leading financial services provider, with experienced financial advisors and lending professionals in the industry with a heart for what matters most.