LifeInsuranceforChristians.net is the home of Anchor Cross Insurance Agency (Anchor Cross) - an independent insurance referral service with two main purposes:
(1) to educate Christians about the importance of having life insurance; and
(2) to provide Christians with access to the best life insurance policies and prices.
Mike White is owner and president of Anchor Cross and LifeInsuranceforChristians.net. He has worked in the financial services industry for 35 years, starting out as a successful life insurance agent and financial planner.
Mike's Christian and financial services roots are deep and strong. He grew up in a Christian home, majored in religion and philosophy in college, earned Masters Degrees in Theology, Religious Education, Philosophy and Counseling. He also earned a Ph.D. in Economic Philosophy and professional designations as a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) and a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC).
Ordained in the ministry, he has served as a chaplain, sold life insurance and annuities across the kitchen table, taught in traditional and non-traditional university settings, and served as an executive at major financial institutions and on the boards and management teams of national and international insurance trade associations. He is the author of two insurance-related textbooks and dozens of industry-related articles and insurance-benchmarking studies for banks.
In addition to Anchor Cross and LifeInsuranceforChristians.net, Mike currently heads bank insurance consulting and research firm Michael White Associates, LLC (MWA).
As a lay Christian, Mike serves as a steward at his church and teaches Christian education classes there and at other churches in his community. He is currently working on turning his eight-week course on "George Washington: The Faithful Father of Our Country" into a more widely sharable resource.
Mike's favorite avocation involves spending time with his family, which in addition to his wife, children and their spouses, includes an ever-widening circle of grandchildren and a brood of well-loved cats.
The Anchor Cross logo incorporates three early Christian symbols, the anchor, cross and fish.
A word play in Greek - ankura, or anchor, resembling en kurio, or "in the Lord" - the anchor was an early and prevalent Christian symbol by which Christians secretly identified one other during the Roman persecution. The anchor's origin as a Christian symbol was rooted in Hebrews 6:19: "We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain [...]."
The fish, "ichthus" in Greek, was also an early Christian symbol. The Greek letters for "ichthus" form an acrostic for "Iēsous Christos, Theou Yios, Sōtēr," meaning "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior." Several centuries later, the cross became the most common symbol of our Savior and his saving death and resurrection. Whereupon, quite naturally, the cross combined with the anchor to form the Anchor Cross.
