MAX Vision and Mission

Our vision is creating and sustaining wholeness. What exactly does that mean for an insurance company? Well, the term wholeness refers to being complete, fulfilled and capable of living a healthy, happy, balanced life. At MAX, we believe the security and protections we provide through our products, services and Mutual Aid Ministries can help our members protect, create and sustain wholeness in their personal and professional lives.

Our mission states that we live out our vision of wholeness by preserving and restoring property, lives and communities through fair, faithful and socially responsible insurance programs, and Mutual Aid Ministries. We stand alongside our members as they create, build and sustain a life for themselves and their families. To do this, we educate our members to protect and preserve what they have through careful maintenance and safety precautions, and when there is a loss, we partner with them to help replace and restore wholeness in their lives. In extreme cases of loss or financial calamity, our unique Mutual Aid Ministries program is there to “Care Beyond the Contract”.

Are you a member of MAX yet? Contact us today and we’ll be happy to tell you more about how we live out our vision and mission.

MAX Mindfulness: Let Go of the Externals

by David Wine, President & CEO

What mindfulness really comes down to is our ability and willingness to step outside of our usual daily patterns and world.  It is moving from the externals we usually feel (telephones; email; meetings; conversations; tasks; demands; etc.) to the inner part of ourselves where we find peace and relieve the stresses of the externals.  I like to say it feels divine and leads to the Divine!

Moving to this place is easy and hard at the same time.  It requires only one thing from us- our willingness to take a few minutes (just a couple!) from time to time in our daily routines and move to a state of non-doing.  That is why mindfulness teaches us breathing techniques or other things I have shared in my past writings.  It is really for one goal- to help us get to a place of inner stillness and non-doing for brief periods in our day.  It is at those times, when we reach inner stillness and let go of the externals, that we can find peace, calm, and relaxation.  We get refocused and recharged.

It is also moving to the present moment.  Our minds love to worry about the future and spend time regretting the past.  Those fears and regrets sneak up on us all the time in both our conscious and subconscious.  Letting go for just two minutes, doing nothing, trying to think nothing, is one of the most restful and relaxing times we can have and it is one of the greatest favors we can do for our physical, mental and emotional wellness.  And that is wholeness!  At MAX, when our team creates wholeness for ourselves, that in turn creates wholeness throughout the company, which creates even more wholeness as our team interacts with each other and our agents, brokers, and members in a relaxed, loving, affirming way.

When you step out of this world it creates a new pattern and this new pattern is called mindfulness.  So I encourage you to take some time to do nothing in the coming week!  In doing nothing, you are doing something really important – for yourself!

Dave WineDavid Wine

David is the President and CEO of the MAX enterprise, having served in that capacity since its formation in 2001.   He has forty plus years of  leadership experience in the business and faith-based worlds, being an ordained minister, having been elected to the highest position in his denomination,  and receiving numerous awards and recognition for his leadership in the insurance industry. He currently serves on numerous boards in the church and insurance sectors.  His hobbies include hiking, biking, skiing and snowshoeing as well as being an avid reader.  David and his wife, Sharon, have three daughters, a son, and four grandchildren.

MAX Mindfulness: Fear or Love

by David Wine, President & CEO

I have shared before that there are really just two emotions in our world – fear or love.  And that impacts everything in our lives in big, big ways!  We perceive our world and our relationships through whatever emotion we are feeling at the time.  Lead with love and we trust others, feel their support, and understand our relationship with them in helpful, healthy ways.  Lead with fear, and we distrust others, feel division and a sense that someone is “out to get us”, and our relationships can easily fall apart.  This is as true of team life in businesses as it is with our families and other relationships.  That is why I write on mindfulness – at MAX we are about personal growth (as one of our values)- but it is also good for MAX when our team is built on trust and supportive relationships.  It leads to a productive and fun environment.  (And, I am so very appreciative of the ways I see this happening so often at MAX!).

I could write a tome on this subject – thankfully for you, I won’t!   So I’ll make this very simple and tie it to our mindfulness theme.  One of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves is to watch our emotions and our feelings.  And through that mindful attention, we can begin to ask ourselves a very important question, “Am I right now leading with love or leading with fear?”  “Am I leading with trust or distrust?”  “Am I accepting responsibility for my own life and results (loving ourselves) or am I blaming outside people and externals (disliking ourselves)?”

The first step, always the hardest one, in leading with love is recognizing all those times when we are not and paying attention to the emotions that are driving perceptions of ourselves, others and our world.  That is why mindfulness is so important to our personal growth and development.  We have to pay attention to our emotions and feelings to get a sense of how responsible we really are for what we are creating in our lives.  If indeed we are our thoughts, we are, indeed, the only ones who can change them.  Leading with love leads to wholeness! Leading with fear fragments!  Hmmm….that sounds like a MAX theme!

Dave WineDavid Wine

David is the President and CEO of the MAX enterprise, having served in that capacity since its formation in 2001.   He has forty plus years of  leadership experience in the business and faith-based worlds, being an ordained minister, having been elected to the highest position in his denomination,  and receiving numerous awards and recognition for his leadership in the insurance industry. He currently serves on numerous boards in the church and insurance sectors.  His hobbies include hiking, biking, skiing and snowshoeing as well as being an avid reader.  David and his wife, Sharon, have three daughters, a son, and four grandchildren.

MAX Provides Grant to Help Purchase New Cancer Assistance Relief (CAR) Van

(Lexington, MO) — Area cancer patients will have a more reliable and comfortable ride to their out-of-town medical appointments, thanks to a $6,000 grant from MutualAid eXchange (MAX) Insurance and its Mutual Aid Ministries program.

The funds will help purchase a new, lower-mileage van for the Cancer Assistance Relief program (C.A.R.).  In conjunction with Trinity United Church of Christ, C.A.R. provides free transportation to cancer patients living in the 64067 zip code who need rides to their medical appointments in Greater Kansas City or other distant cities.   The current C.A.R. van has been on the road since 2011, averaging nearly 1,200 miles a month.  Volunteer drivers took local residents on 138 round trips in 2015 alone.

“We want to replace the current van in order to avoid potential breakdowns with ill patients on board,” said Betty Weddle of Letzig Group, Inc., and a founder of C.A.R.  “This grant will go a long way toward our goal.”  Letzig Group represents MAX in Lexington and surrounding areas.  Mrs. Weddle helped organize C.A.R. in memory of her husband, Bill Schwermer, who died of cancer in 1987.check presentation

“MAX is a fair, faithful and socially responsible insurance company that tries to give back in the communities we serve.  We are pleased and honored to help the residents of Lexington and the C.A.R. program with this grant,” said Dave Wine, CEO of MAX Insurance.  “Our Mutual Aid Ministries program provides grants to individuals in need and community programs that address the needs of their residents.  When Betty Weddle told us about the C.A.R. program we were more than happy to lend our support.  It’s a great service that helps many families at a critical time in their lives.”

For more about MAX and its unique Mutual Aid Ministries program visit www.MAXInsurance.com.

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MAX Member Care Center is Now Live

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