Guests seated at round tables in a timber lodge hall during a Barnabas Group gathering, a cross and Barnabas banner on the far wall
For marketplace leaders · Inland Empire

Your boardroom skills weren't built for a checkbook.

We've sat in your chair. We know what your day actually contains — and what your expertise is actually worth to a ministry that's trying to scale.

The gap

Most ministries don't need more donors.
They need partners.

Ministries we partner with are full to the brim — the same way every growing organization is. The bottleneck isn't budget. It's strategy. Operations. Finance. Technology. The work that decides whether a mission scales or stalls is exactly the work marketplace careers are built around.

"The hardest hires for a ministry are the people you've already spent thirty years becoming."

The plan

Three steps. Fifteen minutes to start.

01
A 15 minute conversation.
You, us, and a short call about the work you've done and where you'd want to help. No pitch, no decks — we listen.
02
A real-world match.
We connect you to a ministry where a specific operational gap maps to what you've spent your career solving. Usually one of around twenty open needs.
03
Contribution on your terms.
A project, an advisory engagement, a board seat, or a hand-off note that unlocks something stuck. We pace the partnership to your bandwidth.
Since 2012 · 200+ leaders · 150+ ministries

What it has looked like.

Strategy · Love Life
★ Ministry of the Year · 2026

An advisory board that's still going strong.

Shon presented at a Barnabas dinner asking for help starting a localized advisory board. Nearly three years on, it has helped hire three new area directors and become a rock of wisdom and prayer.

Strategy · Engage to Go Ministries

Counsel that finances alone couldn't buy.

Front-lines festival outreach got more than volunteers — CPAs, attorneys, and business leaders sat with the team, asked hard questions, and helped a new director lead with confidence.

Technology · Guidelines International

Choosing constraints as the ministry scaled.

After its footprint more than doubled, Guidelines worked with Barnabas partners on managing 100+ global initiatives — and left with the wisdom that the biggest danger to growth is complexity.

From a partner

“IE Barnabas has been a transformative growth engine for both me personally and Mission to Children — through the Executive Directors forum and hands-on coaching connections, it has sharpened my leadership, deepened my integrity, and sent ripples of that growth out into every field God has entrusted to our ministry.”

Byron GarmoPresident & CEO, Mission to Children
Come see it first

Our quarterly gathering. Walk through the room. Hear from a partner. Decide for yourself.

09.02
2026
Quarterly Gathering · Wed, Sep 2
Q3 2026 Gathering
Top Golf Ontario · Ontario · 12:00 AM — 3:15 AM
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The best thing I did for that ministry wasn't a donation.

Recent notes & resources

Field notes for marketplace leaders.

All notes
Beyond the Balance Sheet: The New ROI for Christian Leaders

Beyond the Balance Sheet: The New ROI for Christian Leaders

For generations, success was measured in margins and market share. A new conversation among Christian leaders is reframing the metric — a return measured in lives changed and communities restored.

July 19, 2025 · 2 min
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What happens next

Tell us what you've built — we'll tell you where it could matter.

Fifteen minutes with someone who's been in your chair. No pitch, no commitment — just a conversation about your work and the ministries we'd match it to.

Let's talk