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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
“The Barnabas Group has transformed nearly every aspect of my leadership journey at Oak Valley College. Connectivity to other Christian leaders is hard to find, and Barnabas tees it up—seeing business leaders live out their faith is nothing short of the Living Word. Every month I connect with a Partner to bounce ideas off, test a concept, or tap their network to keep improving—especially in strategic planning. Partners may not know the day-to-day challenges Oak Valley faces, but their insights bring immeasurable wisdom to my decisions. Barnabas also gives ministry leaders powerful peer engagement: we rarely share the same space, yet face similar challenges—personnel, operations, fundraising, growth—and every well-vetted ministry helps me see resources and opportunities in new ways, as I trust mine does for them. There is nothing like it—iron sharpening iron. My engagement with Barnabas has enabled Oak Valley College to grow, mature, and develop in ways that carry the ministry forward.”
The best thing I did for that ministry wasn't a donation.
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.
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.
