Marketplace expertise, deployed where it matters.
We're a circle of marketplace leaders matching the expertise inside our peers to the operating challenges inside ministries we believe in.
The gap was obvious.
Ministry leaders kept describing the same problem: the people they most needed weren't on their org chart. Strategy. Finance. Operations. Technology. The work that decides whether a mission grows or stalls is the work marketplace careers are built around.
The same week, marketplace leaders were telling us something else: they'd been giving for years, and giving felt thin. They had more to offer than money. They wanted somewhere to put it. Nobody was making the match.
Barnabas isn't a person at the front of the room. It's the circle of partners and ministries doing the actual work.
What we believe.
Skills over funds.
Match, don't volunteer.
Marketplace is ministry.
The work isn't ours. It's theirs.
The marketplace partners who show up. The ministries that put them to work. Two voices from inside the circle.
“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.”
“I presented at a Barnabas Group Dinner and asked for help to start a localized advisory board — to build relationships with local pastors and churches so we could better realize our mission. My Advisory Board has been going strong for almost three years now. It has helped us hire three new area directors and has been a rock of wisdom and prayer support. Barnabas played a role in accomplishing our goal.”
The people behind the circle.
The board and committee leads who steward the mission, set direction, and keep the circle accountable.
What we're not.
Marketplace leaders sometimes expect one of these and find we're a different animal. Better to be clear now.
The years you've built don't retire with you.
Now you know who we are. Come see the work.
Fifteen minutes with someone already in the circle. No pitch, no obligation. Just a conversation about what you've built and where it could land.
