For ministries

The operational help your mission needs but can't afford to hire.

Barnabas connects your ministry to marketplace leaders who bring the strategy, finance, operations, and technology expertise your team needs. Not funding. Skilled people, matched to your real challenges.

How it works

How Barnabas works for ministries.

You bring the mission. We bring a marketplace leader whose career maps to your biggest operational gap. Someone who's run a budget cycle, built a technology stack, redesigned an intake process, or managed a team twice your size. The kind of person you'd hire if you could.

This isn't a volunteer program. It's a working partnership across months. Your partner gets to know your organization, your constraints, and your people. The goal is a problem solved, not a report filed.

You don't need another donor. You need someone who's done the work you're trying to figure out.
The plan

Three steps to getting help.

01
Tell us where you're stuck.
The operational challenge that keeps coming back. The hire you can't make. The project that's been sitting on your whiteboard for two years. Start there.
02
We find the right match.
A marketplace leader whose specific career maps to your specific need. Strategy to strategy. Finance to finance. We do the pairing so you don't have to recruit.
03
They show up across a quarter.
Not a one day visit. A working relationship that solves the problem you described. On your timeline, at your pace, with someone who's done this before.
From the table

What ministry leaders say.

“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.”
Shon ThornburgFounder, Love Life
“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.”
Eric BlumPresident, Oak Valley College
Recognition

Ministry of the Year.

Each year our partners name a Ministry of the Year — voted on at our Q3 gathering and announced at the Q4 gathering.

2026
Love Life
Strategy
2025
Rescue A Generation
Strategy
2024
Mile High Pines
Operations
2023
CarePortal
Operations
Ready to talk?

Tell us what your ministry needs. We'll tell you who we'd match.

A short conversation about where you're stretched thin. We'll let you know if we have someone whose career fits the challenge.

Let's talk