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 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.
Three steps to getting help.
What ministry leaders say.
“Serving as an Executive Director can feel isolating, but the Barnabas Group Inland Empire has changed that for me. The Executive Directors Forum has been a gift — a space to connect with other Christ-centered ministry leaders who want real change. Learning from their pitfalls, celebrations, and strategies reminds me I'm not alone in this work. Each quarterly gathering challenges my thinking, sharpens my strategy, and reveals blind spots I couldn't see on my own. The convenings have been equally valuable: cutting-edge ministry ideas, relationships with business leaders across the Inland Empire, and consulting that has made us far more strategic. In three years my leadership has grown, and that growth has directly shaped Lobiko — our effectiveness in serving program partners has expanded from about 7,000 lives to more than 15,000 today. I highly recommend the Barnabas Group to any leader looking to grow, open new doors, and find genuine fellowship with Christ-centered people.”
“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.”
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.
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.
