Stories

The ministries that move when expertise shows up.

These are the ministries IE Barnabas comes alongside. Each story is a marketplace leader matched to a specific operational challenge. Not a check.

The room

Who we're partnered with.

A few of the ministries that have presented at our gatherings. The list rotates, and we come alongside many more than you'll see here.

Operations
City Net
Homeless-services agency building a Riverside County network; sought strategic partnerships, hiring help, and innovative-housing assistance.
Operations
CarePortal
★ Ministry of the Year · 2023
National care-sharing platform connecting churches to the vetted needs of foster and at-risk children; sought champions, church enrollments, and growth across Southern California.
Strategy
Young Life
Introduces adolescents to Jesus through relationships, clubs, and camps; sought Inland Empire awareness, volunteers, and local committee members.
Operations
Hands & Feet Ministries
Outreach ministry housing elderly women and children, seeking facility help, donor acquisition, and a volunteer coordinator.
Operations
The Riverbank Organization
Meets urgent physical needs for families in crisis from a dedicated warehouse; sought church connections, volunteers, and business partnerships.
Strategy
4G3
Middle East discipleship equipping persecuted and displaced Christian leaders; sought high-impact giving, marketplace influence, and business expertise.
Finance
International Christian Adoptions
Adoption, foster care, counseling, and refugee resettlement; sought donor development, an advocacy cohort, and board expansion.
Operations
Mile High Pines
★ Ministry of the Year · 2024
Christian camp and retreat ministry rebuilding post-pandemic — sought staffing partnerships, church connections, and an accessible-facility plan.
Strategy
Rescue A Generation
★ Ministry of the Year · 2025
Transformational coaching for at-risk youth on school campuses; sought a replicable program manual and org and HR development to scale.
Marketing
The Oikos Movement
Equips pastors and believers to live out the Great Commission; sought ambassadors, marketing services, and material translation.
Impact stories

What partnership 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.

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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.

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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.

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Leadership · Mission to Children

Staffing for growth, not just openings.

Through the Executive Directors Forum and a one-on-one coaching connection, Byron reframed how he hires — a mindset shift that still guides how Mission to Children builds its team today.

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Generosity that stops at a check leaves the work undone.

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