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.

Strategy
The Lobiko Initiative
Invests in local leaders fighting extreme poverty in D.R. Congo; sought visibility, financial planning, and board development.
Operations
City Net
Homeless-services agency building a Riverside County network; sought strategic partnerships, hiring help, and innovative-housing assistance.
Operations
Hands & Feet Ministries
Outreach ministry housing elderly women and children, seeking facility help, donor acquisition, and a volunteer coordinator.
Marketing
Living Shield Ministries
Chaplaincy ministry training chaplains for people in crisis; rebuilding after a founder's passing, it sought a marketing plan and leadership input.
Strategy
Young Life
Introduces adolescents to Jesus through relationships, clubs, and camps; sought Inland Empire awareness, volunteers, and local committee members.
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.
Operations
The Riverbank Organization
Meets urgent physical needs for families in crisis from a dedicated warehouse; sought church connections, volunteers, and business partnerships.
Marketing
ReWritten
Christ-centered mentoring for fatherless youth; sought branding, website development, and help building the right team.
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
Likewise Worship
Supports and mentors worship pastors nationally; sought connections, coaching, and church partnerships to expand into new cities.
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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Strategy · Aid The Way

Walking alongside a founder from day one.

When her plans changed and Laura launched Aid The Way from the ground up, Barnabas partners didn't step away — they offered practical guidance, hard questions, and steady encouragement through the uncertain early stages.

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Strategy · Oak Valley College

Strategic counsel, one Partner at a time.

Oak Valley's president meets monthly with a Barnabas Partner to test ideas and sharpen strategic planning, and engages well-vetted ministries facing the same challenges — personnel, fundraising, growth. That connection, hard to find elsewhere, has helped the debt-free business college grow and mature.

Visit Oak Valley College

Generosity that stops at a check leaves the work undone.

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