Guests seated at round tables in a timber lodge hall during a Barnabas Group gathering, a cross and Barnabas banner on the far wall
For marketplace leaders · Inland Empire

Your boardroom skills weren't built for a checkbook.

We've sat in your chair. We know what your day actually contains — and what your expertise is actually worth to a ministry that's trying to scale.

The gap

Most ministries don't need more donors.
They need partners.

Ministries we partner with are full to the brim — the same way every growing organization is. The bottleneck isn't budget. It's strategy. Operations. Finance. Technology. The work that decides whether a mission scales or stalls is exactly the work marketplace careers are built around.

"The hardest hires for a ministry are the people you've already spent thirty years becoming."

The plan

Three steps. Fifteen minutes to start.

01
A 15 minute conversation.
You, us, and a short call about the work you've done and where you'd want to help. No pitch, no decks — we listen.
02
A real-world match.
We connect you to a ministry where a specific operational gap maps to what you've spent your career solving. Usually one of around twenty open needs.
03
Contribution on your terms.
A project, an advisory engagement, a board seat, or a hand-off note that unlocks something stuck. We pace the partnership to your bandwidth.
Since 2012 · 200+ leaders · 150+ ministries

What it 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.

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.

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.

From a partner

“They didn't rush to give opinions or quick fixes. They listened carefully, asked thoughtful questions, and helped us identify the true issues before guiding us toward wise solutions. Their counsel has strengthened our ministry in ways that finances alone never could. For ministries like ours, the Barnabas Group is not simply an organization that offers support. They become partners in the Gospel.”

Colleen MyersExecutive Director, Engage To Go Ministries
Come see it first

Our quarterly gathering. Walk through the room. Hear from a partner. Decide for yourself.

09.02
2026
Quarterly Gathering · Wed, Sep 2
Q3 2026 Gathering
Top Golf Ontario · Ontario · 12:00 AM — 3:15 AM
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The best thing I did for that ministry wasn't a donation.

Recent notes & resources

Field notes for marketplace leaders.

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Beyond the Balance Sheet: The New ROI for Christian Leaders

Beyond the Balance Sheet: The New ROI for Christian Leaders

For generations, success was measured in margins and market share. A new conversation among Christian leaders is reframing the metric — a return measured in lives changed and communities restored.

July 19, 2025 · 2 min
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What happens next

Tell us what you've built — we'll tell you where it could matter.

Fifteen minutes with someone who's been in your chair. No pitch, no commitment — just a conversation about your work and the ministries we'd match it to.

Let's talk