Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

20 years as a sponsor

We want to thank Generis for their twentieth year as a sponsor. Brad Leeper has served in church leadership roles and has real-life experience to offer far beyond that of most industry consultants.

Generis is a church consulting firm passionate about helping ministries of all sizes bridge the gap between vision and resources by engaging the hearts of givers and accelerating generosity. Generis has served over 13,500 churches, helping them raise more than $13.5 billion for Kingdom expansion.

14 years as a sponsor

For the fourteenth year, we welcome Middlebrook | Group, The Church Lawyers. They are dedicated to providing outstanding and practical legal services to churches, ministries, and schools of all sizes across the nation with their Church Lawyers Team program. Their team of attorneys and paralegals have transactional, tax and litigation experience and are attuned to the unique legal needs specific to religious nonprofits.

They handle everything from a new church-plant to complex and contested litigation matters, and provide services to organizations of all sizes. “Whether you are just starting out and want the proper foundation, need to stay on track and legally compliant or require an advocate in the courtroom, we are on your legal team.”

8 years as a sponsor

We welcome for the eighth year, Batts Morrison Wales & Lee. Batts Morrison Wales & Lee (BMWL) is a national CPA firm exclusively serving churches, ministries, and other nonprofit organizations through audit & assurance, tax, and strategic advisory services. BMWL understands that you want to protect the financial health and reputation of your church. Their service model is built around that very idea.

BMWL will help your church protect your mission, maintain strong donor trust and confidence, produce highly effective financial reports, strategically budget for improved financial condition, improve overall risk management, maximize tax exemption, protect your exempt status, provide board member governance orientation and training, simplify your financial administration, and be better informed. Please visit nonprofitcpa.com to learn more.

7 years as a sponsor

For the seventh year, we welcome Vanderbloemen Search Group. Vanderbloemen helps churches and ministries build great teams by finding their key staff. Vanderbloemen is an industry leader in executive search for the church, having worked with ministries in nearly every state and several countries. God has uniquely called and positioned your church to do what only you can do, and having the right team members in the right roles is vital to fulfilling that calling.

From finding the right worship leaders to children’s ministers and senior pastors, Vanderbloemen helps discover your church’s DNA and then conducts a nationwide search for whom God is calling to your church. Whether you’re planning your next hire, reorganizing your staff, analyzing your compensation structure, or need help with succession planning, build your best ministry team with Vanderbloemen.

6 years as a sponsor

For the sixth year, we welcome Thrivent Church Financing. For more than 115 years, Thrivent Church Financing has provided ministries with flexible financing solutions coupled with dedicated service. In our history, we have helped over 6,000 Christian churches achieve their missions, grow their ministries and meet their financial stewardship through mortgage loans for refinancing, new construction, renovation or capital improvement.

Thrivent Church Financing is part of Thrivent, a membership-owned fraternal benefit society of Christians and a holistic financial services organization that helps guide individuals, churches and non-profits to make the most of all God has given them. Known for our financial strength and stability, as well as our approach to helping Christians connect their financial decisions with their faith, Thrivent blends faith, finances and generosity to improve lives and build stronger families and communities.

2 years as a sponsor

For the second year, we welcome Tithely. Tithely provides the tools you need to engage with your church online, stay connected, increase generosity, and simplify the lives of your staff.

With tools like text and email messaging, custom church apps and websites, church management software, digital giving, and so much more… it’s no wonder nearly 30,000 churches in 50 countries trust Tithely to help run their church. Learn more at tithely.com

2 years as a sponsor

We welcome MinistrySafe as a sponsor for the second year. Gregory Love and Kimberlee Norris have a nationwide sexual abuse litigation practice representing victims of sexual abuse throughout the country. In addition, Love & Norris provide consulting services to secular and ministry organizations providing services to children. Representative clients include the United States Olympic Committee, Awana International, Church of the Nazarene, the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, Gladney Center for Adoption, and many church and para-church schools, camps and ministries. Love and Norris serve as directors of MinistrySafe, a consulting organization designed to help churches, Christian ministries and camps understand and address child safety risks related to sexual abuse. For additional information, go to MinistrySafe.com.

Gold Sponsors

13 years as a sponsor

For the thirteenth year, we welcome CapinCrouse. As a national full-service CPA and consulting firm devoted to serving nonprofit organizations, CapinCrouse provides professional solutions to organizations whose outcomes are measured in lives changed.

Since 1972, the firm has served domestic and international outreach organizations, universities and seminaries, foundations, media ministries, rescue missions, relief and development organizations, churches and denominations, and many others by providing support in the key areas of financial integrity and security. With a network of offices across the nation, CapinCrouse has the resources of a large firm and the personal touch of a local firm. CapinCrouse is an independent member of the BDO Alliance USA. Learn more at CapinCrouse.com

First year as a sponsor

For the first year, we welcome Parkhill. The story began in 1945, when three friends took it upon themselves to help West Texas rebuild and recover following World War II. We have been creating inventive, relevant built environments together ever since. This is at the heart of what we do and who we are. We are Building Community and sustaining relationships. For 77 years, our communities have relied on us to provide innovative, collaborative, and relevant solutions for design services. Driven by a passion for Building Community, Parkhill partners with numerous faith-based organizations to create inspiring, dynamic, and functional facilities. We achieve this by providing strategic planning, master planning, architecture, interior design, and engineering services for all gathering spaces, including worship, administration, education, and fellowship.

Silver Sponsors

11 years as a sponsor

We welcome Christianity Today’s ChurchLaw&Tax for the eleventh year. ChurchLaw&Tax, founded in the late 1980s by attorney Richard Hammar and James Cobble, publishes award-winning print and digital content, plus provides webinars, training, and a podcast that help church leaders lead their ministries with confidence.

Hammar, ChurchLaw&Tax’s senior editor, is a Harvard Law School graduate, CPA, and author of more than 100 books (including the annual Church & Clergy Tax Guide; Pastor, Church & Law, Fifth Edition; and Church Governance). He is joined by Matthew Branaugh, who has served as ChurchLaw&Tax’s content editor since 2008 and became an attorney in 2020. ChurchLaw&Tax is also led by an esteemed group of senior editorial advisors, including CPA Michael Batts, attorney and CPA Frank Sommerville, attorney Erika Cole, and CPAs Elaine Sommerville and Vonna Laue, as well as several distinguished advisors-at-large, including attorneys Sally Wagenmaker and Theresa Sidebotham, executive pastors Nicholas Smith and Tim Samuel, and XPastor’s founder, David Fletcher.

6 years as a sponsor

We welcome Cass Bank for the sixth year. The Word says, Where there is no counsel, the people fall. But in the multitude of counselors there is safety (Proverbs 11:14). Cass Bank provides counsel to churches and ministries nationwide in the realm of financing and day-to-day banking needs. Our Kingdom-oriented services also include ministry credit cards, an online generosity platform called TouchPoint Giving and a best-in-class church management software solution called Touchpoint. At Cass, our great desire is to help churches thrive through sound counsel and tailored financial solutions in a highly relational context.

4 years as a sponsor

For the fourth year, we welcome BELAY, the incredible organization revolutionizing productivity with their virtual assistant, bookkeeping, social media manager, and website specialist services for growing churches. Their first client was a pastor, so their ministry-minded, servant-hearted team knows how to help busy pastors and their growing churches with modern staffing that grows their teams without having to do everything on their own. Get the right help for your church so you can focus on your Kingdom work—and let BELAY handle the rest.

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