We want to thank Brad Leeper of Ministry Essentials for his twenty-three years as a sponsor. Brad brings more than 30 years of experience in financial stewardship, helping churches and nonprofits build healthy, enduring cultures of generosity. As a Principal with Ministry Essentials, he serves alongside leaders to strengthen their stewardship approach and advance their God-given mission.

Brad is known for his ability to bring clarity in seasons of growth, transition, and financial complexity. Working with churches of all sizes across the country, he helps align vision, strategy, and resources in a way that inspires generosity and fuels long-term impact. His approach integrates both the spiritual and practical dimensions of stewardship, equipping leaders to move forward with confidence and purpose.

For the seventeenth year, we welcome Middlebrook | Group, The Church Lawyers. When ministry meets legal complexity, The Church Lawyers are in your corner. Exclusively dedicated to serving churches, ministries, and nonprofit organizations, the firm brings specialized legal expertise that general practice firms simply can’t match. From church formation and governance to employment law, property matters, IRS compliance, crisis management, and more—their comprehensive counsel covers every dimension of ministry life. No legal concern is too big or too small.

With affordable services and a membership program offering discounted legal rates, quality legal protection is accessible to ministries of every size. Visit TheChurchLawyers.com for more information and numerous free resources tailored to helping your church or ministry stay informed and on the right track.

For the sixteenth year, we welcome CRI CapinCrouse. As a national full-service accounting and advisory practice exclusively serving churches and other nonprofit organizations, CRI CapinCrouse provides professional solutions to organizations whose outcomes are measured in lives changed. For over 50 years, the firm has served churches, denominations, higher education institutions, and other nonprofit organizations by providing support in the key areas of financial integrity and security.

CapinCrouse is a division of Carr, Riggs & Ingram, a nationally ranked accounting and advisory firm. With a network of offices across the nation, CRI CapinCrouse combines the resources of a large firm with the personal touch of a local firm. Discover more at capincrouse.com.

We welcome for the twelfth year, Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company. Brotherhood Mutual is a national property and casualty insurance company with a heart for helping Christian ministries thrive. As a leader in the industry, Brotherhood Mutual provides innovative insurance coverage and risk management resources, specifically designed for ministries, to help them operate safely and effectively.

The company looks toward the future, working with and anticipating the unique needs of more than 65,000 churches, Christian schools, colleges, camps, missions, non-profits, and related ministries. Additionally, Brotherhood Mutual provides access to payroll and tax filing services, employee health benefits, commercial auto insurance, worker’s compensation insurance, and mission travel insurance.

For the tenth year, we welcome Vanderbloemen Search Group. Vanderbloemen specializes in finding key staff members, from worship leaders to family ministers to senior pastors. They go beyond simply filling open roles. They take the time to understand your church’s unique DNA and conduct nationwide searches to find the individuals God has called to serve your community. With experience completing over 2,500 executive searches with ministries all across the country and internationally, Vanderbloemen is an industry leader in executive search for the church.

In addition, Vanderbloemen understands that finding the right people is just the first step. They also offer a suite of solutions designed to help you develop and retain your staff. Their services include diversity, and succession consulting, leadership coaching, culture assessments, compensation reports, and their newest tool, the Vander Index, based on the book Be the Unicorn: 12 data-driven traits that separate the best leaders from the rest. 

For the ninth 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.

For the ninth year, we welcome Visioneering Studios. They are the only nationally-licensed, faith-based design-build firm that specializes in commercial, nonprofit and worship environments. Visioneering is not just developers, designers, architects, and builders—they are storytellers. They come alongside partners, who lead movements and organizations that have unique stories crafted by a unique people, place, and passion, to be trusted stewards of their story and space.

Visioneering’s beliefs positively impact the relational nature and integrity of their work. Visioneering Studios’ “look to launch” services include: Real Estate and Development Advisory Services (Visioneering Studios Real Estate), Master Planning, Architecture and Interior Design (Visioneering Studios Architecture), National Construction and Construction Services (Visioneering Studios Construction).

We welcome Missional Marketing for the eighth year. Missional Marketing is a church-focused agency that brings a variety of communications solutions. Our ultimate goal is to help every church we partner with bring people to the church so they may hear the Good News. The strategy we use is to leverage content to capture attention, engage, educate, and persuade people to take action. The solutions we bring revolve around offering: Communications consulting and outsourcing (yes, we get hired to be your Communications Director); Communications Project Management; Social Media strategy and management; Digital advertising with Google, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube; Website building and SEO for websites, Local (your church building), and YouTube; Leveraging the content that you create and the content we have created; Implement our sermon flywheel to connect with more people.

We welcome Financial Planning Ministry for the seventh year. FPM is a trusted name in estate planning and strategic planned giving. Since 1982 more than 50,000 families and individuals have benefitted from their unique ministry efforts. They provide turnkey solutions for planned giving to over 160 ministry partners across the country.

Through the promotion of Christ-centered stewardship and estate planning, millions of dollars have been saved from probate while directing over $3 billion to Christian charities worldwide.

We welcome MinistrySafe as a sponsor for the fifth 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 ministry organizations providing services to children. Representative clients include the United States Olympic Committee, Awana International, Church of the Nazarene, Trail Life USA, Baptist State Conventions and hundreds of church and para-church schools, camps and ministries. Love and Norris serve as directors of MinistrySafe, a consulting organization designed to help churches, ministries and camps understand and address the risk of child sexual abuse.

We welcome StudioC for the third year. Their goal is to help you engage personally to disciple better. They unleash the full potential of your ChMS & your app. Say hello to the Member Engagement Solution (MES): Leverage hyper-personalized communication, honoring the place and pace of each individual and activating their next steps of discipleship.

We welcome ChurchWay Advisors for the third year. ChurchWay Advisors helps churches and their leaders make good decisions. Our advisors walk alongside you as you contemplate how to practically execute on the vision God has given you. Whether your challenges are financial, HR, or operational in nature, or are simply a new opportunity or obstacle you have not yet encountered, we help you clarify the issue, determine a path forward, and achieve your desired outcome. When working with us, you can expect truth-telling, clarity, a faith-based perspective, business expertise, empowerment, and confidentiality. Your success is our success!

For the sixteenth year, we welcome Clark. Clark is the leading provider of custom audio, video, lighting (AVL) solutions for churches. Clark’s mission is to help you communicate your story, personally connect with your audience and inspire change.

Twenty years of experience enables Clark to partner with your organization, transforming your environment into a space that uniquely reflects your core values.

We welcome BMO for the fourth year. BMO’s Religious Institution Banking division is a leader in delivering financial solutions to America’s growing communities of faith. As one of the nation’s largest religious lenders, we have a proven track record of providing the resources and expertise faith-based nonprofits need to broaden their ministries and deepen their impact. And with our dedicated team’s consultative, value-added approach, we can deliver smart and comprehensive banking solutions that help drive your mission forward.

For the fourth year, we welcome Ministry Transitions. When a church faces the difficult decision to let a pastor or ministry leader go, the risk of hurt and misunderstanding can escalate significantly. Pastoral Transitions serves ministry leadership by offering compassionate care for departing leaders and their families. They provide a comprehensive roadmap to navigate ministry terminations and transitions gracefully, focusing on career guidance, coaching, and counseling. Their mission is to help outgoing leaders find their next path, upholding the church’s core mission to multiply unity, not divide, even in times of change.

We welcome GuideStone as a sponsor for the twenty-first year. GuideStone provides churches, ministries, faith-aligned institutions and Christian households with financial services and benefit solutions that support shared biblical values—equipping believers to start well, stay well and finish well. For more than 100 years, GuideStone has helped enhance the financial security and resilience of those who serve the Lord, which today includes more than 270,000 members and 23,000 ministry partners.

We welcome for the tenth year Portable Church®. For more than 25 years, Portable Church® has helped thousands of churches launch strong and thrive in a mobile setting. We design custom solutions that fit each budget, vision, and venue.

Everything you need to launch a mobile church—an experiential worship space, engaging kids ministry areas, inviting welcome spaces, timesaving storage cases, etc.—all in a system refined to make it fast and easy for the weekly volunteer teams.