For the fifteenth year as a sponsor, we welcome HH Architects. For 53 years, HH Architects has had the privilege of working with and planning campuses for many of the fastest-growing and top-attended churches and private Christian schools across America.

HH Architects has worked with a broad range of churches and schools on a wide variety of facilities, from first-unit buildings to 7,000+ seat Worship Centers, providing Strategic Positioning, Master Planning, Architectural, and Interior Design services for nearly all aspects of religious facility projects.

For the fifteenth 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.”

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

For over 50 years, the firm has served churches and denominations, domestic and international outreach organizations, universities and seminaries, foundations, media ministries, rescue missions, 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.

We welcome for the tenth 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.

We welcome for the ninth 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.

For the eighth 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 staff, 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 eighth 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).

For the seventh 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.

We welcome Missional Marketing for the sixth 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 fifth 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 Enviropop for the first year. They transform ordinary environments into memorable spaces with their innovative wayfinding solutions, branded environmental designs, monument signs, Interior Design, and much more.

Blending imagination with expert fabrication and installation, the Enviropop team provides stunning solutions that move people intuitively through your space, magnify your story, and advance your mission every step of the way.

For the fourteenth 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.

For the second year, we welcome Pastoral 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.

For the second year, we welcome Soul Shepherding, led by Dr’s Bill and Kristi Gaultiere. Since 2009 they’ve been equipping pastors and leaders to go deeper with Jesus in emotional health and loving leadership. Their Healthy Pastor Care program offers retreats, spiritual, direction, and leadership coaching at a discount.

We welcome GuideStone as a sponsor for the nineteenth year. Guidestone® is one of the leading providers of retirement, property and casualty, medical, life and disability coverage, investment management and executive planning services to the evangelical Christian community. For more than 100 years, they have worked to enhance the financial security of those they serve—which today includes more than 200,000 individuals and 36,000 churches, mission-sending agencies, hospitals, educational institutions and related ministries across the globe.

For the twelfth year, we welcome Slingshot Group. Slingshot Group builds remarkable teams through staffing and coaching. Founded in 2007, Slingshot’s team of ministry practitioners is what sets them apart. Every one of Slingshot Group’s 60+ nationwide associates has ministry experience. They know exactly what it takes to hire and develop great staff for the local church and ministry-minded nonprofits.

We welcome Cass Bank for the seventh 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.