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Bible/Scripture Placement

Audio Scripture Ministries, Holland, MI
Audio Scripture Ministries exists to facilitate the recording and distribution of God's word on audio, using any appropriate player and focusing on missionaries and national ministries, so the non-reading world might hear of God's love through Jesus Christ.
 
Bible League, Chicago, IL
The Bible League's ministry goes beyond providing the Scriptures people need. We make sure those Scriptures are used for evangelism, discipleship, and church growth.
 
Mission India, Grand Rapids, MI
Mission India assists the India church to plant reproducing churches in a systematic, measurable way, through prayers, training, scripture placement, and ministry partnerships.
 
Talking Bibles International, Escondido, CA
To serve the Lord Jesus Christ by producing and preserving single-voice audio recordings of translated Scriptures in hundreds of languages to make these recordings available in Talking Bibles for people around the world who cannot read.
 
 
Category: Broadcast and Publishing Ministries
Back to God Ministries International, Palos Heights, IL
The Back to God Ministries International's electronic media ministry utilizes radio, television, the Internet, and the printed page in nine languages to call men, women, and children to faith in Christ.
 
HCJB Global, Colorado Springs, CO
HCJB Global is making a difference in the lives of hurting people in more than 100 countries around the world. Ministering through broadcasting, healthcare and training, we are doing whatever it takes, so all may hear.
 
 
Category: Christian Camp & Conference Centers
Camp Roger, Rockford, MI
Camp Roger is a Christian camp. The camp program creates opportunities for campers to explore God's world, and provides growth-adventures which encourage and teach them to develop Christ-like relationships, to value God's creation, and most importantly, to embrace salvation and new life in Jesus Christ.
 
Cedar Lake Ministries, Cedar Lake, IN
The Cedar Lake Ministries mission is to provide a life changing environment for evangelism and spiritual growth. We do this through our camp and conference ministries.
 
Christian Reformed Conference Grounds, Grand Haven, MI
Believing that God's people need wholesome summer facilities which will promote their spiritual welfare as well as their physical health and happiness, our goal is to establish, maintain, and operate a family campgrounds where there shall be adequate facilities for religious and inspirational meetings, wholesome recreation, for young and old, along with refreshments and lodging, all in the atmosphere of Christian fellowship and communion.
 
Manitoqua Ministries, Frankfort, IL
We are a Christian camp that has three major ministries:

 Retreats - we provide a perfect place were Churches and Schools come and recharge and get closer to God.

Summer Camps

  1. Day Camp is a Christian outreach program which serves our community. We offer over 3000 spots for children to hear about Jesus Christ
  2. Our Overnight Camp program gives children an opportunity to spend a week learning and growing in their faith.
Outdoor Education - we equip participants with skills by using experiential learning, we accomplish this with hands-on activities to encourage the participants to transfer their experience back into their daily environment of school, work and play.
 
 
Category: Churches
Emmanuel Reformed Church, Paramount, CA
We believe that ministry in the diverse context of the city is an essential strategy for accomplishing the mission of the church, and that over time this will result in becoming a church of all nations.
 
Resurrection Life Church, Grandville, MI
Resurrection Life Church is an independent mega church serving suburban Grand Rapids, MI area.
 
 
Category: Colleges
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Calvin College is a comprehensive Christian liberal arts college in the Reformed tradition of historic Christianity. Through our learning we seek to be agents of renewal in the academy, church, and society. We pledge fidelity to Jesus Christ, offering our hearts and lives to do God's work in God's world.  
 
Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA
Dordt College provides an undergraduate and masters level education that is designed to help students distinguish sharply, think critically and judge wisely -- all from a biblical perspective. We believe that all of life comes under God's Lordship and maintain an institution of higher learning to further our understanding and maintenance of God's created order.
 
Kuyper College (formerly Reformed Bible College), Grand Rapids, MI
Kuyper College provides an education that assists students in their spiritual development, equips them to think and act as world-class Christians, and guides their preparation for careers in ministry or whatever professions they choose to pursue.
 
Providence Christian College, Ontario, CA
The mission of Providence Christian College as a Reformed Christian institution is to equip students to be firmly grounded in biblical truth, thoroughly educated in the liberal arts, and fully engaged in their church, their community, and the world for the glory of God and for service to humanity.
 
Russian-American Christian University, Wheaton, MD
Russian-American Christian University is a comprehensive liberal arts university grounded in historic Biblical Christianity offering Russian students an educational program which trains them to be agents of renewal and reconciliation in university, church, society and business.
 
Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
The mission of Trinity Christian College is to provide Biblically informed liberal arts education in the Reformed tradition.
 
 
Category: Denominations
Christian Reformed Church in North America , Grand Rapids, MI
The Foundation of the Christian Reformed Church in North America serves the ministries of the Christian Reformed Church. Its primary focus is projects that have a denominational impact.
 
 
Converge MidAmerica , Park Ridge, IL
Converge MidAmerica, is one of thirteen regional districts of the Converge Worldwide-Baptist General Conference in the United States. The district covers Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and the Kenosha area of Wisconsin. Founded in the Midwest, among Swedish immigrants in the mid-1800's, Converge MidAmerica churches remain committed to the strong biblical beliefs of those early immigrants, now shared by an ethnic diversity as rich as the communities in which our churches are found. It is our vision to catalyze movements of reproducing churches, reproducing the life of Christ in disciples, leaders and congregations.
 
 
Great Lakes Baptist Conference , Madison, WI
The Great Lakes Baptist Conference (GLBC), a district office of the Baptist General Conference, helps its member churches in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan minister with greater impact and effectiveness. We offer essential ministry services in church planting, church renewal and pastoral placement.
 
 
Educational Agencies / Institutes
Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies, Grand Rapids, MI
Our mission is the integration of knowledge of the creation with Biblical principles for greater stewardship of creation. Our activities include undergrad courses, internships, community outreach and international programs.
 
Christian Schools International, Grand Rapids, MI
Christian Schools International exists to advance Christian education and support schools in their task of teaching students to know God and His world and to glorify Him through obedient service.
 
Christian Schools International Foundation, Grand Rapids, MI
The Christian Schools International Foundation exists to support the work and mission of Christian Schools International.
 


 
Category: Education/Schools (listing by state)
Christian education is a cornerstone in the foundation of a young person's life. It provides the principles, guidelines and direction that contribute to a Christian lifestyle based upon God's word, the Bible. The Christian schools that are members of Barnabas Foundation are dedicated to developing committed Christians through quality education.

ARIZONA:

    Phoenix Christian School Society, Phoenix
CALIFORNIA: COLORADO:
    Denver Christian Schools, Denver
FLORIDA: ILLINOIS: INDIANA: IOWA: MASSACHUSETTS: MICHIGAN: MINNESOTA: NEW JERSEY: NEW MEXICO: NEW YORK: OHIO: SOUTH DAKOTA: VERMONT: WASHINGTON: WISCONSIN:
 
 
Category: Human Services
Bethany Christian Services, Grand Rapids, MI
Bethany Christian Services manifests the love and compassion of Jesus Christ by protecting and enhancing the lives of children and families through quality social services....
 
Calvary Rehabilitation Center, Phoenix, AZ
We believe that addiction is a disease which affects the mind, body, spirit, and emotions of a person. To this end, Calvary has chosen to center its treatment philosophy around developing the loving, nurturing spirituality that is inherent in each of us. We believe that each of our patients, with the help of God, can lead productive, substance free, creative lives, providing they seek His will daily. We believe that the spirituality of our staff and the 12-Step Alcoholics Anonymous recovery program is an integral part of Calvary.
 
 
Cary Christian Center, Inc., Cary, MS
The ministry of Cary Christian Center is to actively proclaim and demonstrate the Gospel of Jesus Christ in order to enable individuals to attain their full potential in Christ.
 
Chicago Christian Counseling Center, Palos Heights, IL
The Chicago Christian Counseling Center promotes healing and wholeness through professional counseling, consultation, and education from a Christian perspective.
Crossroad Bible Institute, Grandville, MI
Crossroad Bible Institute equips the church to disciple inmates with the Word of God, free of charge, wherever they are incarcerated. It is a personal, in-depth and long-term program that is uniquely designed to help prisoners grow dramatically in a life-transforming relationship with Jesus Christ, preparing them for successful reentry upon release.
 
Denver Diaconal Conference Foundation - DBA Foundation for Volunteers in Action, Denver, CO
Volunteers in Action assists deacons by educating them for their role and by providing opportunities for Christians to enhance the lives of people in need.  The Foundation serves to build a solid financial base for Volunteers in Action to carry out its ministry. 
 
Evangelical Child & Family Agency, Wheaton, IL
The mission of the Evangelical and Family Agency is to offer quality social services from a biblical perspective, protect and nurture abused, neglected and dependent children and strengthen the quality of life for individuals and families. Services provided include pregnancy support for women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, adoption, foster care and individual and family counseling.
 
Forgotten Man Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI.
Forgotten Man Ministries primary purpose is evangelism and discipleship among inmates in Michigan County Jails. We believe this is best accomplished by the placement of a trained and dedicate chaplain within the jail. Forgotten Man Ministries brings together inmates, chaplains, and lay workers in the study and ministry of God's Word. FMM chaplains and associate chaplains conduct daily in-house jail ministries that include Bible distribution, Biblical counseling, book carts, Bible correspondence courses, group Bible studies, and facilitate local church worship services and inmate discipleship programs.
 
 
Guiding Light Mission, Grand Rapids, MI
Guiding Light Mission ministers to the needs of the homeless and disadvantaged through spiritual, educational and vocational services.
 
Justice For All, Rock Valley, IA
JFA seeks to promote Biblical justice and reconciliation, by encouraging and equipping volunteers, empowering the poor, and partnering with other ministries that share a commitment to Christian community development.
 
Mississippi Christian Family Services, Inc., Rolling Forks, MI
Mississippi Christian Family Services is a Christian agency that serves individuals and families who have special needs because of mental, physical, and/or environmental limitations.
 
New Leaf Resources, Lansing, IL
We are a specialized ministry which promotes healthy living and intervenes in the cycle of addiction, compulsion, and dysfuntional relationships. We provide education, prevention, intervention, referral, counseling, and consultation to individuals, families, organizations, and communities.
 
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, Grand Rapids, MI
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services is called to express the healing ministry of Jesus Christ by providing behavioral health services with professional excellence, Christian integrity, and compassion.
 
Roseland Christian Ministries Center, Chicago, IL
The Roseland Christian Ministries is a comprehensive ministry for the sake of the Lord and for the sake of the people of Roseland on Chicago's South side, carried out from a Reformed perspective. We offer a range of supportive services to the community providing food, shelter and social interaction. We also offer worship and other church-related programs for all ages.
 
Sun Valley Care Development Inc., Sun Valley, CA
Our Mission and Ministry is to demonstrate the love of Christ to the underserved Hispanic immigrants of the Sun Valley, CA community through various educational, recreational and economic programs designed to help them help themselves.
 
Wedgwood Christian Services, Inc., Kentwood, MI
Wedgwood Christian Services provides an array of services to children, youth, families, and communities in need of healing and wholeness, striving always toward professional excellence, and extending God's mercy, grace, and love in a manner which points the way to Him.
 
 
Category: Programs for the Disabled
Bethshan, Palos Heights, IL
Bethshan Association is a not-for-profit Christian agency that provides an array of residential living environments for persons with developmental disabilities. Our mission is to provide for each person served the highest quality of service and support, designed to maximize his/her potential and independence, while encouraging the maximum inclusion in church and community.
 
CLC Network, Wyoming, MI
The CLC Network’s mission is inclusion for those with disabilities in all areas of life. Services include academic special education in faith-based schools (K-12), the Ready for Life Academy for young adults desiring a college experience, techniques and trainings in inclusion awareness for churches (including support for Alzheimer’s and other medical issues), and a new outreach into the home school population for parents desiring to better understand and educate their children in a home setting. 
 
Christian Opportunity Center, Pella, IA
Our purpose is to provide persons with disabilities or other special needs the opportunity to reach their potential. We integrate Christian values in teaching quality work and living skills that address the needs of the whole person.
 
Elim Christian Services, Palos Heights, IL
The individuals served at Elim Christian Services are changing the world!  Equipped at Elim to reach their full God-given potential despite their disability, the adults and children served at Elim are prepared through educational, life-skill, vocational, residential and therapeutic opportunities. Through the HOPE Packs Program, Elim's adults are blessed with steady vocational tasks by packaging food, hygiene, or school supply kits to be distributed in the United States and worldwide!
 
Hope Haven, Inc., ., Rock Valley, IA
At Hope Haven as followers of Christ we unleash the potential in people through work and life skills training so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.
 
Hope Network, Grand Rapids, MI
The mission of Hope Network is to enhance the dignity and independence of persons who have a disability and/or are disadvantaged. We believe each person is created in the image of God and therefore has intrinsic worth and dignity.
 
Roundup Fellowship, Denver, CO
Roundup Fellowship exists to serve people with developmental disabilities by recognizing their worth, affirming their ability to contribute, and striving to promote dignity in all relationships. We offer people opportunities residentially, vocationally and educationally to develop all aspects of their lives -- physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually -- through participation in the spectrum of life's activities.
 
Salem Foundation, Inc., Ontario, CA
Our goal at Salem Foundation is to provide Christian residential care and training for adults who have developmental disabilities. We strive to enhance the quality of life for those we serve by assisting and encouraging each individual to achieve her/his optimal functioning level.
 
Sierra Salem Christian Homes, Modesto, CA
Sierra Salem Christian Homes is dedicated to providing Christ-centered residential and training care to individuals in central California with developmental disabilities. The organization's mission is to provide security, support and compassionate care for developmentally disabled persons which will enable them to develop to their spiritual, emotional, intellectual, social and physical potential within a loving Christian environment.
 
 
Category: Medical Services
Luke Society, Sioux Falls, SD
The Luke Society is an interdenominational organization of Christian health and business professionals dedicated to medical missions. We support indigenous Christian health professionals who have a vision to reach their own people.
 
 
Category: Missions and Evangelism
Big Life, Naples, FL

Big Life empowers, equips, and encourages local believers in the Middle East and South Asia to reach their own people for Jesus.

www.biglifeonline.org
 
Christian Reformed Board of Home Missions,Grand Rapids, MI
Christian Reformed Home Missions provides leadership assistance for evangelism and discipleship to 47 classes and more than 1000 Christian Reformed churches in Canada and the United States.
 
Christian Reformed World Missions, Grand Rapids, MI
For over 100 years, Christian Reformed World Missions has been telling the world about Jesus. The goal of World Missions is to build the church around the world and to equip people for God's kingdom.
 
International Discipleship & Evangelization Association, Grand Rapids, MI
IDEA Ministries (International Discipleship and Evangelization Associates) serves Christian and His people by specializing in cross-cultural mission field training, service and travel programs lasting from 11 days up to 2 years. Begun in 1967 by Dick l. Van Halsema, this organization has trained over 3,200 participants from 58 denominations, and is currently led by Clark Gl. Van Halsema. IDA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation in USA, and a Registered Charity in Canada.
www.ideaministries.org
Middle East Reformed Fellowship, Inc. (MERF -- USA), Munster, IN
Middle East Reformed Fellowship -- USA is a indigenous ministry to the Muslin world proclaiming the whole Council of the Word of God by mouth and deed. We proclaim the historic Christian faith expressed in the Reformed Reformation being active in Evangelism, Broadcasting, Biblical training, Church planting and Diaconal aid.
 
Red Mesa Foundation, Rehoboth, NM
The Red Mesa Foundation is building an endowment to provide ongoing financial resources for strong Native American led Christian Ministry in Northwest New Mexico & Northeast Arizona.
www.redmesafoundation.org
 
Relief / Economic Development
A.G.C. Ltd, All God's Children, Lombard, IL
The purpose of All God's Children is sponsorship of abandoned, orphaned children primarily in third world countries. Initial efforts have been in support of a Christian children's home in Honduras, known as Hogar De Ninos Nazareth.
 
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, Grand Rapids, MI
The Christian Reformed World Relief Committee exists so that communities around the world in circumstances of injustice, poverty, or disaster will be transformed and will have their circumstances improved in sustainable ways.
 
International Aid, Inc., Spring Lake, MI
International Aid links caring people and organizations with Christian partners worldwide, changing lives through the power of compassion.
 
Partners Worldwide, Grand Rapids, MI
Showing the love of Jesus - growing jobs and providing opportunities for the unemployed poor. We want to be a part of an expanding Christian community that is shaping the future of our changing world
 
 
Category: Seminaries / Theological Education
Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI
Calvin Theological Seminary exists to serve the Christian Reformed Church in North America and wider constituencies by preparing persons for biblically faithful and contextually effective ministry of the Word and by offering Reformed Theological scholarship and counsel. It is committed to the Bible as God's Word and to the confessions of the Christian Reformed Church as faithful interpretations of that Word.
Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Taylors, SC
Guiding Light Mission ministers to the needs of the homeless and disadvantaged, providing hot meals and day room where our entire community is welcome to take respite from the streets and elements  We provide hot showers and clean beds for men.  We provide a Christ-based, holistic approach to this ministry by first showing God’s love and mercy to our community, providing service opportunities, vocational, educational, social, and recovery training.  We are also a state-licensed substance abuse center for men. 
 
Mid-America Reformed Seminary, Dyer, IN
The mission of the Mid-America Reformed Seminary is to provide the best training possible for men who are preparing for the gospel ministry in the church of Jesus Christ. One focus shapes our approach to theological education: equipping students with tools - academic and practical - that will enable them to fulfill the primary calling of a minister of the Word, to preach and teach the gospel of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary Foundation,
Grand Rapids, MI
The purpose of this corporation is to promote, solicit, accept, and manage gifts of contribution for the sole benefit of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, its students, and succeeding generations.
 
Westminster Theological Seminary (PA), Philadelphia, PA
Westminster Theological Seminary, through a Presbyterian tradition, continues to form men for the ordained ministry, to train men and women for gospel service in the church and in the world, and to serve as a center for Christian research and scholarship.
 
Westminster Theological Seminary in California (CA), Escondido, CA
Westminster Seminary California exists to glorify God through graduate theological study. Its primary focus is to prepare men for ordained ministry in Reformed and Presbyterian denominations. WSC seeks to develop in each student a balance of scholarship and Christ-like piety. WSC strives to maintain a community of Christian research and scholarship where the proper cultivation of the mind increases the devotion of the heart.
 
 
Category: Senior Citizen Residential & Health Facilities
Artesia Christian Home, Artesia, CA
The Artesia Christian Home provides Christ-like, compassionate, loving care to the elderly. We offer three distinct levels of care, Independent Living, Residential, and Skilled Care.
 
Bethany Home, Ripon, CA
Bethany Home provides for seniors in various settings from independent living to full health care. Security, support, respect, compassion, quality and sound stewardship are hallmarks of services offered with Christ-like love.
 
Christian Health Care Center, Wyckoff, NJ
Christian Health Care Center provides high-quality mental-health and elder-care services in a compassionate and loving environment consistent with the Christian principles on which the institution was founded.
 
Providence Healthcare Foundation, Tinley Park, IL
Our mission is to demonstrate God’s assurance of mercy and care for those who are aged or infirm. We do this for current and future generations by supporting health-related research and helping establish a continuum of Christian-sponsored living communities, along with programs and services, to support a quality of life for those who suffer and are in need.
 
Christian Living Communities Stewardship Fund, Littleton, CO
Christian Living Communities ministers to senior adults through a continuum of services and care that reflects Christian love, respect and compassion, and that enriches the quality and dignity of life for each individual.  We carry out this mission daily at three residential communities, with two Adult Day services and Home Care Services.  We touch the lives of more than 800 seniors and their families on a daily basis in the Southeast Denver metro area.
 
Christian Rest Home Foundation, Grand Rapids, MI
The purpose of the Christian Rest Home Foundation is to provide funds to support the ongoing benevolent capital needs of the Christian Rest Home Association. The Christian Rest Home Association operates skilled nursing, assisted living and residential care facilities, which extend the ministry of our loving Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to the elderly.
Holland Christian Home Foundation, North Haledon, NJ
The Holland Christian Home Foundation was formed in 2003 to support the philanthropic efforts of family members, friends and the community to make a lasting, positive impact on the residents of the Holland Christian Home.  The Home is a residential retirement and senior service community that melds comprehensive, state-of-the-art “LifeCare” with a warm, compassionate Christian lifestyle.
www.hollandchristianhome.org
Holland Home of Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids, MI
Holland Home of Grand Rapids is a community of Christians called by God to provide quality residential and health care services in a Christ-like manner. We provide a broad spectrum of housing and health care services designed to assist people in living fulfilling Christian lives.
 
Inland Christian Home Foundation, Inc., Ontario, CA
The foundation supports a comprehensive program of Christian retirement and health care services for the elderly.
 
Park Village Pines, Kalamazoo, MI
Christian retirement and managed health care services are the hallmark of this organization.
 
Pine Haven Christian Home Foundation, Sheboygan Falls, WI
Pine Haven Christian Home Foundation was formed to financially support the mission of Pine Haven Christian Home in providing an environment that is a Christ centered safe haven offering quality, compassionate care for seniors.