FRACTIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS
The Senior Leadership You Need. Without the Full-Time Hire.
Most churches and faith-based nonprofits need experienced executive, communications, and leadership development, but can't justify a full-time hire.
ministryengine embeds seasoned leaders directly into your organization. We don't just make the plan. We run it with you.
Your church or nonprofit needs experienced senior leadership in strategy, communications, or leadership development, but a full-time hire isn't the right fit right now.
So you've brought in consultants. They delivered a plan or framework. And then they left. And you were the one who had to figure out how to make it all work.
That's an exhausting and lonely place to lead from.
The real problem isn't that great leadership is out of reach. It's that the traditional model, hire full-time or bring in a consultant, leaves most organizations choosing between a budget they can't sustain and a relationship that ends when the engagement does.
You've hired consultants.
They delivered.
Then left.
We've sat where you're sitting…
We've been the Lead Pastor watching strategy stall at implementation. The Executive Pastor handed a vision document and told to run with it. The senior leader trying to develop leaders with no one dedicated to that work.
Our mininstryengine leaders have:
Literally written the book on multisite church strategy
Led communications at some of the largest, fastest-growing churches in the US, including navigating moral failures, leadership transitions, public protests, and organized influence campaigns
Served as VP of Marketing at Subsplash, managing platforms with hundreds of thousands of followers and national book campaigns
Built leadership pathways for churches and nonprofits from 500 to 10,000 people
Scaled small group systems from zero to over 600 groups
Brought Masters-level executive coaching credentials into churches and nonprofits across the country
Successfully guided over 150 capital campaigns
Three steps towards lasting impact.
1. Clarify the Gap
A conversation about where your organization is, where you're headed, and where the leadership gap is creating the most friction. No assessment fees. No intake forms. Just an honest conversation.
2. Match the Right Engagement
Based on your mission, culture, and needs, we recommend the engagement that fits. Every offering is clearly defined with set deliverables, clear outcomes, and transparent pricing.
3. Show Up and Stay
We embed in your organization, work alongside your team, and stay focused on implementation, not just strategy. We don't hand off a plan. We run it with you until it works.
THE OFFERINGS
Every engagement: defined scope,
clear price, lasting impact.
ministryengine sits on the other side of the gap between strategy and execution. We don't hand you a framework and wish you well. We stay in the work with you — implementing, adjusting, and building the organizational muscle to sustain what we build together.
Fractional Executive Pastor
A full-time Executive Pastor costs $120K–$150K+ in salary and benefits, plus the risk of a bad hire. Our fractional EPs have led some of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the US, and specialize in tying vision all the way down to daily execution. Defined hours. Defined deliverables. No hourly billing.
Fractional Director of Communications
A full-time Comms Director costs $80K–$110K before benefits. Our fractional leaders have built platforms with hundreds of thousands of followers, led national campaigns, and guided organizations through crises that threatened institutional trust. They own your communications, and protect it.
Capital Campaigns
A capital campaign is one of the highest-stakes seasons a church or nonprofit will navigate. Done well, it accelerates your mission and deepens your generosity culture. Done poorly, it damages trust and sets your vision back by years. Our team has guided over 150 campaigns at every scale and in every kind of church culture. They bring a proven process, a pastor's heart, and the judgment that only comes from having done this before.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Questions worth
asking.
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Your leader is a genuine, dedicated member of your team — just not full-time. Typically one to three days per week, with consistent meetings, communication, and on-site presence. Not a consultant you check in with. An embedded leader accountable to your team.
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Consultants deliver a defined product and then the engagement ends. MinistryEngine stays in the work with you — implementing, adjusting, and building organizational capacity over time. We don't just make the plan. We run it with you.
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Churches and faith-based nonprofits exclusively — budgets between $1M and $60M, staffs of 6 to 250. Organizations serious about their mission with real growth ahead and a need for experienced senior leadership to help them get there.
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Think in years, not months. Most fractional engagements run 8 to 24 months at minimum. The impact of consistent, embedded leadership compounds over time. We're built for the long haul.
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Hourly pricing creates the wrong incentives. We'd rather define the scope, agree on deliverables, and be accountable to results. Every engagement comes with defined hours, deliverables, and clear outcomes. You know what you're getting before we start.
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Yes. Our communications team has navigated moral failures, pastoral transitions, organized public protests, and institutional crises. If you need experienced guidance immediately, reach out. We'll respond quickly.
Imagine your senior pastor leading from their strengths.
Your communications are consistent, clear, and mission-aligned — without you managing every piece. If a crisis hits, you have someone who has been there before standing next to you.
Your directors are growing. Your operating system is running — not sitting in a document somewhere. Your capital campaign exceeded its goal and deepened your generosity culture.
That's what it looks like when experienced leaders are embedded in your mission, running the plan alongside you. Not overnight. But over time, with the right people consistently in the right roles.
Our Conviction
The key to lasting impact in a community is longevity.
We lead, like you, with you.
In over 75 years of collective ministry experience, our team knows the stresses, demands, and loneliness that ministry can bring.
We know the many hats you must wear, the dreaded Sunday afternoon emails, and the weight of caring for souls and effectively leading a church in relentless change.
But we also know the joys of ministry—baptizing new believers, having members get the Gospel in new ways, seeing new leaders grow and lives transformed.
We've grown churches, ministries, and church networks that have had impact all around the country.
More than all of that, our biggest joy is sharing our experience and skills to help other pastors make it for the long-term.
Ready to stop patching gaps and start building something that lasts?
Whether you need an embedded fractional leader, a strategic transformation engagement, or a proven partner for your next capital campaign — we'd love to have a conversation.
