Welcome to The Barnabas Institute

"Be strong and very courageous."
(God's encouragement to Joshua in Joshua 1:7.
This is our advice to you today.)

"You will do a great thing."
(Where would Paul have been without Barnabas to encourage him?)

Welcome to The Barnabas Institute web site. Enjoy your visit, and look for support and connections to others who share your desire to have a life full of meaning.

We believe that a meaningful life doesn't just happen. God is in charge of our universe, and we thrive by respecting and serving Him.

We believe that everyone needs encouragement to live as God calls us to do. This site has been developed to encourage you and to help you (and us) learn to encourage others around us.

You might think that a "Ministry of encouragement" would have all the answers. In fact, we are not professional ministers, but just ordinary people on the road through what sometimes seems like a pretty tough life. We hit the same rough places you do. We hope that our struggles will lead to growth that we can pass on to you.

We'd love to hear from you when you think of some way that we might help you.

Just as important, PLEASE tell us whenever you expect something specific on our site, and we fail to deliver the goods. With your help, we will learn more quickly to help more people.

Find what you want on our site:

• Site Map - This gives all the details about what the site offers. You probably got to this page from the Site Map.


• Home Page - Contains links to some current issues. Be sure to take our Mini-Poll.


• About Us - Mission, Statement of Faith, links to many other pages on our site


• Programs Summary Page - Includes links to each program's descriptive page(s).


• Press Box - Media Section, with links to information on other pages and press releases


• Help - Welcoming page gives Brief Overview of site; Frequently Asked Questions, Search Form


• Contact us - More than anything else, we'd like to hear from you.