Directory of Ministries
Since 1989 the CareGivers Forum conference has brought together many ministries caring for vocational Christian workers and their families. They represent many types of resources for the pastor, pastoral family, church leaders, and missionaries. This resource directory lists ministries currently active in the network (attending the Forum in the last ten years) who meet basic criteria and have requested to be listed. (Forum attenders: find criteria here)
Depending on your background and experience, you may feel more comfortable with some organizations than with others. We suggest you visit their website and contact them directly to obtain other information that will help you in choosing the resources that are right for you. (See disclaimer below.)
Crossroads Mission Care
Dixon Springs TN
Crossroads Mission Care’s vision is to create places where appreciation, self-care, and restoration are accessible, feel close to home, and are a mainstay of military, civil and spiritual first responder culture. Crossroads Mission Care provides restorative hospitality programs to those who serve others during times of crisis; specifically focusing on military personnel, and spiritual and civil first responders. Our goal is to help them remain effective in their calling.
Deer Ridge Ministries
Freeport IL
Deer Ridge Ministries is a rest and renewal retreat for full-time pastors and spouses. Guests must submit a retreat request from the web site. Sunday evening through Friday morning retreats are offered throughout the year. Food and lodging are provided as a gift to our registered guests.
Desert Light Ministries
Valley Springs SD
“Rekindling hope in ministry leaders and churches experiencing desert realities.” This is the mission of Desert Light Ministries. Through counseling, consulting, speaking, and teaching, Jim and Carol lovingly offer the truth of God’s Word to hurting ministry leaders.
EdenRidge / Mission to Missionaries
Crossville TN
EdenRidge is a missionary-focused retreat and vacation destination located on the Cumberland Plateau in East Tennessee. Our mission is to offer missionaries a place of rest and rejuvenation.
Fairhaven Ministries
Roan Mountain TN
Fairhaven Ministries is a non-denominational clergy/Christian worker/lay retreat center offering a place for quiet rest, renewal, and restoration in Jesus Christ. Professional, biblical counseling is available.
Fairhaven Ministries Canada
Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
Fairhaven Leadership Retreat is an intentional setting committed to fostering a safe space and facilitating pathways where Christian leaders can be encouraged, supported, and refreshed physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Tangibly, the mission of ‘encouraging the health and renewal of Christian leaders’ is expressed through individual, couple, group, and family retreats and through the provision of virtual and in-person counselling, encouragement, prayer, sabbatical, and consultative support.
Forest Haven
Bradford NH
We are a Christian organization that provides a rural, quiet place of healing hospitality and spiritual refreshment for Christian ministers and missionaries, as well as their wives and husbands, who need time away from their ministry responsibilities to draw closer to God. (Sorry, we cannot accommodate children and are not at this time handicapped accessible.)
Grace Valley Ministries
Canton GA
Grace Valley Ministries provides an opportunity for ministry leaders to rest, reset, and re-engage, so they have a thriving personal life and growing ministry. We offer getaways in a peaceful setting, and pastoral counseling as needed. We also connect pastors in peer-to-peer groups for mutual encouragement, and we have a network of supporters who pray for pastors weekly.
Green Lake Conference Center
Green Lake WI
A Christian conference center that provides the place and space of ReCreation for people to discover God’s better version of themselves and their world, including ministry retreats.
Holy Ground Ministries
Gays Mills WI
Holy Ground exists to create a space for people to encounter the presence of Jesus as they retreat and find rest in the stillness of His creation. Our desire is for our guests to rest, re-charge and re-ignite the flame of first love as they carry out the call of the Lord upon their life.
HospitalityHomes.org
Mariposa CA
HospitalityHomes.org is a global network of homes providing rest and renewal for pastors, clergy, missionaries, evangelists, chaplains, ministry directors, and other full-time Christian workers. The network of homes are privately owned by Christian hosts in the spirit of Romans 12:13 "Share with God's people in need . . practice hospitality." They are available to Christian workers seeking spiritual and physical renewal at a nominal fee to the ministry. Our goal is to provide opportunities for those who are on the frontlines to "come away" with Jesus and get some rest and to be restored.
Intentional Hearts
Rome GA
Executive ministry coaching with Intentional Hearts is designed to assist you as a ministry professional in directing passionate calling into purposeful action. All coaching services are conveniently offered by telephone and video calling. Intentional Hearts also offers sexual integrity recovery coaching for men who need help designing a clear path back to sexual integrity.
Disclaimer -- This Directory is provided by CareGivers Forum and is intended for use by caregiver ministries and vocational Christian workers and their families. All information contained in this Directory is provided by the respective organization. CareGivers Forum is not a membership organization and makes no representations, recommendations, or endorsements, and none should be inferred, regarding any such organization. We accept no responsibility for any errors, omissions, or misrepresentations contained in this Directory. CareGivers Forum hereby expressly disclaims any liability arising from any reader's involvement with or patronage of any organization listed in the Directory.