Seven out of ten churches in the United States have 100 or fewer people in weekly attendance (Faith Communities Today, 2025). Nearly half of all evangelical pastors work a second job while leading their congregation (Lifeway Research, 2025). Most of those churches have no budget for professional ministry resources.

MinistryPlace exists for them. Every guide, training resource, curriculum, and ministry form on this site is built for the pastor who is doing it all with limited time, limited budget, and unlimited calling. Your gift is what keeps it free.

Here is exactly what you are supporting.

400+ Free Articles and Guides

Every article on MinistryPlace is written for the small church context. Not adapted from large church content. Not watered down. Written from the ground up for bi-vocational pastors, volunteer leaders, and small church teams who need practical help, not theory.

Topics include pastoral leadership, volunteer management, children’s ministry, church finances, outreach, evangelism, men’s ministry, women’s ministry, small groups, deacon and elder training, rural church health, and more. Every article is free to read. No subscription. No email required.

1,200+ Free and Low-Cost Shop Resources

The MinistryPlace shop has over 1,200 resources available to small church leaders. Most are free. The paid resources are priced to be accessible to churches with no budget for professional tools.

What is in the shop:

• Sunday school curriculum for every age group, including lessons in Spanish
• VBS curriculum designed for small churches with limited volunteers
• Ministry forms, including volunteer applications, background check authorizations, child registration forms, and benevolence request forms
• Training guides for deacons, elders, small group leaders, and children’s ministry volunteers
• PDF downloads for Bible studies, including the James study series
• Pastoral care resources, stewardship guides, and outreach tools

A church with no budget can come to MinistryPlace and leave with everything they need to run a children’s ministry, train a deacon, launch a small group, or plan a stewardship campaign. That is the goal. Your gift keeps it possible.

17 Ministry Hub Pages

Each hub page organizes every MinistryPlace resource on a specific topic into one place. Instead of searching across dozens of pages, a pastor can go to the Men’s Ministry hub or the Church Finances hub and find everything in one organized, visual layout.

Current hubs include:

• Men’s Ministry
• Women’s Ministry
• Small Groups
• Evangelism Training
• Church Planting
• Bi-Vocational Ministry
• Rural Church
• Children’s Ministry
• Youth Ministry
• Deacon and Elder Training
• Church Finances
• Outreach Ministry
• Missions Ministry
• Senior Adult Ministry
• Volunteer Management
• Pastor Search
• AI and Technology

Who This Serves

The pastor of a 45-person church in a rural community who works full-time at a grain elevator and preaches on Sunday. The volunteer children’s ministry director who has never been trained and is figuring it out week by week. The deacon who was just ordained and has no idea what he is supposed to do. The search committee trying to call a pastor for the first time in 20 years.

These are the people MinistryPlace is built for. They are not on the radar of most ministry resource organizations. They do not have the budget to buy what they need. They need someone to build it for them and give it away.

That is what your gift supports.

What MinistryPlace Is Not

MinistryPlace is not a church. It is not a denomination. It is not a parachurch organization with a board and a development team. It is a resource site run by Brent Lacy, built to serve the churches that most resources forget about.