About the Foundation
For those who keep watch over the flock.
Shepherds Only Foundation is a perpetual endowment with one quiet purpose: to stand behind the men and women God has set over His people, and behind the families who carry that calling with them.
Every Sunday, in a city cathedral or a village schoolroom with borrowed chairs, someone stands up to feed a congregation they have spent the whole week carrying. They have prayed over the sick, buried the dead, married the young and counselled the broken. Very few people ask what it cost them.
We exist to ask. And then, where the need is real, to answer with something more lasting than sympathy.
The Foundation serves those called into the five-fold ministry: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. Its care reaches their spouses and their children, because a minister’s household is part of the ministry whether anyone acknowledges it or not.
Get to know us
Six ways into the same story.
Start wherever your question is. Each page answers one part of who we are and why we work the way we do.
Our Story
What we kept seeing in the lives of ministers, and why it led us to build something meant to outlast us.
Read our story 02Vision & Mission
Why our attention rests on the shepherd, and how caring for one minister reaches an entire flock.
See the vision 03Beliefs & Values
The Gospel of Jesus Christ at the centre, and the values that shape how we treat every person who comes to us.
What we believe 04Stewardship & Trust
Built by stewards, for stewards. Why we never appeal to outside bodies, and how the endowment is kept.
How we are sustained 05Board of Trustees
Spirit-filled men and women with long records in ministry, invited to guard the decisions that matter most.
Meet the role 06Governance & Policies
The board, the safeguards and the written policies that keep authority accountable and resources protected.
Read our policiesAn endowment designed to keep giving support long after the people who set it up are gone.
Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, serving full-time or part-time.
Ministers, their spouses and their children are cared for as one family.
We never publish the names or circumstances of the ministers we support.
Are you in ministry?
If you are carrying more than you can tell your congregation, start here.
Find out who qualifies, how applications work and when the next window opens.