A national association for Christian business owners. Membership is open to anyone who'll stand behind it — but what you do from there is earned. A room, a network, and real capital behind the people who go further.
$250/year · Founding rate locked for life · Chapters forming in Arkansas & Tennessee
Every Christian business owner knows this split. Sunday has no vocabulary for payroll, cash flow, or the partner who just walked. Monday has no vocabulary for why you turned down the deal that would have doubled the quarter.
So you carry both alone. NCBA exists to end that.
One table where the business talk is serious and the conviction isn't a footnote — plus a network that sends you work, a mark that tells your customers who you are, and capital for the ones ready to build something bigger.
Most associations promise community and deliver a newsletter. Here's the specific list.
Monthly meetings in your region with owners who carry the same weight. Small groups, not auditoriums. Mentorship that's assigned, not hoped for. People who will ask you the hard question and expect an answer.
A searchable national directory and a member-to-member referral network built to actually move work. We track what members send each other — because a network that can't show its number isn't a network.
The NCBA badge on your door, your truck, your invoices, and your site — you stand with a national body of Christian business owners, publicly. And it's the first rung. There are two more, and those are earned.
Membership is open — sign the statement of faith and you're in. There is no free tier and no waiting list. What you earn after that is a different matter.
For established business owners
or $25/month
Save $50 paying annuallyAges 18–30, building your first venture
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Cohorts capped at 20Chapters currently forming in Arkansas and Tennessee, with national membership open now.
Membership is the door, and the door is open. What separates one member from the next is what they've done since walking through it.
Pay dues, sign the statement of faith and code of conduct, and you're in. It says you stand with a national body of Christian business owners — publicly, with your name on it. It doesn't claim anything about your business, and we don't pretend it does.
For members who've sat down with NCBA advisors and done the work — books opened, operations reviewed, a plan built and followed. This one says somebody looked, and the business held up.
Companies NCBA put capital into and holds a stake in. We're on the cap table, which means our name is on your outcome. The rarest mark, and the only one where we have something to lose too.
And one that isn't a rung at all
For congregations that stand behind the business owners in their pews. Churches aren't members and never pay dues — they're partners. An NCBA Church displays the mark, opens its doors to members who want to gather, and lets us come tell the congregation what we do once a year. In return, its people have somewhere to take the Monday half of their lives.
For members with something worth building, NCBA puts capital behind the company and takes a 10% stake — so we're in it with you, not above you.
A different badge than membership.
It has to be earned.
Ninety days. Four pillars. A real standard with a real fail condition — because a test you can't fail isn't a test.
Daily scripture and prayer, logged. Weekly church involvement. Then leading something, not just attending it.
A screen-free block every day with the people you're actually doing this for. Presence you can point to on a calendar.
Five training days a week, progressing. The discipline you build under a barbell is the same one you spend in a negotiation.
Logged, targeted, honest. No alcohol for ninety days. The simplest daily proof that your word to yourself means something.
Set the standards and hit them every day. This month is about showing up without negotiation.
Intensity progresses. Service is added. The cohort call gets harder because the excuses get thinner.
Lead something. A family devotion, a small group, someone coming up behind you. Then final assessment.
The first hundred lock the $250 rate for life, get their name on the founding roster, and shape what this becomes. After that, the price goes up and the room is already built.
A verified directory listing, the NCBA badge and decal, monthly regional meetings, access to the member referral network and portal, member pricing on events, and eligibility to apply for NCBA funding. If you can't point to real value at renewal, we haven't done our job — and we track referral volume specifically so that conversation can be about a number, not a feeling.
Yes. Every member signs the NCBA statement of faith. That's what the badge means to the customer standing in your doorway, and it's what makes the room worth being in. We'd rather be smaller and mean something.
It means you're a member of the NCBA in good standing — you pay dues, you've signed the statement of faith, and you're publicly willing to stand with a national body of Christian business owners. It is not a quality rating and we don't pretend otherwise. The badges that carry a claim about the business itself are NCBA Counseled and NCBA Founded, and those are earned.
Churches don't join and don't pay — they partner. An NCBA Church displays the mark, is willing to host members who want to gather, and gives us a few minutes with the congregation once a year. There's no fee, no dues, and no payment in either direction. We don't pay churches for referrals and we never will — that would turn a partnership into a commission, and no pastor should be put in that position.
Yes. Membership is open, but it isn't unconditional. Every member signs a code of conduct, and the board can revoke membership and the right to display the mark. Open to join, possible to lose — that's what keeps it worth carrying.
An investment. NCBA provides startup capital in exchange for a 10% ownership stake, alongside mentorship and network access. It's structured as an investment, not debt — meaning we win when you win, and we're not sending you a payment book. Full terms are provided during the application process.
Because most businesses don't fail on strategy — they fail on the person running them. Ninety days of proving you can hold a standard when nobody's watching tells us more than any pitch deck. It's the cheapest possible due diligence, and it's the part members say changed the most.
Membership is national from day one — the directory, referral network, portal, and funding eligibility don't depend on geography. Chapters are forming in Arkansas and Tennessee first. If you want one in your city, tell us; chapters start because a member decided to start one.
Yes. Monthly memberships cancel anytime. Annual memberships run the full year and simply don't renew if you choose not to. No retention maze, no phone tree.