The 87 Best Places for Believers to Work

Today the Best Christian Workplaces Institute (BCWI) honors 87 faith-based organizations as Certified Best Christian Workplaces for 2018.

These organizations met the certification standard determined by exemplary ratings of their employees who completed BCWI’s groundbreaking Employee Engagement Survey from January to July 2018. All 87 organizations evaluate their workplaces based on BCWI’s proprietary “FLOURISH Model”: fantastic teams, life-giving work, outstanding talent, uplifting growth, rewarding compensation, inspirational leadership, sustainable strategy and healthy communication.

The news of these new BCWI-certified honorees comes with two significant findings:

Flourishing organizational culture enables the retention of top talent, high productivity, growth and impact. “Christian leaders say that making gains in workplace culture enables them to have the spiritual, relational and organizational glue to face their challenges as a team,” says BCWI President Al Lopus. “We have seen numerous organizations mired in the quicksand of a bad culture take action and flip to a healthy culture for the benefit of their employees, families, communities and those they serve. As a result, they build a talent pipeline because of the reputation a flourishing workplace culture can provide, especially in this tight labor market.”

Overall, 64 percent were certified out of 136 organizations surveyed this year. BCWI is pleased that this percentage continues to improve, indicating an increase in the health of the culture levels in Christian organizations overall. As a pioneer in equipping and inspiring Christian leaders to build flourishing workplaces, BCWI’s Employee Engagement Survey has been completed by more than 300,000 employees from over 950 faith-based nonprofits, churches and Christian-owned businesses in the U.S., Australia, Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe and Central America.

BCWI is an international nonprofit, research-based, organizational development and human resources consulting firm, with head offices in Mercer Island, Washington. BCWI’s mission is to equip and inspire Christian leaders to build a flourishing workplace.

For more information, visit Best Christian Workplaces Institute online: bcwinstitute.org. Each week, benefit from the proven, practical insights from top Christian leaders on the BCWI Blog (blog.bcwinstitute.org) and Flourishing Culture Podcast (blog.bcwinstitute.org/podcast).

Black Diamond Camps – Black Diamond, Washington

Camp Eagle – Rocksprings, Texas

Glorieta Camps – Glorieta, New Mexico

ACR Supply Company – Durham, North Carolina

C12 Group – San Antonio, Texas

Dow Smith Contracting Company, Inc. – Smyrna, Tennessee

Outreach – Colorado Springs, Colorado

SonicAire – Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Total Computer Solutions – Greensboro, North Carolina

Antioch Community Church – Waco, Texas

Bethany Community Church – Seattle, Washington

Beulah Alliance Church – Edmonton, AB Canada

Brentwood United Methodist Church – Brentwood, Tennessee

Cherry Hills Community Church – Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Christ Presbyterian Church – Edina, Minnesota

Christian Life Assembly – Langley, BC Canada

The Compass Church – Naperville, IL

Coquitlam Alliance Church – Coquitlam, BC Canada

Cornerstone Church – Litchfield, Minnesota

CROSSROADS – Odessa, Texas

Crossroads Christian Church – Evansville, Indiana

Crossroads Community Church – Kokomo, Indiana

Doxa Deo – Stuttgart, Germany

Doxa Deo Church – Pretoria, South Africa

Doxa Deo Community Church – Tolworth, Surrey, United Kingdom

Eastview Christian Church – Normal, Illinois

Fellowship Bible Church – Little Rock, Arkansas

First Baptist Church of Eugene – Eugene, Oregon

First Christian Church of Johnson City – Johnson City, Tennessee

First Presbyterian Church Winston-Salem – Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Goodlife Community Centre – Buderim, QLD Australia

Grace Bible Church – Virginia Beach, Virginia

Grace Church – Middleburg Heights, Ohio

Journey Church – Bozeman, Montana

Mosaiek Church – Johannesburg, South Africa

Northridge Christian Church – Milledgeville, Georgia

Rocky Mountain Christian Church – Niwot, Colorado

Rolling Hills Christian Church – El Dorado Hills, California

Southridge Community Church – St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Sparks Christian Fellowship – Sparks, Nevada

Traders Point Christian Church – Indianapolis, Indiana

Trinity Church – Spring Hill, Tennessee

Vale Church – Bloomington, Illinois

The Village Church Nashville – Brentwood, Tennessee

West Highland FBC – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

WestGate Church – San Jose, California

Willow Creek Community Church – South Barrington, Illinois

Cherry Hills Christian School – Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Colegio Cristiano Nicolás — Ixil, Guatemala

College Heights Christian School – Joplin, Missouri

Faith Academy – Cainta, Philippines

Mitchell Road Christian Academy – Greenville, South Carolina

Toledo Christian Schools – Toledo, Ohio

The Woodlands Christian Academy – The Woodlands, Texas

Carolina College of Biblical Studies – Fayetteville, North Carolina

Prairie College – Three Hills, Alberta, Canada

Welch College – Nashville, Tennessee

Brighter Media Group – Baltimore, Maryland

InterVarsity Press – Westmont, Illinois

RightNow Media – McKinney, Texas

4KIDS – Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Bethesda – Colorado Springs, Colorado

Bible League International – Chicago, Illinois

BMA America – Conway, Arkansas

CARE for AIDS – Atlanta, Georgia

Care Net – Lansdowne, Virginia

CDF Capital – Irvine, California

Christian Children’s Home of Ohio – Wooster, Ohio

Coalition for Christian Outreach – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Compass – Kearney, Nebraska

Compassion Canada – London, Ontario, Canada

DiscipleMakers – State College, Pennsylvania

East-West Ministries International – Plano, Texas

FH Association Rwanda – Kigali, Rwanda

International Student Ministries Canada – Three Hills, Alberta, Canada

Lead Like Jesus – Spartanburg, South Carolina

Lifeshape – Atlanta, Georgia

MAP International – Brunswick, Georgia

Marketplace Chaplains – Plano, Texas

The Navigators – Colorado Springs, Colorado

New Horizons Ministries, Inc – Colorado Springs, Colorado

Reasons to Believe – Covina, California

St. Matthew’s House – Naples, Florida

Scripture Union Scotland – Glasgow, Scotland

Wycliffe Canada – Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Connect Ministries, Inc. – Watkinsville, Georgia