Barney Ford - Paraclete Mission Group

Barney Ford

With Paraclete Mission Group, Barney Ford provides spiritual direction, spiritual formation and executive coaching.

After becoming a Christian at the age of 19, Barney felt called of God to full-time ministry as he read John 20:21. This call began over 46 years of ministry with university students in both InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and the global ministry, the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students.

Barney began working as a campus staff worker for the schools of Western Ohio and Eastern Indiana. He focused on teaching the scriptures, chapter building and training in evangelism, discipleship and missions. He then spent the following years in various stages of leadership within InterVarsity including three years as InterVarsity’s area director for Ohio, three years as state director for Michigan, director for new staff orientation, director of campus ministry with responsibilities for half of InterVarsity’s student work in the United States, and one year of study at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena.

In 1986, he moved with his family to Madison, Wisconsin where he began his position as InterVarsity’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, serving with president Steve Hayner until 1998. Barney also served as the director for Urbana 2000, board chair for the IFES executive committee from 1995 to 2003, VP and director of strategic ministries until 2007, and the VP and director of advancement until 2011. From 2011 until retiring from InterVarsity in 2016, Barney served as executive coach and spiritual formation specialist.

He is also a past board chair for JourneyMates, a spiritual formation ministry headquartered in Raleigh. He is a recent member of the faculty for the Integrated Missions Leadership program of the Oxford Centre for Missions Studies.

The Fords make their home in Raleigh, North Carolina. They have three grown daughters and seven grandchildren.

Services

Donor Privacy Policy

Paraclete Mission Group is committed to respecting the privacy of our donors. We provide this Donor Privacy Policy to inform you of the way we protect and use your information.

Information We Collect

Here are the types of donor information that we collect and maintain:
Your contact information: name, organization/church, address, phone number, email address;
Your preference for which ministry your donation will be applied;
Your payment information: credit card and/or bank account information;
Information you choose to share with us: questions, comments, suggestions, how you learned of Paraclete, and;
Your communication preferences; e.g., to individuals who request it, we will send periodic mailings related to specific fund-raising appeals, prayer concerns, and newsletters.

How We Use Your Information

Paraclete Mission Group uses your information to help you complete a donation, communicate back to you, and update you on ministry activity and results. We use credit card numbers only for donation or payment processing.

How We Protect Your Information

We use industry standard safeguards to protect your information. We protect the security of credit card transactions using a number of measures such as encryption, access controls, network firewalls and physical security. Card numbers are never stored on our premises in any physical or electronic form. These measures make it extremely difficult for anyone to intercept the credit card information you send to us. When we work with other companies to process credit card transactions, those companies also use encryption and other security measures.

We Do Not Share Your Personal Information

Paraclete Mission Group will not sell, rent, trade or lease your personal information to other organizations. We hold the identity of donors confidentially. We will use your information only to further the ministry purposes of Paraclete Mission Group. We will not send you mailings on behalf of another organization.

YOUR RIGHTS – GDPR Specific

Personal Information

Where you have provided your consent to us processing your personal data, you may withdraw this consent at any time. In addition, the Global Data Protection Regulations gives you the right, under certain circumstances:

to request in writing and securely obtain copies of the personal information we hold about you;
to correct or update your personal information held by us;
to request us to stop using your personal information for marketing purposes or for any other purpose where there is no legal requirement for continued processing;
to object to profiling activities based on our legitimate interest;
to request to have all personal data deleted (in the EEA only). To exercise any of these rights please contact privacy@paraclete.net .

Please tell Paraclete Mission Group as soon as any of your contact details change so that records can be kept up to date.

We will take reasonable steps to correct any of your information, which is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.

Removing Your Name From Our Mailing List

We will honor your desire not to receive mail from us if that is your preference. Please contact us if you wish to be removed from our mailing list. Donors with an online account with Paraclete Mission Group can establish and change their communication preferences, print receipts, make one-time donations and set up recurring automatic donations. If you choose not to have an online account you have the same degree of control when you call or write to tell us of your preferences.

Contacting Us

If you have comments or questions about our donor privacy policy, please send us an email at info@paraclete.net or call us at (719) 302-2500.