Tom and Nancy Hinton founded Barnabas Task in 2008. Tom is a pioneer pastor, and has worked as a missions coordinator with various ministries throughout the United States. Since 1980, he has facilitated church planting in Boston, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Chile as well as coordinated significant Disaster Relief responses worldwide. A popular engaging speaker, Tom has served with the Global CHE Network Service Team and is certified CHE trainer. His focus has been leadership training in a small group setting. Nancy is currently a Nurse Practitioner working as a Hospitalist at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN. The Hinton’s have six daughters and 14 grandchildren. They reside in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Barnabas Task was birthed because of deep pain and misunderstanding, refocusing all attention on a broken world. Mending broken people through leadership training and compassion has been their passion. They have leveraged their talents of missions and health care to follow God’s calling in obedience.