The Finish Line Podcast Jeff Latture, Executive VP of Barnhart Crane & Rigging, on Multiplying Impact Through Strategic Collaborative Giving (Ep. 180)
Jeff Latture serves as Executive Vice President at Barnhart Crane and Rigging and as chairman of Strategic Resource Group, but his journey into collaborative generosity began long before boardrooms and grant strategies. Growing up in Arkansas, he watched his parents come to genuine faith, yet it was later in Dallas through a vibrant church community and a pivotal sermon from Bill Bright, that his faith became personal. A simple conversation with his future wife about missions planted an early vision: if they could not go, perhaps they could send. God reshaped that vision when He closed the door to starting their own business and instead led Jeff to Barnhart, a company committed to investing its profits in the Great Commission.
Over three decades, Jeff has helped cultivate GROVE, Barnhart’s internal collaborative giving team, and advance a mutual fund model of ministry through the Strategic Resource Group. He has learned that wise generosity requires shared mission, deep relationships, patient trust, and a willingness to surrender control. Collaborative structures, clear strategy, and long-term partnerships have multiplied Kingdom impact across frontier regions. This conversation offers a thoughtful vision for pursuing obedience, discernment, and deeper partnership in your own stewardship journey.
Major Topics Include:
- Give collaboratively, not independently
- Build trust through long-term relationships
- Shifting from transactions to partnerships
- Organize giving around focused teams
- Leveraging business wisdom for Kingdom impact
- Investing in ministry capacity and health
- How to balance metrics with Spirit-led discernment
- Surrendering control in stewardship
- “What I really wanted in starting a business was to be in control. And God wasn’t going to let me have that.”
- “He said, I’ll let you serve the ones in control, but I’m not going to let you be the ultimate steward.”
- “We would never have thought ever that we would have the viewpoint that we have for what God’s doing around the world. But it just started one relationship and one gift at a time.”
- “Giving together is way better than trying to do it on your own.”
- “You just learn faster in a group than you can by yourself.”
- “It’s our secret sauce is doing things together and getting the thinking of many people pointing the same direction.”
- “A good collaborative will cost you something. You have to give up some rights for a collaborative to work.”
- “Knowing the heart of the leader is the most important thing.”
- “It’s very relational. We like to measure things. We’re a bunch of engineers. But it’s really the relationships that drive us.”
- “If we’ll go to God first and really lean in to listening to what Scripture says and what the Holy Spirit is saying before we make those funding decisions, somehow it comes out with a better result.”
- “My personal experience over 30 years, He will do far more than you can ever imagine with the things that He’s given you.”
- Alan Barnhart (see our past interview here)
- When Helping Hurts (see our interview with coauthor Brian Fikkert)
- Mission Increase
- Strategic Resource Group
- The India Alliance
- IllumiNations Bible Translation Alliance (see our interview with Todd Peterson or John Chesnut)
- MacLellan Foundation (see our interview with Director of Generosity, John Cortines)
- Mergon
- Doug Cobb, Founder of The Finishing Fund (see our past interview here)
- Achieve Alliance
Matthew 28:19–20 | The Great Commission
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Esther 4:14 | For Such a Time as This
“For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
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