HeartCry Missionary Society has taken measures on multiple levels to provide proper oversight of its ministry and to ensure its endurance in faithfulness. Our structure of accountability is two-fold: (1) the board of directors with its overseeing pastors and churches, and (2) the local church of each laborer.

Board of Directors

As a 501(c)(3) or non-profit organization, HeartCry Missionary Society has a Board of Directors to aid in directing and monitoring its activities. The board consists of men from a wide range of backgrounds and expertise, yet all are churchmen, diligent students of the Scriptures, united under a common theological confession, devoted to Christ, and committed to His cause. Per HeartCry’s by-laws, the board manages the “property, affairs, and business” of the ministry and exercises such powers as are allowed and prescribed by statute, the ministry’s articles of incorporation, and its by-laws.

The board’s primary responsibility is to ensure that HeartCry remains faithful to its doctrinal confession, mission statement, and core values. Other duties include the approval of the ministry’s budget, oversight of compensation, review of the management of financial assets, and the appointment of the President/Executive Director.

Ecclesiastical Oversight

The nature of HeartCry’s ministry requires that our board consists of faithful men who are knowledgeable in the fields of administration, finance, and legal matters. Concurrently, HeartCry is a Christian ministry that requires the doctrinal, moral, and spiritual oversight that can only be achieved through godly pastors and their churches. For this reason, the HeartCry board also consists of elders who co-labor with HeartCry and provide ecclesiastical oversight. These pastors and their churches are of like faith and practice and are committed to the advancement of the Great Commission through HeartCry.

One of HeartCry’s foundational convictions is that the Great Commission is advanced through planting and strengthening local churches. To achieve this goal, it is absolutely necessary that we labor under the counsel and oversight of local churches and their pastors that have joined together for that purpose. This kind of cooperation between likeminded churches for the advancement of the Great Commission and the edification of the church is substantiated in the New Testament:

• Multiple churches throughout Asia Minor united to send a contribution to the poor saints in Jerusalem who were suffering from persecution as well as a famine that was devastating Palestine (Acts 11:27-30; Acts 15:25-27; II Corinthians 8:1-9:15).

• Paul was sent out by the church in Antioch (Acts 13:1-3) and received the approval of the church in Jerusalem (Acts 15:1-35; Galatians 2:1-9)

• Timothy joined Paul’s missionary efforts at the recommendation of two churches, Lystra and Iconium (Acts 16:1-3)

• Paul’s co-laborers in his missionary endeavors were from several churches in different regions (Acts 20:2-4).

• Paul mentions a brother who had “been appointed by all the churches” for a specific task (II Corinthians 8:19).

John writes to Gaius about joining in the support of worthy men who were sent out by other churches but were strangers to his congregation (III John 1:5-8).

Local Church Membership

In addition to the Board, each staff member of HeartCry Missionary Society is a member in good standing of a local church that identifies with the 1689 London Baptist Confession, the New Hampshire Confession, the Philadelphia Confession, the Abstract of Principles, or its own confession that adheres to the major doctrines of the Reformed Baptist faith.

Financial Reports and Audits

It is a solemn responsibility to be entrusted with the sacrificial gifts of God’s children and to be accountable for their proper administration to His laborers. In Luke 12:42-46, Jesus warned:

“Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk; the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers.”

Knowing the fear of the Lord, our ambition is to administer God’s resources as wisely as possible. For this, we covet your prayers that we might conduct every transaction with godly wisdom and be found faithful in the administration of every cent.

To increase our accountability, HeartCry submits to a yearly audit by one of the most respected U.S. accounting firms for non-profits. In addition, we also send out an annual financial report to all our donors. Past financial reports are also posted on our website. For further information, please contact us at [email protected].