We believe great brand experiences start with great stories.

Why Reliant Creative?

We exist to tell your ministry’s story because those stories are powerful and they can inspire action and mobilize the Church for your cause. Across the world, God is working through ordinary people in extraordinary ways: believers are feeding the poor, saving children from sex slavery, healing the sick, helping widows and orphans, and extending compassion to the lost and lonely. The stories behind these efforts are often lost. If we can tell those stories we can increase your impact, inspire action, and mobilize the Church for your cause.

You’re a ministry executive. You don’t have time and you may not have the resources to tell your stories. You were called to your cause, not marketing. That’s our calling and we can help! Reliant Creative is supported by generous donors who believe stories are powerful. They believe that stories can mobilize the Church and they’re investing in our organization so we can help tell your stories. 

We believe God is at work in incredible ways globally. We’ve seen His work first hand. The problem is that it’s difficult to tell those stories because it’s time consuming and expensive. But, if we can tell those stories to the Church, we believe she’ll mobilize and rally behind what God is already doing through prayer and financial investment.  Your stories just need to be told well and often. Let’s tell powerful stories of how God’s working through your ministry and mobilize the Church!

Running a ministry is hard and you don’t have the time or financial resources for marketing and telling your stories. You weren’t called to be a marketer after all, you were called to your cause. It can be overwhelming to care for those who you’ve been called to serve while thinking about how you’re going to get donors and supporters invested in your ministry.

Who has the time and resources to create content, to tell their stories to donors, to build a brand?

We do, and we’ve got a plan!

While we operate as a full service agency, we’re also a 501(c)3 ministry called to use our gifts to help you tell your ministry story cost effectively. And we’ve got our own donors to help out!

We understand and relate to the struggles you are challenged with every day because we are working through many of the same struggles. If you’ll let us use our gifts and experience in marketing to tell your story, you can spend your time focusing where you’ve been called.

We’ll take the time to get to know you and the work you do. If we partner with you, your work is our work. We’ll do no cookie-cutting. Every branding effort, every website, every campaign is created custom to fit your ministries needs. 

We are a Christian ministry committed to using our gifts, talents, and abilities for Kingdom impact through creative action.

If you are a church or church plant looking for creative solutions to your ministry’s creative needs, we’re here to help you. We understand that every church is unique with varying needs and diverse congregations. How you relate and visually speak to a large suburban church congregation will be different from how you speak to an urban congregation downtown. We’ll listen to your individual needs before we start implementation and execution so that what we deliver is custom fit to your church or plant. 

We can help you build a brand, or tackle your next website project with ease. But maybe most excitingly is our Marketing as a Service offering, Kingdom Stories. With this new digital marketing service we will solve your weekly content strategy needs with content that leads with story, the most effective tool in digital.   

Here's how we can help your ministry.

We are storytellers and we believe great brand experiences start with great stories. Every interaction a donor has with your brand should be viewed as an opportunity to tell your unique ministry stories. If you tell your stories you can inspire action and mobilize donors for your cause. We can help you mobilize the Church to prayerful and financial investment in what God is already doing through your organization. Here are the areas where we specialize in telling ministry stories. 

Messaging & Strategy

Messaging Strategy
Visual Identity
Brand Guidelines
Content Strategy
Campaign Strategy

Creating a plan of action is crucial to any project. We want to understand your ministries audience, so that the content and experiences we create are effective. We can help you craft a plan so your stories, message, and visuals land effectively communicating the right message.

We want to help you create user-first digital experiences. Form and function don’t have to be at odds. In fact, they can and should work together. We believe they can compliment one another to drive engagement and conversion and everything we design follows that belief.

Visual Storytelling

Photography
Cinematography
Campaign Development
Graphic Design
Print Collateral

Visual storytelling is where we really shine, it’s our specialty, and it’s how we got our start as an agency. Great brand experiences start with great stories, and we believe that second only to prayer stories are the most powerful way to mobilize the Church. We can help you tell powerful stories of how God is working through your ministry and increase your cause impact.

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Meet Our Team

Creators driven to serve the Kingdom through creative action. We love telling stories, not for the sake of telling stories, but for the sake of Kingdom impact and ministry reach. 

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Zachary Leighton

Founder & Principal Creative

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Moe Loubani

Senior Developer

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Jon Mendoza

Developer

Jem Hernandez

Jem Hernandez

Executive Administrator

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Valerie Riese

Head of Content

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Matt Davis

Strategy & Messaging

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Tim Cowley

Reliant Global Coordinator

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Sarah VanWinkle

Creative Director

Max Moser

Max Moser

Video Production & Cinematography

Judson Aulie

Judson Aulie

Google Ad Management

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Eliza Ramos

UX/UI Design

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Andra Parnada

Content Writer & Editor

FAQ's

  • The average church is 80 people in size usually giving towards the salary of a solo pastor and maybe a part-time administrator. For most churches, hiring a marketing director is out of the question, let alone hiring an entire marketing or media team. The average para-church ministry has enough resources for an executive director and a small operations team. In most cases, the remaining funds go toward the field. If a church or nonprofit CAN afford a marketing director, they might have the greatest digital strategy in the world, but digital is too big for one individual to be effective. For the same cost or oftentimes less, you can hire an agency and have an entire marketing team at your disposal.
  • If you already have a marketing director or a small marketing team, hiring an agency can be a powerful and cost-effective way of augmenting and supporting that team.
  • There’s also the benefit of hiring industry experts. Not all marketing tactics work in the ministry context, yet most marketing directors come from traditional marketing backgrounds. Working with a team that understands marketing within a Christian ministry context can have significant implications. 
  • We are living through the greatest communications shift since the printing press. This is the single greatest communications shift in human history and the opportunities to engage with people who don’t know Christ, online, is incalculable. Christianity is unique among all other religions in that God came to humanity, entered into our brokenness and made a way to redeem us to right relationship with Himself. He meets us where we are at. Shouldn’t that be how we approach those who don’t yet know Christ? People are spending more and more time online every day. The latest estimates show an average of 8 hours per day. We must go where people are, and the reality is that they are spending more and more time in digital places. Digital marketing isn’t just relevant for the growth of your ministry from a marketing and financial standpoint, digital marketing has significant implications for the gospel.
  • Rev. 12:11, Rev. 19:10, Psalm 107, 1 Tim. 6:12, Acts 22:1-21, Acts 26:1-32, Acts 4:33, Romans 10:17, John 4, 1 Peter 3:15, Mark 5:1-20
  • God is serious about story.
  • The bible is story.
  • Since the fall, God has been telling one big redemption story.
  • Story can sway hearts and minds.
  • Story has the power to physically heal us.
  • God has hard-wired us to engage and communicate with and through story.
  • “70-80% of the world is story-centric or functions in oral tradition cultures.” – Rick Sessoms
  • Stories inspire and move people to action.
  • “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world.” – Robert McKee.
  • And last but not least, especially in the context of what we do, storytelling has significant implications for marketing. 

Let's tell engaging stories of how God's working through your ministry.

Don’t lose out on donor investment because your stories aren’t being told effectively. The stories of how God is at work through your ministry are powerful and can inspire the Church to action. BOOK A CALL and learn how we can help you become the guide your partners need to be the heroes for your cause.

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