Building a community that connects marketplace people to life-changing faith in Jesus - encouraging and discipling them to impact their workplaces and metro Richmond with His values, ethics and love.

Needle’s Eye Ministries, Inc. is an interdenominational, non-profit organization whose aim is to see the Richmond marketplace transformed through Christians living out their faith at work.

More than 48 years of ministry has allowed Needle’s Eye to provide resources to thousands of Richmond professionals, inspiring and equipping Christians to become a source of hope and light at work, at home, and around our city.

In 1977, Buddy Childress founded Needle’s Eye with a vision to turn the work week into a place of care, ethics, and ministry. 

In 2021, Jordan Maroon became the 2nd Executive Director of Needle’s Eye.

We are a faith and work community who:

• Seek increasing Christlikeness at work and everywhere else

• Pursue deep, authentic relationships

• Take risks in obedience to the Holy Spirit

• Reflect the diversity of the Kingdom of God and the marketplace of Richmond

• Collaborate for greater impact

• Work with excellence from a place of abiding rest in Christ

Since its inception in 1977, Needle’s Eye has had a Board of Directors that provides spiritual direction and leadership.

Chair — Mike Patterson, President at MP Capital Group, Managing Partner at Kingdom Consulting

Tony Atlas, Colonel (retired), U.S. Army

Chip Buehler, Owner, Integrity Landscaping

Lisa Hampson Butler, Senior Director Business Development, JLL

Gerald Carter, Partner, Harrell & Chambliss, LLP

Susan Daniel, Supply Chain Expert, ECR Software

Bob DeLille, CEO (retired), Creative

Sarah Hale, Executive Director, Urban Hope

Jordan J. Maroon, President & Executive Director, Needle’s Eye Ministries, Inc.

Chris White, Insurance Advisor, AssuredPartners

Roy Wood, retired, representative of Second Half ministry

Ex officio & Treasurer — Franklin Y. Goare, CPA, Senior Pastor, Hunton Baptist Church

We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.

We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Needle’s Eye Ministries is a member of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). Needle’s Eye subscribes to the NAE Statement of Faith and embraces it as our own.

We deeply value the role of the church and work to create ongoing partnerships with churches who are interested in expanding discipleship for marketplace people in their congregation. LEARN MORE