National Church Group: ‘Our Mission Is to Protect Your Mission’

National Church Group (NCG) Insurance Agency started as a one-person operation in a drafty old houseindowntown Leesburg,Virginia. OnJanuary 1,1984, GregWigfieldtackedhis business sign on the front porch of that building, and NCG was born. At the time, Greg was the Chaplain to the Washington Redskins, a nonpaying job. He started his business to finance his ministry. Greg understood that approach to ministry as his father and grandfather both were bi-vocational pastors in underserved communities. Following his six-year stint with the Redskins during the Joe Gibbs dream era, Greg and his wife planted a church. Greg recently stepped down from pastoring that church after 22 years of ministry, and during that time, he never took a paycheck from the church. NCG was instrumental in paying his salary and giving financially to the church.

Today, NCG is headed toward its 40-year anniversary. With well over 30 employees and almost 4,000 churches and faith-based ministries insured, NCG is one of the largest privately owned church insurance agencies in the nation. NCG has also evolved into the world of insuring schools, colleges, daycares, camps, and nonprofits. The agency is licensed and doing business in all 50 states.

Their motto is “Our Mission is to Protect Your Mission.” NCG takes that statement to heart. In this day and age of cultural disruption, churches and other faith-based organizations are the target of attacks from those who would want to cause harm to the church and related ministries. So, NCG has worked hard to offer the insurance protections that are needed. These protections include coverage for pastoral counseling, sexual molestation and abuse, religious freedom, directors and officers, crime, cyber exposure…whatever the church or organization needs.

NCG has created ways to protect faith-based organizations that needed specific coverages that did not exist. For instance, as the agency saw the huge influx toward homeschooling, there was a unique need for insurance for homeschool co-op groups. NCG developed this program, and now more than 2,000 homeschool co-ops get their insurance from NCG’s Homeschool Insurance Solutions.

In2009,NCGformedaPartnershipProgramwiththeDistrictofColumbiaBaptistConvention. NCG values this partnership, and for these almost 15 years, they’ve made many friends in the Convention. NCG is thankful for this relationship.

In addition to the mission of protecting faith-based missions, NCG has been able to fund other missions through donations and dividend programs that now amount to more than $5 million.

Greg and his family continue to lead NCG, and they have implemented a family plan for the next generation to do the same. Before NCG became a business, Greg decided that the agency would be a kingdom venture, so he and the agency leaders see themselves as stewards, not owners. When the leaders and employees get this vision, it gives everyone a better perspective and purpose for work.

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