How Nicole Marie Bergeron Helps Pastors Afford Homes | Faith at Work | Follower Of One
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Release Date: 06/24/2026
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info_outlinePastors in expensive cities often cannot afford stable housing on ministry salaries. That financial pressure quietly threatens their ability to serve. If you want to see your faith show up in practical, tangible ways at work and with your money, this episode gives you a real example of what that looks like.
Key Discussion Points
Nicole explains how the Aslan Housing Foundation builds down payment assistance programs for pastors, using church investors, donor-advised funds, and self-directed IRAs to fund stable housing without competing with the church's general giving.
She describes a core operating value: do nothing about staff without staff. Surveys go out to both church leadership and pastoral staff before any housing strategy is built, so the people with the actual need have a voice in the solution.
Nicole unpacks what she calls a triple bottom line for investors: market-rate financial returns, a stabilized ministry, and a more secure pastor and family.
She talks about how she brings her faith into secular professional settings without forcing it, including sending a simple email to a real estate team in Hawaii during flooding to let them know she was praying for their safety.
She and host Addison Williams discuss how Christians in any profession hold two marketplace roles: what they do with their time at work and what they do with their money outside of it.
About the Guest
Nicole Marie Bergeron is the founder and CEO of Aslan Housing Foundation, a California-based nonprofit that helps churches develop housing strategies for their pastoral staff. She holds a joint degree in law and public policy and spent two decades in philanthropy and social impact work before launching Aslan in 2018. Her background gives her a systems-level view of a problem most church leaders have never named out loud.
Links
Website: https://aslan.org/
“Yeah, I’m Vehemently Pro-Pastor” — Nicole’s essay at Faith & Leadership: read it here
Nicole’s writing: glittercanon.com
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Chapters
00:00 Cold Open and Intro
01:12 Meet Nicole Aslan, CEO
02:08 Why Pastors Need Housing Help
05:10 Spreading Awareness Word of Mouth
08:51 Building a Church Housing Strategy
13:08 From Strategy to Homeownership
17:17 Investors IRAs Triple Return
20:58 DAFs Donations Transparency
24:15 Marketplace Housing Exchange
26:07 Faith Work Collision
28:56 Sharing Faith at Work Naturally
32:43 Planting Seeds at Work
33:38 Know What You Believe
35:54 Serve People Mindset
36:47 Collaboration Over Competition
41:07 Building Pastoral Housing Market
44:08 Marketplace and Money
49:33 Be Available to God
51:59 Keep Faith Simple
59:26 Final Takeaways and Sendoff