CORRESP

In connection with the filing of our responses to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“Commission”) comments from its Sarbanes-Oxley 2015 Annual Report Review, GuideStone Funds (“Registrant”) acknowledges that:

SEC Staff Comment

Comment #1

Annual Report

General Comment

Several Funds held loans or bonds issued by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., valued at approximately 89-97% of par as of 12/31/15. Please provide supplementally any adjustments that have been made to those valuations since 12/31/15.

GuideStone Funds’ Response

The Funds priced those loans and bonds issued by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. as follows as of the dates indicated in the charts below:

Global Bond Fund


*Security*	*12/31/15*		*1/31/16*		*2/29/16*		*3/31/16*		*4/29/16*
Bond (6.125%, 04/15/25 144A)	$	89.50	$	90.125	$	84.1875	$	77.25	$	83.788
Term BF1 Loan (4.00%, 04/01/22)	$	95.975	$	96.114	$	93.363	$	94.292	$	97.40

Flexible Income Fund


*Security*	*12/31/15*		*1/31/16*		*2/29/16*		*3/31/16*		*4/29/16*
Bond (6.375%, 10/15/20 144A)	$	97.00	$	96.50	$	92.25	$	83.50	$	91.125
Term BF1 Loan (4.00%, 04/01/22)	$	95.975	$	96.114	$	93.363	$	94.292	$	97.40

Note that $60,000 par of a bond holding in Valeant was sold from the Global Bond Fund on March 15, 2016 at a price of $81.50.

With respect to the loan issued by Valeant, it has a sinking fund provision, which has reduced the par outstanding on the loan over time. The loan received multiple sinking fund payments at $100 (par) in the first four months of 2016 (on 1/21/16 and on 4/1/16).


SEC Staff Comment		GuideStone Funds’ Response
Comment #2 Annual Report MyDestination Funds, Asset Allocation Funds, Extended-Duration Bond Fund, Global Bond Fund, Defensive Market Strategies Fund and Real Assets Fund These Funds compare their performance to a benchmark that is a composite index. Form N-1A, Item 27(b)(7) and Instruction 5 thereto require a Fund’s primary benchmark to be an “appropriate broad-based securities market index” (defined as one that is administered by an organization that is not an affiliated person of the Fund, its investment adviser, or principal underwriter, unless the index is widely recognized and used). Please indicate whether using these composite indices as primary benchmarks for these Funds is consistent with this requirement and, if not, how GuideStone Funds intends to remedy.		GuideStone Funds will conform future annual reports to shareholders to the presentation of annual total returns in the Funds’ prospectus. Accordingly, the broad-based securities market index and additional broad-based securities market indexes will be presented first, followed by the composite index, which will be designated as a “composite index” rather than a “benchmark index.”

Comment #3 Annual Report MyDestination Funds and Asset Allocation Funds Please explain the significant variation in these Funds’ portfolio turnover rates over the two most recently completed fiscal years. See Item 16(e) of Form N-1A.		The variations in the portfolio turnover rates for these Funds were due to changes in the target and potential ranges for allocating the Funds’ assets among the underlying funds in which they invest. The revised allocations were disclosed in a supplement to the Funds’ prospectus dated November 18, 2015 and were implemented during the 2015 fiscal year. In the SAI dated May 1, 2016, the following disclosure was included (please note that the MyDestination Funds are referred to collectively in the SAI as the “Target Date Funds”): During the 2015 fiscal year, the Target Date Funds and Asset Allocation Funds experienced higher turnover due to revised allocations among the Select Funds.

Comment #4 Annual Report Written Credit Default Swaps Please confirm that when a Fund sells protection under a credit default swap, it will “cover” the full notional amount of the swap.		Each sub-adviser to a Fund agrees in its mandate to “cover” the full notional amount of sold (written) credit default swaps.


SEC Staff Comment		GuideStone Funds’ Response
Comment #5 Annual Report Fair Value Hierarchy For recurring fair value measurements categorized within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy, please disclose a narrative description of the sensitivity of the fair value measurement to changes in unobservable inputs, and a description of interrelationships between those inputs and other unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurement. See FASB ASC 820-10-50-2 and AICPA Audit and Accounting Guide 7-78.		As disclosed in the annual report, in accordance with FASB “Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S.GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”),” management has not presented such a narrative description for the securities categorized within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy which are advisor priced or valued by the valuation committee as there were no adjustments to prices received from third parties as of December 31, 2015.

Comment #6 Annual Report Low-Duration Bond Fund, Medium-Duration Bond Fund and Extended-Duration Bond Fund Please inform the Staff of the actual duration of each Fund during the past fiscal year, and consider disclosing this information in the Management Discussion of Fund Performance section of shareholder reports going forward.		As reported on Fund fact sheets (sourced from sub-advisers and compiled by the Funds), the duration of each Fund at fiscal year-end (December 31, 2015) was 1.8 years, 5.4 years and 13.2 years, for the Low-Duration Bond Fund, Medium-Duration Bond Fund and Extended-Duration Bond Fund, respectively. The Registrant will disclose this information in the Management Discussion of Fund Performance section of shareholder reports going forward.

Comment #7 Annual Report International Equity Fund The Statement of Operations for this Fund reflects dividends and interests on securities sold short; however, the prospectus Fee Table for this Fund does not contain this line item. Please explain.		Dividend or interest expenses related to securities sold short amounted to less than one basis point and are included in the “Other expenses” line item of the Fund’s fee table, rather than in a separate line item. The Registrant confirms that, to the extent the Fund engages in short sales, any dividend or interest expenses related to securities sold short that equal one basis point or more will be included separately as a sub-caption to the “Other expenses” line item of the Fund’s fee table.

Comment #8 Annual Report Real Estate Securities Fund The Schedule of Investments indicates that 51.9% of the Fund’s assets were invested in common stocks in the financial services sector at year-end, and the investments in this category appear to be equity interests in REITs. Please consider whether it would be more appropriate to categorize this Fund’s investments by the sub-sectors of the real estate industry rather than as “financial services” going forward.		The Fund uses the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) to classify its investments by industry and sector. GICS is a global listed equity classification system and is maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI Inc. Currently, equity REITs and other listed real estate companies are classified in the Financials Sector according to GICS. However, S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI Inc. have announced that they plan to move stock exchange-listed equity REITs and other listed real estate companies from the Financials Sector into a new Real Estate Sector within GICS. The implementation date for the creation of a new Real Estate Sector is after the market close on August 31, 2016. The Fund will modify its classification of equity REITs accordingly going forward.


SEC Staff Comment		GuideStone Funds’ Response
Comment #9 Annual Report Real Estate Securities Fund The prospectus for the Fund states that the Fund is non-diversified; however, the Notes to Financial Statements states that each Fund is diversified. Please explain and resolve this discrepancy between the prospectus and the financial statements. In addition, it appears that the Fund has operated as a diversified fund during the past three fiscal years. Accordingly, please confirm that the Fund will obtain shareholder approval before changing its sub-classification back to non-diversified in the future.		The Registrant confirms that the Real Estate Securities Fund has operated as a diversified fund during the past three fiscal years, and therefore is classified as diversified by operation of law. Accordingly, the Fund’s prospectus and SAI dated May 1, 2016 removed the references to the Fund as a non-diversified fund, and there is no discrepancy between the prospectus and the financial statements. The Registrant further confirms that the Fund will obtain shareholder approval should it propose to change its classification to a non-diversified fund in the future.

Comment #10 Annual Report Global Natural Resources Equity Fund The Management Discussion of Fund Performance indicates that the Fund’s benchmark changed during the fourth quarter of 2015. Instruction 7 to Item 27(b)(7) of Form N-1A requires a Fund that uses an index that is different from the one used for the immediately preceding fiscal year to explain the reason(s) for the change and compare the Fund’s annual change in the value of an investment in the hypothetical account with the new and former indexes. Accordingly, please show both the new and former benchmark index performance in future filings.		The Fund did not change its primary broad-based securities market index. As disclosed in the Fund’s prospectus dated May 1, 2016, historically, the Fund has compared its performance to its primary broad-based index, the MSCI World Commodity Producers Index, as well as another broad-based index (the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index) and a composite index. Effective December 1, 2015, the Fund will compare its performance only to its primary broad-based index because that index is composed of securities which more closely compare to the Fund’s portfolio. As required by Form N-1A, the Fund’s prospectus dated May 1, 2016 provides this explanation and includes return information for the former indexes as well as the primary index.

Comment #11 Annual Report General Comment The prospectus Fee Table for several Funds includes a footnote regarding waivers of shareholder service fees, but does not indicate whether the waivers are contractual in nature and that they will be in place for at least one year from the date of the prospectus. See October 2, 1998 letter from Barry D. Miller, Associate Director of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management, to the Investment Company Institute. Please explain supplementally how GuideStone Funds will remedy.		Each Fund is subject to a contractual fee waiver agreement with certain affiliated entities of the Funds’ investment adviser that obligate such entities to waive fees of the Fund in the amount of any shareholder service fees charged by another series of the Registrant in which the Fund invests (i.e., an underlying fund). The footnotes to the prospectus Fee Table for the applicable Funds have been revised accordingly in the Funds’ prospectus dated May 1, 2016.