How products fund mission. Service programs. The outward-facing life.

The flywheel, concretely

The community's product line generates revenue. A fixed, transparent, substantial percentage of every dollar — target is 50%+ of net revenue, codified in the legal shell — flows out as mission giving. The remainder funds the community's own costs (workshop materials, maintenance, salaries for those doing the full-time product work), further R&D, and a modest reserve.

Mission giving goes to three streams:

1. Missionaries sent from or connected to the community. Named, known, visited. Not a disembodied check to a faceless fund. The community prays for them by name.
2. Service work the community itself does. Feed-the-Homeless Fridays, the guest house, prison correspondence, disaster response when the time comes.
3. Partner ministries. A rotating portfolio of organizations doing the work the community believes in — Bible translation, church planting, crisis pregnancy support, recovery ministries, persecuted-church support.

The Send makes this flow visible. Every resident, every customer, every curious visitor to the website can see where the money has gone this month, this quarter, this year. Transparency is a form of worship, a form of accountability, and an invitation to others to do the same.

The service programs

Five concrete programs, each with its own rhythm and its own constituency. Together they make up the community's outward life.

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Thirsty Thursdays

Every Thursday: Scripture read aloud, water served, conversation at the pace of a table. Open to anyone. Hospitality and the gospel, both at once.

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Feed-the-Homeless Fridays

Every Friday a team serves a meal in a nearby town. Food from the garden in season. Names learned. Relationships built. The gospel offered in conversation, not at people.

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The Guest House

One home reserved for traveling missionaries, pastors on sabbatical, families in crisis, prospective residents, writers and theologians. Free of charge.

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Prison Correspondence

Residents matched with incarcerated people through a vetted ministry, committed to a year of regular letters. Low-visibility, high-impact — the work named on Matthew 25.

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Mission Partners

A portfolio of supported ministries, doctrinally sound, financially transparent, demonstrably effective. Published openly. Reviewed annually. Each named family in prayer.

A note on what doesn't change: every program is open about being run by Christians, run for Christ's sake, run because Scripture commands the love of neighbor. The name on the door is the name of Jesus. We do not hide the lamp under a bushel; we also do not weaponize the lamp. Hospitality and witness, both at once.

Open nights

Two of the community's regular gatherings are genuinely open to anyone:

• Tuesday teaching nights. Rotating series on Scripture, theology, Christian history, or practical discipleship. Visitors welcome, no registration required.
• Thirsty Thursdays. Described above.

“Genuinely open” means: no filtering at the gate, no uncomfortable vetting, no pressure to join anything. Come, eat, listen, go home. The community's job is to be a community; God's job is to save.

The annual mission report

Every February, the community holds a Mission Report Sunday. The whole community — plus product customers who want to fly in, plus local partners, plus curious visitors — gathers to hear:

• What came in from product revenue.
• Where it went.
• What the recipient missionaries and ministries did with it.
• Letters read aloud.
• Stories told.
• Thanksgiving given.

This is a deliberately public event. It is the community's accountability and its worship.

How customers of the products fit in

Every product customer is, by their purchase, a participant in the mission flywheel. The community's view of this is plain:

• Customers are not to be flattered (“you're changing the world!”). The language is plainer than that.
• Customers are not to be guilted (“buy more so we can give more”). The products are good on their own merits; the mission is an overflow, not a burden.
• Customers are to be told the truth, simply: a portion of your purchase funded this work, with numbers, with names, with receipts.

The Send makes this visible to customers too. A customer can look up their contribution to the mission flywheel — not as a tax receipt but as a witness: this is what your money did.

The test

Every quarter, the Stewards ask this question out loud together:

Are we serving more people, or just selling more products?

If the second is outpacing the first, something in the flywheel is broken and gets fixed.