Why we give
In the story Jesus told, a man is beaten and left on the side of the road. A priest passes by. A Levite passes by. Then a Samaritan — a stranger, of all people — stops. He bandages the man, sets him on his own animal, takes him to an inn, and pays the bill out of his own pocket. Then he says he will come back to pay whatever else is owed.
He is the only one in the story we are told to be like.
New Testament Only is one of several companies our founder is building. He is a quietly giving Christian, and from the very first company he decided every company we build would set aside at least ten percent of its revenue for the people who could not pay the bill themselves yet. Not as marketing. As the thing the companies are for.
The programs below are how that ten percent will show up in the real world — free to the neighborhood, free to anyone who walks up, named place by named place, paid quarter by quarter.
What we are funding
Six ways to set the table for someone who cannot set it themselves.
#OpenTable
Real-food meal delivery for neighbors who cannot afford food today but will tomorrow. The line is dignity, never pity. We do not ask why you came. We are glad you did.
A plate, a seat, a name remembered.
#FirstPrayer
Free, no-strings prayer with a real human being for anyone who asks — by phone, by message, or in person at a community event. No sermon. No ask. We listen, we pray with you, we follow up if you want us to. Asking for help is a small, brave thing. We will be the one who picks up.
#CleanStreets
Volunteer community cleanups in the cities and towns where this channel finds an audience. Real bags, real gloves, real Saturday mornings. You do not have to be a Christian to show up. You only have to want your block to be better tomorrow than it was yesterday.
#BurialDignity
Funds toward dignified burial for children whose families cannot afford it. The grief is unspeakable; the bill should not add to it. We work through pre-vetted partner funeral homes and parishes — quietly, by referral, no campaigns, no photos of the dead.
#RebuildTheBroken
The aspirational one. One day we would love to help rebuild destroyed churches in Gaza and other places where the building, the people, and the faith itself have all been broken in the same blast. We are nowhere near big enough yet. We are telling you about it now so that when we are, you know exactly what we plan to do with the money.
#EnableTheGivers
The slow program that may matter most. Most of the people who would actually feed a stranger and bury a child for free are Christians who already do this quietly, with no infrastructure. We want to be the infrastructure — small grants, equipment, transport, insurance, training — so that Christians can help everyone else and not have to choose between their family's grocery bill and the neighbor's funeral.
The Good Samaritan Promise
At least ten percent of revenue. Every company. Always to a named place.
Not just New Testament Only. Every company our founder builds sets aside at least ten percent of its revenue for the people who cannot cover the bill yet — neighbors in need of a meal, a prayer with someone who will listen, a clean street to walk down, a dignified burial for a child, a roof rebuilt over a broken sanctuary.
If one of our programs lands in your town, you are invited to show up. Cook, pray, sweep, sit with someone who is grieving, or just bring a folding chair. We will publish what we raised and where it went, every quarter, right here — named places, named people, real receipts.
every company · published quarterly · always to a named place
How to be part of it
Three ways in.
Support on Patreon
Patreon revenue first covers production of the channel. Anything beyond production goes into this fund the moment the legal scaffolding is in place — and you will see it on a public ledger, every quarter, with receipts.
Show up locally
These are not mission trips that require an airline ticket. They happen in your city, your town, the next exit off the highway. Bring a folding chair. Bring a friend. Bring a meal you already cooked too much of.
Pray for the work
Quiet generosity is still generosity. If all you can give right now is a prayer that this channel keeps telling the truth and the money goes where it is supposed to go — that is enough. That is the table too.
The bigger picture
Our long goal is bigger than meals and clean streets. We would love, one day, to rebuild destroyed churches in Gaza. To pay for the proper burial of children whose parents cannot. To revive a beaten faith in places where the faith has been beaten out of people by the very institutions that were supposed to carry it.
We are telling you this now, when we are small, because the size of the ambition is the size of the door we are leaving open. The way to the Father is through what Jesus taught: that God is love, present in you and around you and in everyone. Understand that, and you are already connected to God — no priest, no temple, no tribe, no gate. Christians are called to help everyone — and our job, as an organization, is to help the Christians who are already helping, and to keep enlarging the table until the tribal God loses his grip, because the table is too full and the bread keeps multiplying.
One last image
A grandmother teaching a stranger how to fold the bread. A man who has not eaten well in a week, eating well tonight, beside a woman who has come back to faith after years away. A child who was buried with dignity because someone you have never met paid the bill. A Saturday morning where the block is a little cleaner and a small group of people who did not know each other on Friday share coffee on the curb.
You already belong to this. We are only setting the table.