Nothing In
The Drawer.
Every ministry asks you to trust it: to give, to send your workers, to believe its reports. ENDS is young, and young ministries have no track record to point to. So we do not ask for your trust on our word. We try to earn it by showing our work. On this site you can read our entire training curriculum, online and as PDFs. It is a Draft v0.1, awaiting theological review and not yet piloted. You can read the written standard candidates will be vetted against. You can read our statement of faith, an honest account of how new we are, and, when real gifts come in, where the money goes. We mean this as a discipline of honesty: what we plan to teach and what we will require, we publish.
The ReasonWhy We Publish Everything.
Donors deserve verification, not vibes. It is easy to write a moving appeal. It is harder to hand you the actual draft curriculum and say, read it, and tell us if it is sound. We would rather you check than assume. A gift is a serious thing. Anyone who gives to this work will be trusting us with money they worked for and prayed over. The least we owe them is the ability to see what that money will buy.
Any ministry, ours included, can drift when no one can see its workings. A man can be sent before he is ready. A number can be guessed at because no one can travel to count. A story can be shaped to raise support. Those temptations grow in the dark. So we put our vetting standard in the open, where you can hold us to it. We would rather be caught by a careful reader than protected by a closed door. A young ministry especially owes the public its workings. We have not earned the benefit of the doubt yet, and we should not ask for it.
This is also a matter of faithfulness. Whoever is faithful in little is faithful in much, and we are, right now, a ministry with little. How we handle this small and early stage is the truest sign of how we will handle a larger one. So we mean to be plain. Let your yes be yes and your no be no. When we know something, we will say we know it. When we do not, we will say that too. We would rather tell you a smaller true thing than a larger impressive one.
The CommitmentsSeven Standing Promises.
Publish the entire training curriculum, readable online and downloadable as PDFs, and label it plainly while it is a draft, so anyone can see exactly what we plan to teach national pastors.
Publish the candidate vetting standard in full, so that once it is applied you can measure every candidate against the same bar we hold ourselves to.
Label anything illustrative as illustrative, and never let an example, a stock photo, or a composite stand in as a real report.
Hedge our statistics honestly, marking what is measured, what is estimated, and what we simply do not yet know.
State the stage we are actually in, plainly: young, in formation, not yet recognized as a 501(c)(3), giving not yet open.
Publish our finances once real gifts flow, showing where the money goes in terms an ordinary person can follow.
Correct our errors in public, at the point where they were made, and tell you what we changed and why.
The LibraryEverything, In One Place.
The Curriculum
The entire 24-month design — 17 modules and all 208 sessions, readable online and downloadable. Draft v0.1: awaiting theological review, not yet piloted, not approved for field use.
The Standards
What we will require of a man before any support reaches him, and what we believe.
The Honest Account
Where this young ministry actually stands: what is verified, what is in formation, and what we will not claim until it is true.
For Churches
Everything a missions committee needs to weigh, teach, and lead a partnership.
The Writing
More than fifty essays and guides on the unfinished task, searchable and free.
Our Partners and the Places We Serve
The two established indigenous ministries we partner with among the nations, in their own words and ours, and our hope to plant a church in rural America that grows into a hub.
The InvitationCome In And Look.
So check everything. Read the curriculum, page by page. Read the vetting standard and see whether it is strict enough. Read our statement of faith and weigh it. If something on this site is wrong, unclear, or overstated, tell us, and we will fix it and say that we did. We are young, and we would rather be corrected now than trusted blindly. The door is open. Come in and look around.