Nothing In
The Drawer.
Every ministry asks you to trust it. Give here. Send us your workers. Believe our 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. You can read the standard we use to vet candidates. 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. This is not a marketing posture. It is a discipline of honesty. What we teach, we publish. What we 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 curriculum and say, read it, and tell us if it is sound. Most of what missions organizations do stays in a drawer, and you are asked to assume it is good. We would rather you check. A gift is a serious thing. The people who give to us are trusting us with money they worked for and prayed over. The least we owe them is the ability to see what that money buys.
The frontier has real dangers, and they grow in the dark. Unvetted men get sent and call themselves pastors. Numbers get invented because no one can travel to count. Stories get shaped to raise the next round of support. Darkness is where these things live. 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, so anyone can see exactly what we teach national pastors.
Publish the candidate vetting standard in full, so you can measure every man we send 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, 501(c)(3) pending, giving not yet live.
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 training — 17 modules and all 208 sessions, readable online and downloadable.
The Standards
What we require of a man before your support reaches him, and what we believe.
The Honest Account
Where this young ministry actually stands — verified, in formation, and prohibited-until-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.
The Partners
The two established indigenous ministries we serve, in their own words and ours.
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.