A Kingdom economic model
We believe in the transforming power of God's Word
In the ethnē app, the Bible will always be free to publish and use.
Free
- for every Bible translator who publishes into it
- for everyone who engages and shares Scripture
Accessible
- use and share without the Internet
- on budget phones and limited data plans
- in heart languages and all their forms: spoken, signed, or written
Permanent
- We built ethnē to give free and broad access to God's Word, and we are committed to keeping it that way.
Last Mile leaders publish and see the results. A Channel is how.
A Channel in the ethnē app is for:
- Your content, your way. Video, audio, PDFs, lesson plans: upload what you have. Channels fit any ministry and any method.
- Your reports. Real-time numbers on engagement and shares. They belong to you. Share them with a funder, a partner, or just your team.
ethnē listens to ministries, and ministries pay ethnē.
The Great Commission works best when the Last Mile leads. Payment makes the power to decide real. When you pay for a Channel, you are the client, and we answer to you, wherever you serve. You cover the ongoing costs of your own work, at a price set to fit your budget, and ethnē grows more sustainable with every ministry it serves.
How we scale ethnē
Ministries based elsewhere also buy Channels and partner with us on Breakthrough Projects. Champions (churches, individuals and teams, and impact donors) launch the languages translators publish, and build what no single ministry could build alone. And Last Mile ministries share what they have learned about faith in the hardest places with the Western church, when and how they choose. Every part giving, every part receiving.
The New Testament has a word for this pattern of giving and receiving: koinonia, communion, fellowship, partnership, participation. It also means a financial contribution. It carries both senses at once, and so do we.
"Your surplus will meet their need, so that in turn their surplus will meet your need. Then there will be equality." — 2 Corinthians 8:14
