FaithTech

What FaithTech is

FaithTech is a directory and events calendar for a global network of Christians working in technology, plus the programmes that network runs. The core of the site is a grid of 57 community tiles - 52 named cities and 5 online regional groups covering the Americas, Asia, East Africa, MENA and West Africa. Each tile opens a city page with a leadership team, a mailing list form, a donate button and an upcoming-events slot. Event registration goes out to Eventbrite; ongoing conversation happens in a Slack workspace the 2025 report puts at 6,330 members.

Around that sit three programmes. Create is the build track: volunteer teams take a pitched problem through Discover, Discern, Develop and Demonstrate, documented in a free Playbook. Story Nights are talk evenings. Awaken 2026 is the invite-only summit in Monterey, California, billed as the community's first global gathering in ten years.

A method, not just a mailing list

Most vocational faith communities give you a room and a speaker. FaithTech gives you a published framework and asks you to ship something with it. The 4D cycle - Discover, Discern, Develop, Demonstrate - is downloadable as a PDF, taught at events and used to structure Create teams. The vocabulary is deliberate: the impact report quotes a Create12 participant crediting Lament and Redemptive Imagination with changing how he defined a problem.

The organisation also has an unusual top end. The 2025 report describes a week-long leadership summit in Hawaii for board, staff and city leads, a MENA summit in Dubai that put 60 builders on 6 projects, and a three-day retreat in California for the leaders of Christian employee groups at Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon. That is access almost nothing else in this space has, and it is why FaithTech matters even where its chapters are quiet.

The city directory - 57 tiles, 9 calendars

The directory is the reason to visit and the reason to be careful. Reading every city page on 6 August 2026, 48 of the 57 returned the site's own line: No events scheduled right now, check back soon. The nine with something booked were Brisbane, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, London, Newcastle, Orlando and Vancouver, carrying 24 upcoming events between them. Toronto and Waterloo - the founding city, where the CEO lives - were both empty. The global calendar's Previous list shows only the six most recent past events, all from July 2026, which adds Sheffield and Lisbon as recently active. That is 11 of 57 with any evidence of life in the past month or ahead.

The listing has other soft edges. Waco appears in the 2025 Impact Report's city list and in the sitemap, but faithtech.com/communities/waco returns HTTP 404 and Waco is not on the index. Six communities on the index - Los Angeles, Campinas, Manchester, Metro Manila, Newcastle and Seoul - are absent from the report's list. Sub-Saharan Africa exists only as East Africa Online and West Africa Online; Cairo is the sole physical African city. None of this proves a quiet chapter is dead. It does mean 50 is a count of tiles, not of calendars.

Create and Create12 - the build programme

Create replaced FaithTech Labs during 2025. The FAQ describes two commitments: short-form hackathons and sprints run periodically in cities, and a long-form version where teams gather weekly and work the 4D cycle in planned stages. Create12, piloted in 2025 across four cities, is a 12-week structured innovation cohort for builders, designers, founders and innovators. Support offered is the Playbook and Workbook, a mentor network, and a Slack channel for your team. Published 2025 output is 96 active projects, 768 active builders and 30 deployments.

What is not published is the shape of the commitment. There is no application form, no cohort dates, no cost and no cap on the Create pages; the answer to how can I get involved is to find a meetup and learn about the opportunities to participate locally. Pitching a problem is better documented: record a one-minute pitch video, submit details, and the team follows up. The terms say you retain ownership of what you submit and grant FaithTech a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use and promote it, but say nothing about who owns code a Create team writes together.

Awaken 2026 - and the two dates on one page

Awaken is the conference, and not one you can buy a ticket to. The page describes an invite-only gathering for the FaithTech community and strategic tech leaders, aiming for 250 hand-picked guests, at the Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds on the Monterey coast, 24 to 26 September 2026. Cost is approximately USD $1,000 per participant covering accommodation, food and event logistics, with subsidies case by case and shuttles from SFO, SJC and MRY. Nomination is the route in.

The same page then contradicts itself. A second FAQ block on the same URL says Awaken will run from February 24 to 26, 2027, that it is invite-only for FaithTech staff, City Leads and teams, and strategic partners and donors, that it targets 300 to 400 guests, that RSVP opens in March 2026 with confirmations by March 31, and that the cancellation deadline is April 30, 2026. The first block says RSVP opens April 2026, confirmations and cancellation by July 15. Same venue, same $1,000, two dates, two audiences, two capacities. Read both before booking travel.

Pricing

Where FaithTech falls behind

The listing does not match the calendar. This is the central problem. A community organisation's value to an individual is binary: either it meets near you or it does not. Publishing 57 city tiles when 48 show nothing scheduled sets most visitors up for a dead end, and because city pages show no past events there is no way to distinguish a chapter between seasons from one that has quietly folded. A last-met date on each tile would fix this in an afternoon.

No Form 990, and the audit is on request only. ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer records FaithTech, EIN 84-2841443, as not required to submit tax filings because the IRS designates it as a church, so the document American donors normally use to check a charity does not exist. The Canadian entity, charity registration 79235 9705 RR0001, files a T3010 with the CRA, but the site links neither that return nor any statement, and the donate FAQ offers the annual independent audit only by writing to hello@faithtech.com. For an organisation moving over $1.5m a year, a PDF on the website would be a lower bar.

The published financials contradict themselves. The 2025 Impact Report's finance section gives revenue of USD $1,595,916 and expenses of USD $1,170,117, then breaks those expenses down twice, differently. One breakdown reads Program 88.71% ($1,038,006), Staff 0.37% ($4,300), Admin and Rent 10.92% ($127,811). The other reads Program plus Generosity Fund ($323,124), Staff ($719,182), Admin and Rent ($127,811). Both sum to exactly $1,170,117, so the same money is allocated two incompatible ways: staff is either 0.37 per cent of spending or 61.5 per cent of it. We report both because both are published, and we are not in a position to say which is right.

The headline counts do not agree either. The donate page says In 50 Cities and 20 countries; the Awaken page repeats 50 cities and 20 countries; the 2025 Impact Report says 196 events across 50 cities and 22 countries. The donate page also carries two stat blocks, one labelled TECHNOLOGISTS MOBILIZED IN 2025 768 and the other TECHNOLOGIST MOBILIZED IN 2026 768 - the same figure attributed to two years on one page. The city index has 57 tiles. None of these is a scandal; together they suggest numbers that are not refreshed as a set.

Small signs of a site running ahead of its maintenance. The footer read Copyright 2025 FaithTech in August 2026, placeholder Lorem ipsum strings appear appended to entries in the Previous events list and on the Story Nights page, and the retired Labs subdomain no longer resolves over HTTPS. Individually trivial; collectively, a reason to verify a chapter directly rather than trusting the grid.

FaithTech vs. Faith Driven Entrepreneur vs. Faithly

Faith Driven Entrepreneur is the closest peer in ambition and the opposite in delivery. It runs free courses, videos, podcasts and facilitated groups as a media-and-curriculum operation with mobile apps, so what you get does not depend on your postcode. FaithTech's proposition is the reverse: the value is a room full of local technologists, superb where a chapter is active and worth nothing where it is not.

Faithly.co is a professional network for ministry - profiles, jobs, groups, events, messaging - and it solves discovery rather than gathering. It tells you who exists; it will not put you in a room on a Wednesday evening. Faith.tools, the directory carrying the FaithTech listing, is the same shape one level up: a free index of Christian software, useful for finding things and not intended to convene anybody. FaithTech is the only one of the four that will hand you a hackathon.

Outside our covered set, Kingdom Code in the UK does something structurally similar with a narrower footprint and suits British readers - FaithTech London's own BUILD 2026 hackathon on 9 October sits in that ecosystem. Develop.Me is the useful contrast on cohorts: it publishes tiers at $59 to $269 and states exactly what a cohort costs, which the Create pages decline to do.

Alternatives to FaithTech

Faith Driven Entrepreneur★ 4.9Free courses, videos, podcasts and facilitated groups for Christians in business, delivered as media rather than meetups - so what you get does not depend on whether a local chapter is active.→Faithly.co★ 4.9A professional network for ministry with profiles, jobs, groups and messaging. Better for finding people and roles; it will not convene a hackathon in your city.→FFaith.tools★ 4.3The free directory that carries the FaithTech listing. Useful for discovering Christian software, and a reminder that its own listing calling FaithTech an app is not accurate - there is no iOS or Android build.→Develop.Me★ 4.9Christian leadership courses and cohorts with published pricing from $59 to $269. The instructive contrast: it states exactly what a cohort costs, which FaithTech Create does not.→KKingdom Code★ 4.0A UK community of Christian technologists running its own BUILD hackathon, overlapping with FaithTech London. Narrower footprint, but a reasonable substitute for British readers outside the active cities.→

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