A WellSpr.ing initiative · Managed covenant cloud services
Your site. Your covenant. Our infrastructure.
Covenant-aligned hosting for churches, ministries, covenant merchants, schools, and caregivers. Ody builds from conversation. The infrastructure is provider-agnostic. You pay what you can.
47
Steward sites hosted free
12
Patron contributors
164
Area codes covered
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Intake to live site
12 Patron contributors are currently covering 47 Steward-tier sites hosted free of charge
What makes it different
Not a page builder
Ody conducts a 20–30 minute intake conversation and builds a production site from your actual story. Not a template. Not a wizard. A site that sounds like you.
Not vendor-locked
No single cloud provider is named in our covenant with you. The infrastructure is provider-agnostic by design. We hold the deployment keys and can migrate without you noticing.
Not Cloudflare-dependent
NetSentinel and the WellSpr.ing federated defense model provide resilient protection without ceding your threat intelligence to a commercial intermediary.
Not just a replacement
CovenantHosting builds two kinds of sites: translations of what you are, and entirely new ministry experiences that couldn't exist before Ody existed.
Choose your track
Track 1
Translation
You exist. Your digital presence doesn't reflect it yet.
"Tell me what your organization does — not the official description. The real one."
Ody reads your existing presence — Facebook page, old site, Yelp listing, whatever exists — and conducts an intake conversation that surfaces what makes your organization real. The site that emerges carries your voice, your programs, and your community role. AI-ready from day one.
The proof of conceptOverflow Church Tacoma. Saturday Table. Eleven years. 150 neighbors weekly. A Facebook page and a phone number. From intake to live site: under four hours. From invisible to AI-discoverable: immediate.
Track 2
Creation
A message that has no home yet. A threshold, not a page.
"Is there a message you carry that doesn't yet have a home? Something you believe to be true that hasn't found the people who need to find it?"
Not a church website. A threshold experience. A five-movement commissioning journey. A covenant formation site for a specific audience who would never walk into a building but will engage with a well-designed digital experience at 11pm when the question is live in them.
The canonical proof of conceptTheTimeOfTheReturn.com — built in a single session, specced by Claude, live the next day. A five-movement commissioning threshold. Visitors enter as seekers. They emerge with a named calling, a permanent dated record, and a community of co-laborers.
Sometimes both tracks apply to the same organization
A congregation may need a Translation site — the church homepage that makes Saturday Table findable — and a Creation site: a five-movement commissioning experience for the prophetic message their pastor carries that no church homepage could hold. CovenantHosting builds both. They link to each other. They are part of the same covenant ecosystem.
Track 2 — novel ministry sites
A site that commissions.
TheTimeOfTheReturn.com is the reference implementation. A five-movement threshold experience built in a single session. Not a church website. A new kind of ministry presence that couldn't exist before Ody existed.
thetimeofthereturn.com · live · built yesterday
I
The Witness
Scriptural and historical framing. Ody bears witness — not to convince, but to present. The visitor is given room to respond, question, or resist. The evidence is laid out. The conclusion is theirs.
Output: visitor acknowledgment of the witness
II
The Reckoning
Personal inventory. What is your life ordered around? What has been given to you? What has gone unsteered? Ody draws out an honest reckoning — without condemnation, without performance. The visitor names what they see.
Output: personal inventory statement
III
The Call
Discernment of individual commission. Ody conducts a structured interview — up to seven exchanges. The result is a named calling statement, drawn out from the visitor's own words and confirmed by them.
Public declaration. Seven covenant principles affirmed in the visitor's own words. This produces a permanent covenant record — date, calling statement, personal affirmation. No fees. No dark patterns.
Output: permanent dated covenant record + shareable URL
V
The Commons
Post-commissioning network. Covenant servants visible by area code. Practical co-laboring tools. Resource exchange. The visitor who entered alone leaves connected to a community of co-laborers they didn't know existed.
Service → Transition → Gift → Commission → Co-labor
Purpose after service
Young adult calling journey
Seven movements, Ody-guided, full calling interview
The question live in them at 11pm
Eight commitments
Our covenant with every hosted organization.
These commitments are published on this site and linked from every hosted site's footer. The covenant that governs the hosted organization governs the infrastructure.
I
No advertising
Ever. On any hosted site. Under any tier. The organization's visitors are not an audience to be monetized.
II
No data harvesting
The organization's visitor data belongs to the organization — not to CovenantHosting, not to any third party.
III
No vendor lock-in
Full site export available within 24 hours of any request. The site belongs to the organization, always.
IV
No pricing escalation
The offering model does not change based on traffic, growth, or organizational success.
V
No dark patterns
No upsells buried in onboarding. No features gated to create tier pressure. No guilt mechanics.
VI
Infrastructure migration without disruption
No single cloud provider is named in our covenant with you. If the underlying infrastructure changes, the hosted organization is unaffected and uninvolved. Provider-agnostic by design.
VII
NetSentinel protection, permanent
The defense layer does not expire and is not a paid feature. It deploys at build time and is never revoked.
VIII
Honest Ody
The intake conversation is not a sales conversation. Ody will tell an organization if CovenantHosting is not the right fit for what they need.
The offering model
Pay what you can, when you can.
Three covenant tiers. No degraded service at any tier. Full capability is available to every organization regardless of what they contribute.
For those who need it most
Steward
$0 / month · always free
+Full Ody intake conversation
+Production site built and deployed
+Managed cloud hosting, SSL, custom domain
+llms.txt + agent.json, AI-ready
+NetSentinel protection, permanent
+NNN.today civic profile linked
+Covenant seals embedded at build time
+Track 1 or Track 2 — both available
Most common offering
Neighbor
$15–25 / month suggested
+Everything in Steward
+Priority build queue
+Quarterly site refresh with Ody
+AI visibility analytics
+Calling interview widget embed
+CovenantCommerce integration
+Partially covers a Steward site
For those with margin to give
Patron
$50+ / month, your choice
+Everything in Neighbor
+Named in public Patron ledger
+Live counter: sites you're covering
+Multi-site management
+White-label for ministry networks
+Covers 2–4 Steward sites fully
At this moment, 47 Steward-tier sites are hosted free because 12 Patron contributors chose to extend their margin to neighbors they have never met. That number is live and on the homepage.
What ships with every site
Built in. Not bolted on.
Every CovenantHosting site — Track 1 or Track 2 — deploys with this baseline at build time.
llms.txt + agent.json
Machine-readable identity for every AI assistant. When a neighbor asks about your organization, the AI finds a structured, accurate, current answer — not silence.
At build time
NetSentinel
Federated site defense without Cloudflare dependency. Your site joins the covenant defense network immediately — contributing threat intelligence and benefiting from it.
At build time · permanent
Covenant seals
CovenantHosting, OfficialCovenant, TeacherCovenant, CaregiverCovenant, CovenantCommerce — auto-detected from your organization type and embedded at build time.
Auto-detected
NNN.today civic profile
Bidirectional link to your area code portal. Your organization appears as a community anchor — answering AI queries from neighbors who've never heard of you.
Track 1 · auto-linked
Calling interview widget
Optional. The WellSpr.ing calling interview embeds on your site — members access it from their spiritual home base, not an unfamiliar platform.
Optional · both tracks
TheTimeOfTheReturn commons
Track 2 sites connect to the post-commissioning community dashboard — covenant servants by area code, co-laboring tools, resource exchange.
Track 2 · auto-linked
"A site that commissions. A threshold that sends people out changed."
That second thing did not exist before Ody existed. CovenantHosting builds it — for any minister or servant who carries a message that hasn't yet found its full audience.
Tell Ody about your organization
This conversation is the intake. Ody will ask follow-up questions. The site that emerges carries your voice, your programs, and your community role. No template. No wizard.
We'll reach out at the email you provided to begin the conversation. Typical turnaround from intake to live site: under 4 hours for Track 1, 24–48 hours for Track 2.