Founders & Story
Who is building this, and why.
Hallelujah Hills is being founded by two people in the first instance, with capacity to add co-founders and collaborators as the work grows. The roles below describe the actual work split in the early years — not titles for marketing.
The early-years roles
Builder · Lead Engineer
[Name to be added]
Technical lead on the products. First author of code and hardware. Responsible for the Greeter, the Lamp, and the platform that the rest of the catalog will build on. Sets the privacy posture into actual silicon and software.
Shepherd · Community Lead
[Name to be added]
Primary relational role with residents, Elders, and partner ministries. Responsible for the rhythms of the community, the welcome of visitors, the doctrinal posture, and the relationships with the missionaries and ministries the products fund.
Compensation is set by the Elders, modest, and public within the community. As the community grows, additional roles emerge: workshop lead, garden lead, music lead, service coordinator, pastoral care.
The story so far
Hallelujah Hills is in formation. The vision was written down before the first acre was chosen, before the first home was placed, before the first product shipped. That is on purpose: a Christian community that takes ten years to do well is better than one that takes two and doesn't.
Phase 1 is site acquisition, infrastructure, and the founding cluster of homes. The Greeter ships as the first product, built in the community's own workshop. Phase 2 grows to forty homes and ships the Lamp and the Hymnal. Phase 3 grows to eighty and brings the full catalog — the rough scale at which the community can still know itself by name.
For the longer description, see The Community and Vision.
The long view
A healthy Christian institution should be able to outlast its founders without losing itself. The structures we have written into the founding documents exist to make that possible: an Elder council that can block doctrinal drift, a written covenant, a 50%+ mission-giving threshold codified in the legal shell, a community vote on major changes, public books.
The founders should hold their roles loosely, train their successors deliberately, and rejoice when the work goes on without them.
The verses underneath the project
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” — John 3:16
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.” — Colossians 3:23
“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” — James 4:15
“Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it.” — Psalm 127:1
The first names the gospel. The second drives the work. The third holds it loosely. The fourth sets it in the only architect's hands that can do anything with it.