God Did Something We Didn’t Plan For.
The Orthodox Christian Parenting Podcast is reaching families at a scale we never expected. And we need $150,000 to meet the moment.
CAMPAIGN GOAL
$150,000
to help us reach Orthodox parents every week
250 people + $100/month
keeps this going all your long
Start here. Michelle Moujaes, Executive Director of Faithtree Resources, shares what's happening—and why it can't stop now.
What We’re Seeing
We didn't see this coming. We set out to make a podcast for Orthodox Christian parents that was honest, practical and helpful for families raising their children in the Faith in the middle of real, ordinary, complicated life. We worked hard, we prayed and we trusted God with the rest. And then the views, shares, comments and emails started coming.
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Parents say something has shifted in their home.
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An episode motivated a mother to send a long-overdue letter to her adult children.
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A lifelong student of Orthodox parenting (30 years!) called this the best content she’s seen.
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Clergy and ministry leaders are building parenting classes around our episodes.
We've shared what we're seeing with people who spend their careers building podcast audiences. Their response has been consistent: What's happening here isn't normal. The growth, the impact, the way this content is traveling. They keep using the word miraculous.
We believe them. And we believe we have a responsibility to continue showing up where God is moving.
To go from seasonal episodes to weekly episodes and meet Orthodox parents where they are every single week, we need to raise $150,000.
We know that's a serious number. And we wouldn't ask if we didn't believe the moment calls for it.
What’s at stake
When you pause between seasons, podcast apps stop suggesting your content to potential listeners. Parents who were enjoying our content stop seeing it. And families who need it the most may never find it at all.
Why weekly matters
Orthodox parents are struggling to raise children who know and love God and His Church in a world that is working hard against them. We meet them there—in the noise, the uncertainty, the exhaustion—with honest, practical guidance. And we believe God is calling us to keep meeting them.
The monthly gift goal
The most powerful way to make that happen is through a monthly gift. We need 250 people to commit to $100 a month. That keeps this sustainable, week after week, all year long, without pause. Your gift makes that possible.
The most powerful way to help is through a monthly gift.
We need 250 people to commit to $100 a month. That keeps the podcast sustainable, week after week, all year long, without pause.
A word for grandparents
You know what it means to carry the next generation in your heart. To sit in liturgy and pray for your grandchildren. To want the faith that has held you to hold them too: in their homes, in their families, in the lives they're building.
This podcast is reaching their parents right now. The conversations they are having at home because of what they're hearing are the ones forming the children you pray for. Your monthly gift is part of that. It's not a small thing. It's the Great Commission moving through an ordinary act of generosity.
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From those who have been listening to the podcast
"I have been Orthodox for 30 years and a parent for 27 years. I have spent my adult life studying how to be an Orthodox parent. This is THE best video on Orthodox parenting I have ever seen. Sharing this with every parent I know!"
"I just sent to our kids with an apology for not always getting it right and included encouragement to one day reference this beautiful series and use it as a guide for their family. God will continue to bless the work Faithtree does because it is His work through many dedicated hands."
“This changed my parenting and helped me and my daughter in our most difficult time. Grateful. God bless.”
“I'm not Orthodox . . . and this is the best discussion on parenting I have ever seen or heard. It made me cry, and I'm not usually a crier. I'm 62, a mother of five including an adult son with special needs, and this changed something in me from the very first viewing.”
We are so grateful.
For every person who has listened, shared, written in, and prayed for this work: thank you. We know the world feels hard right now. Loud and turbulent and sometimes frightening. But we also know the freedom Orthodox families are looking for—the peace, the rootedness, the sense that there is something solid underneath everything—comes from a life in the Church. That's what we're here to support. We believe God opened a window. We want to be found faithful to it. And we can't do it without you.
— Michelle Moujaes, Executive Director, Faithtree Resources