Code Camp
Twelve-week cohorts that train local believers as web developers, then place them with ministries that need them. Teach a person to code and a ministry eats for a lifetime.
Tech missionary · Serving East Africa
Helping the global church spend less time fighting spreadsheets.
I’m Doug. I spent more than a decade building websites and apps for businesses. Now I help churches, orphan-care ministries, and Bible translation teams get the digital tools they need, and I train local developers so it all keeps running long after I’ve flown home.
Current statusExplaining to a pastor why “password1” is not a password.
“I once met a ministry tracking 1,400 sponsored kids in a single Word document. In a table. With merged cells. Nobody was okay.” Doug, still recovering
Why tech missions?
Broken tools cost ministries more than money.
Around the world, faithful ministries are doing incredible work on duct-taped technology. Their websites are hacked, their donor lists live on one laptop, and the one volunteer who “knows computers” moved away in 2019.
Every hour a pastor spends fighting a spreadsheet is an hour not spent with people. I want to give those hours back, and build local teams who can carry the work forward without me.
See what that looks like →
What I do
Three ways we’re serving the church.
Ministry Tech Rescue
Websites, donor records, email, and backups for churches and ministries, set up right, documented, and handed over to people who can maintain them.
Safe Online
Practical digital-security training for workers in sensitive places, because some of our partners can’t afford a data breach that ends in more than a bad day.
Since we landed
Small team, steady fruit.
38ministries with healthier tech
112local developers trained
9countries served remotely or in person
4,700+cups of coffee (a conservative estimate)
Latest from the field
Cohort 4 graduated, and nobody deleted production
Nineteen students. Twelve weeks. One power outage during final presentations that turned into the best lesson on backups I could have planned. Six grads have already been hired by local ministries…
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Monthly support
We’re 72% of the way to fully funded.
Monthly partners are the backbone of this ministry. They keep us on the field and let us say yes when a ministry needs help. If you’ve been thinking about it, this is your sign. (It’s a website. But still.)
Monthly support goal
$1,820/month to go. That’s 36 people giving $50, or one very enthusiastic person giving $1,820. We aren’t picky.
Pray with us
This month’s prayer requests
- Wisdom as Code Camp Cohort 5 applications open (we have 240 applicants for 20 spots).
- Health and rest for our team during rainy season.
- Two partner ministries moving their records off a single, very old laptop.
- The remaining monthly support to come in before our next budget review.