The Lord’s Fund – Our Mission
THE LORD’S FUND — OUR MISSION
Lifting the Poor — Becoming Zion
Our Mission Is Simple: Establish Zion
Zion is not a brand, a building, or a corporation.
Zion is a people who prepare themselves to dwell with the Lord — becoming like Him through love, unity, and caring for one another.
“They were of one heart and one mind, and there was no poor among them.”
— Moses 7:18
Zion cannot rise where pride rules, where the needy are ignored, or where Babylon is loved more than Christ. The Lord’s Fund exists to gather a people who lift the poor, heal the wounded, and walk in the unity the Lord requires.
Why This Matters
The Lord dwells only among a people united in righteousness and mercy:
“That they all may be one…” — John 17:21
“Be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine.” — D&C 38:27
Zion is not created by programs or policy.
Zion is born when hearts choose charity over pride — when no one is left hungry, forgotten, or cast aside.
Why Zion Has Not Yet Been Built
The Lord Himself gave the reason:
“They are not united… nor do they impart of their substance to the poor.” — D&C 105:2–5
Where there is hoarding, there cannot be healing.
Where inequality thrives, Zion cannot stand.
What Happened to the Churches
Many churches have become polished corporations.
Their sanctuaries shine, their investments grow, yet the poor still beg at their doors.
My own experience revealed it painfully.
What began as simple help quickly became conditions, lectures, and judgment:
“You’re able-bodied. Get a job. Become self-reliant.”
Compassion was replaced by policy.
Mercy replaced by metrics.
The storehouse became a vault.
Jesus rebuked this apostasy in Matthew 23.
Isaiah called it “grinding the faces of the poor.”
Nephi warned that churches would love money, sanctuaries, and status more than the needy.
This is not Zion.
It is Babylon white washed to look like religion.
What We Believe
Zion begins with pure religion:
“To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…” — James 1:27
And Zion is fulfilled when:
- the poor are lifted
- the hungry are fed
- the afflicted are relieved
- the wounded are healed
- hearts are united in Christ
This is the path Enoch walked.
This is the society the Lord will return to.
Our Mission — Building a Zion Society
1. Lift the Poor First
Tithes and offerings serve people, not institutions.
2. Live the Law of Love
No one is turned away for failing a checklist.
Mercy outruns judgment.
3. Become One
We reject men who presume to decide who is “worthy” or “unworthy” of charity, compassion, and relief. We are all beggars before the same God.
The poor do not need to earn compassion or qualify for mercy.
Relief should never be filtered through interviews, policies, or judgment.
We refuse the pride that exalts the giver and shames the sufferer, for every child of God is worthy of love, worthy of help, and worthy of being lifted.
4. Prepare a People for the Lord
Babylon will fall.
Zion must rise — a people ready for the Lord to dwell with them.
What We Will Do
- Give 95%+ of all donations directly to people in need
- Provide timely aid: food, rent, utilities, healing care
- Work locally first — seeing real people with real needs
- Report outcomes transparently (while protecting privacy)
- Serve the one, not the crowd
How the Remaining 5% Is Used
A small portion supports unavoidable necessities:
basic administration, modest wages for those physically doing the relief work, communication, and essential operations.
No luxury.
No excess.
Just the tools required to lift the poor effectively.
What We Will Never Do
- Build great and spacious buildings while people hunger
- Invest the Lord’s money in Babylon’s markets
- Turn mercy into policy or judgment
- Become a 501(c) to please governments
- Use “self-reliance” as an excuse to reject the needy
- Glorify or idolize men
How Zion Is Built — The Scriptural Pattern
1. Consecrate → Distribute
What is given to the Lord must immediately lift His poor.
2. Seek Out the Needy
We go to the one, as Christ did — not waiting behind desks.
3. Measure by Mercy, Not Metrics
Heaven counts changed lives, not accumulated wealth.
4. Teach True Dependence — on Christ
We rely on Him, not on Babylon’s structures.
5. Reject Priestcrafts
(Priestcrafts: using religion to gain money, power, or praise — 2 Nephi 26:29)
We reject leaders who use sacred things for status or enrichment.
But we honor the Lord’s law that “the laborer is worthy of his hire.”
Those who labor to lift the poor may receive simple, modest wages for honest work — never luxury, never hierarchy, never excess.
No salaries for status.
No payments for prestige.
No leaders seeking praise.
Only service — humble, accountable, and centered on Christ.
6. Build Zion, Not a Brand
Unity, charity, holiness — the Lord’s pattern.
The Promise — What Zion Becomes
“Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men.”
— Revelation 21:3
“When the Lord shall come and dwell with His people.”
— Ether 13:7
“In the city of New Jerusalem shall the presence of the Lord be.”
— D&C 84:2
Zion is the destiny of a people purified in Christ—a community where the Lord Himself can dwell, where His presence is not symbolic but real, and where heaven and earth meet because hearts are one.
This is the promise:
a people so transformed by charity and unity that God can walk with them again.
A Call to Action
Zion will not descend fully formed.
It must be built — patiently, humbly, courageously — by disciples who love as Christ loves.
If your heart longs for Zion…
If the corruption of corporate religion grieves you…
If the Spirit stirs you to prepare a people for the Lord…
Then join us.
Give here.
Serve here.
Become one here.
And by the grace of Christ — let there be no poor among us.
