Big News from the Carpool: We're a Nonprofit

Hey Carpool Crew, Pastor Justin here, and I've got some news that I've been waiting to tell you for a long time. Almost two years ago, I hit publish on a five-minute podcast that I made for my own kids to listen to on the way to school. Since then, families have pressed play more than a million times, with repeat listeners in all fifty states and more than ninety countries. Now, we've never run a single ad, not a single dollar, and you're parents, they know what that means. Every family who found this show found it because a parent like yours shared it in a Facebook group, texted it to some friends, left a rating and a review to make it easy for other families to search. Now, maybe for you it was a text to a friend or a post in a neighborhood Facebook group, or just a conversation in the pickup line with some other parents. You are the ones who built this. So here's the news. Carpooling with Jesus is officially a nonprofit, a big old 501(c)(3) public charity. Now, what changes in your car tomorrow? Nothing. Same five minutes and the same great conversation. And that's the point, because being a nonprofit locks in a couple important promises. First, Carpooling is still free Monday through Friday for every single family, and Goodnight Psalms is free every weekend. There's always gonna be something every single day that a family can listen to and have a conversation about. Second, there's never gonna be any ads. No ads, no sponsors, ever. No company is ever gonna buy this microphone and change your mornings into a sales call. And third, it's always gonna be a real person every single time. In a world of flying cars and AI, we have human pastors leading on Carpooling with Jesus, a human who checks every word and replies to every email. What it does change is how far the podcast can go. More families finding it in more cities and more countries. We're able to look at new things like the piloting of a Spanish edition of the podcast with a real pastor and a show for middle school and high school kids. These are some things we've wanted for a long time, but we haven't had the money or the time to do it. So far, everything on Carpooling with Jesus has been funded by Pastor Justin and our amazing subscribers. Now we're gonna be able to get a lot more help. Here's how you can help. $10 a month covers a kid's five minutes with Carpooling with Jesus every weekday for an entire month. So consider going over to carpoolingwithjesus.com/give. Every gift is tax-deductible. And one more thing, the show's not turning into a constant fundraiser. You'll hear me talk about it once in a while, that's it. The five minutes stay about Jesus. And if giving isn't where you are right now, do what you've always done. Listen to it, have a great conversation, and share it with other families. The Carpool is going, and we're gonna go further than ever before thanks to listeners like you in the Carpool Crew. Thanks for riding along with us, and we can't wait to see what happens next. Have a good one, everybody.