In his own words.
In 2023, I found myself on my face before my Creator.
I had been honorably discharged from the U.S. Army several months prior, after spending the final year and a half of my contract facing ostracization and persecution for my religious beliefs. My refusal to receive an experimental treatment had branded me untrustworthy in the eyes of my own community. On the same day I received that verdict, my home church refused to advocate on my behalf. I felt betrayed, abandoned, and rejected — and on top of all of that, I had received threats of dishonorable discharge, imprisonment, and a direct threat against my life from a superior officer.
By God's grace, I endured. I clung to the Rock, Jesus Christ, as everything built on sand was washed away. I moved back to Seattle. I took a dangerous job on wind turbines and spent three months traveling the countryside, working with my hands, rebuilding from nothing. I left that job when I realized that no money was worth the prolonged separation from those whom I loved.
In March of 2023, I had an encounter with God that changed me from the inside out. All of hell couldn't stop me from sharing the good news — and because of that eagerness, I didn't last long at my next job either. I took that as an invitation into full-time evangelism. My days were full of Bible study, prayer, worship, and waiting. I didn't have a plan, I only knew to obey.
My wife Kalei was pregnant with our daughter Samantha. Our savings were gone.
It was in that hour that the Lord gave me a vision. A social media network for charities and churches. A platform that enabled people like me to give, regardless of amount. Through a familiar double-tap, someone could give whatever was within their means — two pennies or ten thousand dollars. A simple application, positioned just in time to help steward the generosity of a revival.
With man this is impossible. But with God, all things are possible.
One Kingdom. Three callings.
What God showed me to build.
The Kingdom Economy
Most giving asks one question: how much? Xerish asks a different one: into what? The Kingdom Economy reframes generosity from a financial obligation into a spiritual investment. Your heart is the greatest asset you steward. And the surest way to secure it in eternal things is to send your treasure there consistently, faithfully, and with full knowledge of what it is becoming.
“Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”Matthew 6:33
Reforming Generosity
Many Givers have not stopped caring. They have stopped trusting. Somewhere along the way — an unexpected fee, an unanswered question about overhead, a recurring charge that took three phone calls to cancel — the system taught them that generosity was risky. Xerish was built to reverse that lesson. Reforming Generosity is not about extracting more from Givers. It is about rebuilding the conditions under which Givers freely choose to give more. Real trust because of real truth. Real-time impact metrics. Personal vetting of every organization. A community that holds itself to the F.I.G.S. standard. When Givers know that what they find on Xerish has already been examined, they give with confidence instead of caution. When they can see the work, they stay. When they trust the platform, they give more.
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble.”James 1:27
Uniting the Body of Christ
Stewardship is discipleship. A congregation discipled in generosity does not just give more — it becomes more. More invested in the eternal. More connected to the global Body. More aligned with what God values. Xerish gives pastoral leadership a tool to teach that alignment week by week, gift by gift, impact by impact. Not a giving processor. A discipleship infrastructure. Built so that every member — regardless of what they have — can participate in what the whole Body is building together.
“That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you.”John 17:21
The Mark
The Taw — a cross before the cross.
The cross was not an accident of history. The Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world.
Our willful sin has earned us an eternity apart from God — separated from the only source of life, light, and love that exists. That is the weight of what we chose. And it is a burden none of us could carry back.
But God, rich in mercy and abounding in steadfast love, did not leave us there. He sent His own Son on a rescue mission — into our world, into our flesh, into our condemnation. Jesus died the death we deserved. His blood sealed our pardon. As Paul wrote: “He who knew no sin became sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”
The cross is where the great price was paid. When we see it, we know two things that cannot be separated: we are loved, and we are redeemed. Pulled from hell. Reconciled to the Father. Not because we earned it — because He paid it with His own blood.
This is why the Taw is the mark of Xerish. Not as decoration. Not as branding. As declaration. Everything built here is built under the sign of that cross — the shape that has always meant: the price has been paid, and you belong to the One who paid it.
The logo mark in Xerish is the Taw — the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In ancient Paleo-Hebrew script, Taw was written as an X or a cross. Long before Calvary, the shape of the cross was already inscribed into the Hebrew language. God embedded it into Scripture across centuries, in patterns that only make sense looking backward from Calvary.
Genesis 22
Isaac and the wood
Isaac carried the wood for his own sacrifice up Moriah. The weight of the offering was placed on the one who would be offered. This is the posture of a condemned man carrying his crossbeam. “God will provide the lamb,” Abraham said. He was more right than he knew.
Exodus 12
Blood on the doorposts
The Passover blood was applied on the lintel and the two doorposts — forming a cross across the frame of every Israelite door. A lamb's blood. The shape of a cross. Paul would later write: “Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.” The doorframe was always telling the story.
Numbers 21
The serpent lifted up
Israel was dying. God's remedy: look to the one lifted up and live. Jesus named the fulfillment explicitly: “Just as Moses lifted up the snake, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life.” Look up. Behold Him.
Isaiah 53
The suffering servant
Seven hundred years before crucifixion existed, Isaiah wrote the portrait. Pierced. Crushed. Silent before his accusers. Wounds that heal. Every detail found its fulfillment in one person — the shepherd, the leader, the model, the mold into which every faithful life is poured.
Ezekiel 9:4
The mark on the foreheads
Before judgment fell on Jerusalem, God commanded his messenger to mark those devoted to Him with the Taw — written in ancient script as a cross. Those who bore the mark were spared. The mark did not save them by merit. It identified whose they were. This is the heart of what the cross accomplishes.
Matthew 27 · John 19
The price paid
The Taw was not a symbol by the time it reached Golgotha — it was a structure. A crossbeam laid across the shoulders of the condemned. A vertical post. The shape of the last Hebrew letter, written in the posture of the one carrying it. The cross was not invented at Calvary. Calvary was the revelation of what the cross had always meant. It is finished.
Galatians 2:20
The life I now live
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” The Taw does not only mark what was done for us. It marks what we are called into. The cross is the shape of the surrendered life.
Marcus Brown.
What God can do with very little — the testimony behind the platform, from Xerish’s founder, Marcus Brown.
Marcus Brown · Founder · photo at launch
The board.
Xerish’s governing board — members to be added.
Board member · To be added
Board member · To be added
Board member · To be added