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Presence. Family. Mission.

Come home.
Be restored.
Build from calling.

The Prodigal is a place where people come home to the Father, discover who they are, and build what they were created to build.

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The core movement
1

Return

Come home to the Father.

2

Restore

Recover identity and calling.

3

Release

Create and serve from that place.

The story

Why “The Prodigal”

Luke 15 is not ultimately a story about recklessness. It is a story about the heart of the Father.

The younger son leaves, comes to himself, and returns. The Father runs toward him, embraces him, restores his identity, and brings him back into the household.

The older son stays close to the house but still misunderstands the Father’s heart. The Father goes out to both sons.

“The world may identify someone by where they wandered. The Father identifies them by who they are.”
The tension

The people shaping the future are often being formed somewhere else.

Faith and work. Prayer and creation. Worship and entrepreneurship. Sunday and Monday. The Prodigal exists in the gap between worlds that were never meant to be disconnected.

Faith × Work
Prayer × Creation
Worship × Entrepreneurship
Sunday × Monday

Form the people who are forming the future.

The core thesis

Formation should lead to creation.

01

Presence

Encounter God

02

Identity

Know whose you are

03

Calling

Discern purpose

04

Creation

Build from calling

05

Impact

Serve the world

The altar and the workshop belong in the same house.

The journey

Return → Restore → Release

RETURN

Come home to the Father.

Encounter God through prayer, worship, community, and the gospel.

RESTORE

Recover identity and calling.

Become a son or daughter before becoming a founder, leader, or minister.

RELEASE

Build, serve, lead, and create.

Take restored identity into companies, ministries, technology, art, and the city.

The model

One house. Three expressions.

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Prodigal Prayer

Presence

24/7 prayer and worship at the spiritual center of The Prodigal.

The light is always on at the Father’s house.
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Prodigal Church

Family

A local church centered on discipleship, belonging, spiritual formation, and life around the Father’s table.

Presence brings us home. Family teaches us how to live there.
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Prodigal Labs

Mission

A venture studio and founder ecosystem where identity, calling, excellence, and creation belong together.

Where calling becomes creation.

Presence forms people. Family grounds people. Mission sends people.

The destination

A house of presence, family, and creation.

A place people can pray, worship, gather, work, build, learn, eat, mentor, create, and belong — without moving between disconnected worlds.

The sanctuary and the startup lab live under the same roof.

Prayer24/7 worship
ChurchGathering + formation
LabsVenture + coworking
TableMeals + community
MediaStory + creativity
MentorshipLeaders + founders
Founder formation

What are you becoming while you build?

Identitybefore achievement
Callingbefore scale
Characteralongside capability
Stewardshipalongside ownership
Servicealongside success

The founder does not build to become somebody.

They build because they already know who they are.

The first city

Why Austin

Technology. Venture. Music. Creativity. Migration. Spiritual hunger. Austin sits at an unusual intersection of builders, culture, capital, and people asking deeper questions.

If culture is being built here, formation should be happening here too.

Technology
Venture
Music
Creativity
New People
Meaning
The flywheel

Presence → People → Calling → Creation → Resources → Presence

01

Presence

02

People

03

Calling

04

Creation

05

Resources

What if companies born in a house of prayer eventually helped sustain the house of prayer?

Why now

Capability is accelerating faster than formation.

As technology accelerates what humanity can build, the deeper question becomes:

Who are the builders becoming?

The first raise

Establish the first Prodigal.

Not simply a church building — a house where prayer never stops, people become family, founders are formed, and new companies, ministries, and ideas are released into the world.

Build the first house →
Space
Buildout
Prayer
Church
Labs
Team
Technology
Runway
THE PRODIGAL

There are people all over our city who have forgotten where home is.

Some are far from God. Some are sitting in church. Some are building companies. Some are leading organizations. Some appear to have everything and still do not know who they are.

Come home.
Be restored.
Build something beautiful.
Presence. Family. Mission.