A Word from Our Founder

Dear friends,

By so many measures, 2026 has been the best year in the history of Psalm68five Ministries. As you'll read elsewhere in this newsletter, more than 1,000 kids growing up with little or no father in their lives spent a week this summer at a Bible-believing Christian camp. We now partner with 35 such camps across the country, and we get to gather with them at the trainings we host and at those hosted by ministry partners like Angel Tree Camping.

We don't do any of this alone. Many other ministries that love the fatherless serve right beside us as speakers, mentors, teachers, and volunteers at those camps. Ecclesiastes says two are better than one. With the Holy Spirit at work among partners who encourage one another, one plus one always adds up to more than two.

There is so much to be thankful for. And yet one prayer has grown louder in our hearts this year: that local churches would see that God has called each of them to come alongside the fatherless, not only when a struggling family happens to walk through the door, but on purpose, ahead of the need. Listen to how God wove that into the life of His people:

"At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do." Deuteronomy 14:28–29, ESV

Many Bible teachers today see the local church as the modern counterpart to the Levite, the rightful recipient of God's people's tithes. Notice, though, who else God seats at that same table: the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. He names them one by one, and the provision was stored up before the need ever arrived. Planned, not reactive. If the church inherits the Levite's place at the table, doesn't it inherit the Levite's tablemates as well?

Here is why that matters so much. Fatherless kids, and the abandoned or widowed moms raising them, are one of the few groups in America with no lobby, no spokesperson, and no celebrity behind their cause. Who is championing them in their distress? Roughly one in four American children now lives without a father in the home, and even a quick search of the statistics shows outcomes so poor they are hard to believe, for children who never had a say in the circumstances they were born into. At Psalm68five, we are praying for more opportunities to speak up about this quiet epidemic, and for churches that will speak up with us.

James 1:27 says it better than I can:

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." James 1:27, NIV

So here is my invitation. Ask your church leaders one simple question: How does our church look after the fatherless, intentionally and on purpose? If the answer is "we already do," praise God, and please tell us so we can celebrate with you. If the answer is "we'd like to do more," we would love to come alongside you. Helping churches live out these Scriptures is exactly why Psalm68five exists. You can reach us anytime at Psalm68five.org.

Thank you for standing with us, and with the God who calls Himself "a father to the fatherless" (Psalm 68:5).

With gratitude, Bryan C. Johnson Founder, Psalm68five Ministries