aVillageAbout
It takes a village. Somebody has to organize it.
The willingness is almost never the problem. Churches are full of people who would take a Thursday night, drive to a county office, or find a car seat by Saturday. What's missing is the thing that turns all of that into a specific person doing a specific thing for a specific family.
Why it exists
Foster ministries usually die of logistics
A church decides to support foster families. One person starts a group chat, a spreadsheet and a sign-up link. It works beautifully for four months. Then that person gets sick, or moves, or burns out — and the ministry goes with them, because everything that made it work lived in their head and their phone.
aVillage is the part that shouldn't depend on one person remembering. The allergies are on the meal train. The ride has a name against it. The closet knows what size it's short of. The family's licensing steps say which one they can start today. When the leader changes, the village doesn't.
What we decided early
Four commitments the product is built around
Families never pay
Only the church organization ever contributes. A foster parent, a kinship grandmother and a volunteer all use aVillage for nothing, on every plan, forever. Charging the person receiving care would defeat the point.
Small churches are free, automatically
Under 150 average attendance, the answer is $0 with no request and no trial clock. The churches doing this work in the places with the fewest resources are exactly the ones a price tag would stop.
The family's information is the family's
A foster child's name, birth date and photo are readable only by their own family's account — enforced in the database. It costs us features. We keep it anyway. Here's how it works.
Money never touches data
A billing problem pauses features in stages and never data. Under a full hold, exporting your community and deleting your account both still work. No church's information is ever leverage.
How it's paid for
Churches fund it. That's the whole model.
aVillage is funded by the churches that use it. Your contribution is based on your size; small churches pay nothing, and any church can request a reduced or sponsored account — cost should never be the reason foster families go unserved.
There is no advertising, no data sold, and no per-family fee hiding anywhere. A church's contribution is based on its size, on a continuous curve rather than a tier — and giving beyond that is what pays for the churches that can't. That extra is the only genuinely optional money in aVillage, and it's the part that keeps somebody else free.
Where we are
Opening up church by church
aVillage is in beta and onboarding communities deliberately — we'd rather a handful of churches have a ministry that works than a thousand have an account they never set up. If yours isn't in yet, get on the list and we'll come to you.
When we do, we'll usually stand up a private sandbox in your church's name first: realistic families, a meal train mid-flight, a closet with things in it. Click anything. Show your team. Nothing you do touches a real church, and a sandbox is never asked to pay.
Who we are
The plain facts
aVillage is built and operated by Lukshi, LLC. It runs on iPhone, Android and the web from one account. Lukshi, LLC is a company, not a tax-exempt charity, which means a gift to aVillage is not tax-deductible as a charitable donation — we'd rather say that in the first paragraph than the twelfth.
Gifts your members give to your church through aVillage go to your church's own payment account and never through ours.
Questions, security reviews, or a church that wants to talk before signing up: aVillage@lukshi.com. A person answers.