The Upadaria Project is envisioned as a multi-faceted effort to build freedom not only to enable a strong witness and influence for Jesus to the nations but for advancing human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing for all people, all over the world. The project itself is focused on a web platform with a virtual-to-local approach to making empowering connections between fellow eCitizens, building physical hubs that act as administrative, training, and service/ministry support centers and places of refuge, and various organizational structures such as an international Christian society and NGO as well as branch societies and other organizations.
Through this project we envision empowering millions of Christians to both live in freedom and be an effective witness to the world around them. We envision a restoration of family and kinship within a freewill community of mutual trust and support as an alternative to top-down politically controlled hierarchies. We envision clustered housing arrangements that resemble the ancient extended multi-family household community than the atomized life of this culture. We envision persecuted Christians having many safe-havens spread all over the world where they can find sanctuary. We envision country-specific and international organizations with legal standing as 21st century alternative “sovereignties” (like an NGO) to advocate for and protect the rights and welfare of all Upadarians and Christians in general.
The vision of this global project would result in a new model for sharing the Gospel and for promoting freedom in general that is both more rooted in ancient and sacred truth and yet also innovative and thoroughly modern. The modalities of global communications and commerce and local and individual self-sustainability using the latest technology will allow this project to take the smallest root in many places and then grow organically from there.
All over the world, using 17 Protocols and the connections and support of our platform, people will be able to create Upo Hubs and other familial/community structures for mutual self-reliance that will be a total game changer for many who participate. This distributed, decentralized, and autonomous model based on a shared nationhood founded upon ideals and principles, will allow the Upadaria project to blossom among people in every country on this planet, potentially, and to develop and grow without top-down “management” or control.
While our work has begun and will grow as we go, our mid-term aims include gathering and mobilizing a core of backers and participants who, together, fund a $10 million per year progam that will sow the initial seeds for the web 3.0 platform, the first model Upo Hubs, and the first genesis organizational structures. We are building a core of experts and proven leaders who have accomplished great things in their fields to ensure a workable and successful plan going forward.
The activation of this project will give you both a virtual home to flourish within and find real support, collaboration, and networking, but it will also, as it grows, guarantee you a place of sanctuary and safety during any time of crisis or persecution. Through its legal structures, your own individual rights as a Christian will have real advocacy and support and through mutual assurance, you will gain help in times of lack and trial.
We are basically purpose-building the intentional infrastructure for our own sociocultural and socioeconomic autonomy that will both free us from the influence and control of the world but also enable us to become far more effective as an influence and witness for Jesus to the world. Our core breakthrough idea is a concept and execution of nationhood that has nothing to do with race or political states but that is essential for the kind of organic cohesiveness needed to both create a unified effort and respect and promote individual autonomy and fulfillment without a top-down controlling hierarchy.
While our various efforts, structures, and organizations may be open to a broad diversity of people, our core builders and leaders will come from the ranks of Christians who have adopted this spiritual nationality by embracing our core ideals, principles, and practices as well as our shared mandates, in using our 17 Protocols. Creating a form of nationhood based on ideas and spiritual truths as well as shared goals and purposes, is a massive departure from race-based nationalism or political nationalism.
Anyone in the world who loves Jesus and wishes to reach the nations in His Name can opt to become a peer of our spiritual nation by adopting the 17 Protocols of our spiritual nationhood into their own way of life, as God leads and provides. Whenever two or more people connect and collaborate and are guided by the 17 Protocols of Upadaria, they autonomously build “Upadaria”, as a Kingdom Nation within the nations, right where they live and without a top-down controlling hierarchy to dictate everything to them.
From among such people we hope to draw backers, people who subscribe to our platform and actively participate in our activities, to begin to build the genesis structures of our new and globally distributed spiritual nation and its freedom-building efforts around the world.
