The welcome room, and how it works
The welcome room is the first live conversation a new brother walks into. It is where a man says hello, names what he is carrying and gets prayed for the same day. Here is what belongs in it, and the two things that cannot be posted anywhere in the lounge.
You are walking into a room of men who are fighting the same fight. Come in to be known and to carry someone. Be alert and always keep on praying. Ephesians 6:11-18.
What belongs in the welcome room
Say hello as yourself
Your handle, where you are in your walk, and what made you finally open the door. You do not owe the room your legal name or your city. You do owe it the truth about why you came.
Name the struggle plainly
You can say you carry same sex attraction. You can say you fell this week. You can say you are tired, angry at God, or scared this will never lift. Plain honesty is the whole point of the room.
Ask for prayer out loud
Ask the men in the room to pray, right there, for the thing in front of you. Then pray for the brother who asked before you did. That exchange is what the welcome room is for.
Ask your questions about the room
How the journals work, who can read what, what the prayer wall is, why the room blocks contact details. Ask. A staff brother or an older member will answer.
Encourage with scripture and with your own story
A verse that carried you. A week that turned. What obedience cost you and what it gave back. Testimony builds men. Slogans do not.
What does not belong here
Any contact detail
Emails, phone numbers, social handles, usernames, links, outside apps. Spelled out, disguised or spaced apart, it is caught the same way, and the line never posts.
Any move to take it off the lounge
If two brothers want to talk one to one, they do it inside the lounge, where the room still covers them. Trading details to talk somewhere else cannot be posted.
Anything sexual
Explicit detail, fantasy, descriptions of encounters, asking a brother what he is into. You may say what you struggle with. You may not narrate it and you may not invite another man into it.
Anything that reads like courting
Compliments about a man's looks, private attention aimed at one brother, asking who is single. This is not a dating space. Report it if you see it and staff will act.
Contempt, mockery or preaching at a man
We hold the line on holiness and we do not use it as a weapon. Nothing here is blocked by a filter, so it is on brothers to report a line that shames a man who just told the truth.
Carrying another brother's words out of the room
Screenshots, quoting a man's confession, telling his story anywhere else. What is said here stays here.
How it actually works
Two things cannot be posted
Contact details and sexual content. If either one is in what you wrote, the line does not send, you keep every word and you are told which part stopped it. Nothing is filed and nobody is told.
Nobody reads over your shoulder
The room is between brothers. Staff are not sitting in it reading, and your messages are not put in a queue for anyone to approve.
Staff step in when a brother reports something
A report brings a staff brother in. He can take a line down and the reason is recorded, along with who acted. Most of it ends in a conversation, not a removal.
If something in the room troubles you, report it
Since nobody is watching, the room depends on you. Report it rather than warning men quietly. That is how it stays safe for the man who walks in next week.
The rest of it, written down
Every house rule of the lounge is on the covenant page. How this room is kept safe is on the Safety page, and what we keep and never do with it is in the Privacy Policy.