THE CHRISTIAN CHAIN INC

During this fiscal year, we launched a unique prayer app for churches and individuals to deepen their prayer life and connection to others. This prayer app, called Prayer Nook (prayernook.com), was designed to meet the "connecting people to people" part of our mission statement. The objective is to offer a way for members to journal, request prayers, pray with their friends, and strengthen their prayer life - all in one easy to use web and mobile app. Members are able to pray for those in their groups, share personal prayers within their inner circle, and journal prayers in their own private notebook. During this fiscal year, Prayer Nook went from a concept to the drawing board, to development and initial launch, all within a short 3-month period. From its launch in the second fiscal quarter until the close of the fiscal year, we have averaged 334 monthly visitors to the site, with 165 new members joining. Also, during this time period, 107 journal entries have been created, 133 prayer requests have been submitted (with 158 updates to prayer request added, and 46 prayer requests being marked as answered), and members have recorded 596 times that they have prayed for a prayer request.

During this fiscal year, we took the program that encompassed the primary work of our organization for the past eight (8) years and rebranded and built upon the foundation to make this program more accessible across the United States. This program, called Samaritan Bags (samaritanbags.com), was designed to meet the "connecting the world to Jesus Christ" part of our mission statement. The objective is to offer a way for people to meet the needs of vulnerable individuals around the Phoenix Valley and throughout the United States. The Samaritan Bags program connects churches and community organizations to pack bags with non-perishable food and personal care items. These bags can be donated outright to organizations or rescue missions; or be carried around in volunteers' cars for chance encounters. Due to the challenges faced with the COVID-19 global pandemic, we were unable to hold our normal in-person packing events and then distribute the bags to those in need. So, we took this opportunity to update and expand the design our website to include an online packing and event guide, online shopping help, tutorials and aids, as well as a portal to help organizations and groups organize their packing event and take online donations of cash and items. Though we have missed our in-person packing events, we were able to use the time to prepare for the future and saw a quick return on our efforts. During this fiscal year we have averaged 221 monthly visitors with an estimated 46% engagement rate compared to the average 72 monthly visitors with an estimated 21.79% engagement rate seen from the initial launch of the website in 2013 until the start of this fiscal year.