Building the Christian economy, shoulder to shoulder.
The Alongside Coalition is a vetted network of Christian craftsmen, business owners, and guild members — organizing around excellence, confession, and the common good.
Our Mission
To inspire and equip the pursuit of truth, beauty, and goodness in every sector of Christendom — to stand shoulder to shoulder, building the parallel economy of Christendom alongside one another.
Our Vision
A platform that facilitates Christian coalition, fosters Christendom's economy, and provides guild-style accountability to work with excellence. We envision a network of craftsmen in every trade — rooted in the local parish, accountable to one another, and committed to building things worth inheriting.
Pillars
Christian Coalition
Shoulder to shoulder for the Kingdom — we hold our confessions while preferring Christ's people across them, in the contracts we sign and the dollars we spend.
Leaving an Inheritance
A man's work does not end with his own hand. Skill, trade, and a good name are passed down whole — from father to son, master to apprentice, generation to generation.
Localism First
The market for internet fame is oversupplied; the market for a trustworthy plumber in your town is not. We serve the parish, the neighborhood, and the town.
Household Economy
Business is an outgrowth of family life, not a separate world with its own rules. We extend the household into work — caring for employees as souls under our charge.
Male Rule & Headship
God has ordained men to rule in the home, the church, and society. Business extends the household — male-led, with women laboring fruitfully from and for the home.
Honoring the Sabbath
The Lord's Day is not a productivity opportunity. We close the shop in trust — God can do more with our six days of labor than we could wring from seven.
The Team
Rob Hewitt
@rjhewitt3Founder
Rob is a reformed Christian, husband, father of three, businessman, and devout churchman. With over 15 years of experience, he runs Livingstones Studio, where he creates high quality websites, brands, and apps for businesses and ministries across the nation. He is passionate about helping Christian men recover their God-given duty to work with excellence and to build a multi-generational inheritance of faith, wealth, and culture.
Mikie Smit
@MikieSmitAdvisor
Mikie is a Christian, husband, architect, and father of four. He is a founder of SteadCraft Architects and Builders and occasionally goes full nerd on the Anything But Architecture podcast. He enjoys hand quarrying, hand cutting, and hand stacking stone, as well as hand hewing timber and hand drafting. Mikie argues that there is as much to learn by working with our hands in the materials God baked into creation, and believes that as Christians, we have a duty to recover craftsmanship, quality, and beauty so that we may build together across Christian traditions.
Connor Neville, RLA
@ekklesiadesignAdvisor
Connor is a licensed landscape architect and master planner who brings more than a decade of experience shaping places across estate gardens, homesteads, farms, communities, and historic sites with skill, beauty, and a collaborative spirit. He is a deacon, husband, and father of four who is passionate about designing with excellence, pursuing God’s glory, and helping build places and communities that serve the future and honor the inheritance we leave behind.
Nathan Burns
@nathanburnsAdvisor
Reformed Christian, husband, and builder devoted to craft, confession, and leaving an inheritance worth having.
Work worth inheriting.
Join the Coalition. List your business. Join a guild. Build something that lasts.