The Living Bread

PURPOSE: Give the real emergency number and crisis hotlines (suicide or crisis line, text line, domestic violence, child help) for one country, from the verified dataset The Living Bread ships for 53 countries, with its source and the date it was checked. WHEN TO USE: FIRST, before any other tool, whenever a person speaks of harming themselves or someone else, or is in danger ("I want to die", "my

PURPOSE: Read the Bible word for word from a stored text, never from memory: a passage by reference, a verse in its context, every verse containing given words, one verse side by side in several translations, the Hebrew or Greek words behind a verse, the passages readers link to it, a check of whether quoted words are real Scripture, or the list of stored translations. The default text is the King

PURPOSE: Find the verses that speak to something, read verbatim from the stored text: the hand-picked set for a need or feeling, the house's page on what the Bible says about a topic, what Jesus Himself said about a theme, or the Daily Bread verse every member receives on a date. WHEN TO USE: the person names a feeling, a situation or a topic, or asks for today's verse, without a reference. WHEN N

PURPOSE: Read what The Living Bread wrote about the Christian faith, quoted not rewritten: the gospel in four steps, a doctrine, a parable or miracle of Jesus, a hymn and its story, a biblical name's meaning, a sourced saint, denomination, sacred site, biblical figure or Bible place, the saints of a date, two traditions side by side, a respectful page for someone from another faith or none, a page

PURPOSE: Find real churches near a place, nearest first, merged live from churches on The Living Bread and an open worldwide directory of about 120,000 churches; or read one directory church's open data record by its id. WHEN TO USE: "a Baptist church in Dallas", "a parish near Manchester", or after another answer returned an lb:church id. WHEN NOT: services or events at a time: find_gatherings. G

PURPOSE: Find upcoming Christian gatherings posted on The Living Bread (services, prayer nights, Bible studies, worship nights, meals, recovery groups), soonest first. WHEN TO USE: "something on tonight in Atlanta", "church events this week near Austin", "an online service I can join". WHEN NOT: church buildings: find_churches. Ongoing groups: find_communities. A person to pray with now, or Tables

PURPOSE: Connect a person with real people who pray, honestly: how many believers keep the prayer watch right now and the page where a human answers, which hours of the watch are kept or uncovered, the door where believers pray for them by name, Tables open now, prayers left at places near them, the room where believers pray aloud over the family, and the door to pray for someone by name. WHEN TO

PURPOSE: Find open needs on The Living Bread Serve network, posted by verified partner ministries and Christian nonprofits: what is needed, urgency, approximate place, the partner, estimated cost, and whether it can be met in person, remotely or by funding. WHEN TO USE: "how can I help near Kigali", "a need I can fund", "volunteer from home". WHEN NOT: someone who needs prayer or a person to talk

PURPOSE: Find ongoing Christian community to belong to: discoverable groups on The Living Bread (prayer groups, study groups, city and interest communities) with member counts, how to join and the next posted gathering; or the house's University Network page for a country, US state or city. WHEN TO USE: "is there a prayer group", "a Bible study community in Atlanta", "Christian community at univer

PURPOSE: See the family of believers on The Living Bread as it is, in counts and in their own shared words: members by city, today's activity and what people are carrying, testimonies members chose to share, and worship songs for the person's hour. WHEN TO USE: "are there believers in Nairobi", "what is the family doing today", "has anyone found faith after addiction", "something to worship to ton

PURPOSE: Help someone take a first or next step: what The Living Bread is and how to begin for free, six common journeys run end to end with at most five next steps each, and the multi-day Bible reading plans with one day read in full. WHEN TO USE: "what is The Living Bread", "I am new to Christianity, where do I start", "find me a community near Leeds", "someone to pray with tonight", "where can

PURPOSE: Search everything The Living Bread holds with one free-text query: a flat list of results with ids for search then fetch (mode results, the default, the ChatGPT connector contract), one grounded answer with sourced entities and up to 3 verses (mode answer), or one lb: URN resolved to its public object and JSON Schema (mode protocol). WHEN TO USE: a question no other tool fits, deep resear

PURPOSE: Read one item in full by an id that search (or another tool) returned: a verse (KJV text), a need's verse set, a church, a gathering (with whether it has passed), a community, or an lb: denomination, saint, sacred site, biblical figure, Bible place or directory church. WHEN TO USE: right after search, with an id exactly as returned (the ChatGPT connector contract). WHEN NOT: other lb: URN