# Partnership Tiers — Narrow Highway > Looking specifically for sponsor inquiries? See **[Sponsors — for aligned businesses](/sponsors.html)** for the "Presented by" sponsor model (block sponsors, show sponsors, curriculum-track sponsors, season sponsors). This page covers all other partnership tiers including content partners, churches, and performing acts. --- For pastors, church leaders, ministries, performing acts, and Christian-family content creators who want their work to reach a curated Christian-family audience without doing the distribution work themselves. We work with five kinds of partners: | Category | Examples | |---|---| | **Churches & ministries** | Local congregations, Bible-teaching ministries, mission organizations | | **Sports** | Savannah Bananas · Micro Championship Wrestling (Pigeon Forge) · WFTDA & RDCL leagues · indie rodeo · minor-league baseball · roller derby | | **Music** | Christian musicians · classical performers · gospel groups · choirs | | **Theater** | Community theaters · church drama troupes · puppet & marionette troupes · regional Shakespeare companies | | **Comedy** | Clean stand-up · Christian comedy festivals · improv troupes · sketch & ventriloquist acts | The same four tiers apply across all five categories. Same alignment review, same posture, same model. --- ## Standing rule **We don't pre-reserve slots.** The Narrow Highway schedule is filled wall-to-wall with the best content we have right now. When your work arrives, it rotates INTO an existing slot in the right daypart — replacing weaker programming, not waiting for an empty space. The lineup continuously upgrades but never goes thin. If you're a fit, your content goes on the air. If we don't have a slot warm enough for what you make, we say so honestly. --- ## What Narrow Highway is A family of FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channels under a curated-internet brand, aimed at Christian families. Currently live or in build: - **Sci-Fi Theatre** — animated golden-age sci-fi adaptations - **Hundred Acre Theatre** — kids/family storytime (Pooh, Beatrix Potter, fairy tales) - **Hymns 24/7** — public-domain hymns with verse cards - **Sermons & Devotions** — Reformed/Puritan readings (Spurgeon, Edwards) - **Church Streams** — curated directory of aligned-church livestreams (this is where you come in) Distribution targets: YouTube Live, Plex Live TV, Roku, Pluto TV, Samsung TV+, LG Channels, Vizio WatchFree+, Tubi — via Wurl Network at the 100-hour-inventory threshold. --- ## Four partnership tiers ### Tier 1 — Directory listing (free, no agreement) We embed your public livestream and link your sermon archive on [`/church-streams.html`](https://narrowhighway.com/church-streams.html). - Zero cost to either party. - We use the public YouTube/Vimeo iframe embed — that's the intended use, no rights issue. - We surface your service times so viewers can plan around your livestream. - We recommend (but don't require) you put a mutual link to narrowhighway.com somewhere visible. **Requirements:** alignment with Christ-centered Scripture-faithful preaching (review process below). Matt Harris (founder) approves every listing. ### Tier 2 — Featured slot (free, mutual link required) Everything from Tier 1, plus: - Weekly featured-church highlight on the directory page. - Cross-promotion inside the Sermons & Devotions channel (your sermons are surfaced alongside Spurgeon/Edwards). - Inclusion in Narrow Highway "discover a church" suggestions. **Requirements:** mutual link on your website to narrowhighway.com. Same alignment review. ### Tier 3 — Content partnership (negotiated) We license your sermon archive for redistribution on our FAST channels (Roku / Plex / Wurl / Pluto). - You retain all rights and copyright. - You grant a non-exclusive distribution license for the platforms we ship to. - Revenue-share or flat-fee — terms negotiated per partnership. - We handle: encoding, scheduling, EPG, captioning if needed, ingest to aggregators, audience analytics. - You handle: producing the sermons (which you already do). **Good fit for:** churches with 100+ archived sermons that want exposure to a curated Christian audience beyond their geographic reach. ### Tier 4 — Studio collaboration (negotiated) We produce new content **with** your church, using the Narrow Highway engine + Matt as co-creator. Possibilities: - Animated Bible-story shows pitched to kids - Family devotional series - Q&A / theology shows where your pastor answers viewer questions - Documentary shorts about your missionary work or Christian-history specials **Economics:** revenue-share or sponsor-as-studio underwriting. Your church can underwrite a Narrow Highway show as ministry support, or co-produce with us for shared revenue, or commission specific content as a paid engagement. Always negotiated. --- ## Alignment review Every partnership starts with a brief review by Matt Harris. He's looking for: - **Christ-centered exposition** — the gospel preached as the gospel, not implied or assumed - **Scripture as final authority** — the text drives the sermon, not anecdote or therapy - **Sound confessional theology** — Reformed, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, or solidly evangelical - **Family-safe presentation** — content suitable for the families of mixed ages who will be watching - **No prosperity gospel, Word-of-Faith, or open theological compromise** Smaller churches are welcomed. We bias toward independent and confessional congregations doing solid expository work who don't have a national platform. If your church is a perfect doctrinal match for Narrow Highway but you're not sure about presentation quality, get in touch anyway — we can help with the production side. --- ## How to get listed Email **partnerships@narrowhighway.com** with: **For churches:** church name + city + denomination/confession · pastor name + brief bio · link to your YouTube/Vimeo channel · 1–2 sample sermons (full-length) for the alignment review · service times in local TZ. **For performing acts (sports / music / theater / comedy):** act name + home venue/city · brief bio of the lead artist or owner · link to your YouTube/Vimeo or recording archive · 1–2 sample performances (full pieces, not just clips) · upcoming show schedule if you tour. **For all:** which tier you're interested in (1 through 4), and what category you fit (church · sports · music · theater · comedy). We'll review and respond within ~2 weeks. There's no commitment to apply. --- ## Why we do it this way The cable-era model assumed centralized programming gatekept by networks. The modern internet inverted this — but in inverting it, it lost the curatorial function. Christian families wanting safe content have nowhere to start that doesn't bury them in feed algorithms. Narrow Highway exists to put the curatorial function back. Not as a gate to keep things out — as a guide to surface what's good. You preach faithfully. We make sure the families who would benefit from your work can find it.