1. Acceptance of Terms and Entity Identification
Welcome to The Farmhands’ Table, an educational, pastoral, and field-equipping resource owned and operated exclusively by World Class Cities, Inc. (doing business as World Class Cities Ministries or WCCM), a non-profit organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Maryland, United States of America, and recognized as a tax-exempt entity under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code.
World Class Cities, Inc. (USA) has no legal affiliation with, control over, or responsibility for any independent overseas entities, foreign groups, or organizations operating under identical or similar names without a direct, formal written covenant. By accessing, browsing, listening to, or interacting with this website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of this site.
2. Ministry Purpose, Theological Perspective, and Editorial Opinions
The Farmhands’ Table exists to encourage, equip, and provide perspective for frontline Christian workers, church planters, pastors, and cross-cultural laborers.
- Editorial Opinions and Diversity of Christian Thought: The views, commentaries, theological perspectives, and leadership models expressed across audio episodes, video broadcasts, transcripts, articles, and correspondence represent the personal opinions of the individual hosts and guests. Even within orthodox Christian faith, there exists a broad diversity of ecclesiological convictions, leadership philosophies, and interpretive nuances. Content on this site does not constitute universal dogma.
- Denominational and Ecclesial Autonomy: You are solely responsible for evaluating all content against the Holy Scriptures and the specific denominational policies, confessions of faith, bylaws, and elder leadership of your own local church or sending organization. World Class Cities, Inc. assumes no liability for any ecclesial discipline, denominational friction, relational conflict, or termination of ministry resulting from your adoption, misinterpretation, or application of perspectives shared on this podcast.
- Not Professional Counseling or Legal Advice: Content is educational and pastoral in nature and does not establish a formal clinical, psychological, medical, legal, accounting, or fiduciary relationship.
3. Sovereign Jurisdictions, Foreign Laws, and Assumption of Risk
The Farmhands’ Table is produced, hosted, and published from within the United States of America under United States constitutional protections.
- Compliance with Local Laws: We recognize that our global audience ministers in diverse political environments, including nations with strict legal restrictions regarding religious gatherings, evangelism, speech, or publication. You are solely responsible for knowing, understanding, and complying with the civil laws and statutory regulations of the nation, territory, or jurisdiction in which you reside or minister.
- No Encouragement of Unlawful Acts: Nothing published on this site or communicated via correspondence is intended to encourage the violation of local civil laws or security regulations in foreign jurisdictions.
- Voluntary Assumption of Risk: Frontline Christian ministry inherently involves spiritual, social, legal, and physical risks. Listeners and practitioners voluntarily assume all risks, hazards, and consequences associated with their personal ministry activities, field strategies, or application of discussions heard on the broadcast.
4. Multilingual Content and AI Translation Disclaimer
To serve a global audience, our episodes, transcripts, and web resources are translated into multiple languages spoken around the world.
- Automated Translations: You acknowledge and agree that translations provided on this website are generated using automated artificial intelligence (AI) tools and machine translation algorithms, not human linguists.
- As-Is Provision: While we strive to preserve pastoral spirit and theological clarity, automated translation carries inherent risks of grammatical, cultural, doctrinal, or contextual inaccuracies.
- Limitation of Liability: World Class Cities, Inc. provides multilingual materials strictly as-is for voluntary educational convenience. We disclaim all liability for any errors, doctrinal misunderstandings, loss of nuance, or damages arising from reliance on AI-translated materials. The English-language broadcast and transcript represent the authoritative source material.
5. Intellectual Property and Permitted Ministry Use
All original content on this website, including audio recordings, video episodes, written show notes, logos, artwork, and custom site architecture, is the property of World Class Cities, Inc. and protected by international copyright laws.
- Permitted Ministry Sharing: You are warmly encouraged to share, quote, listen to, and utilize our episodes and discussion frameworks within local churches, leadership cohorts, missionary training programs, and personal study, provided proper attribution is given to The Farmhands’ Table.
- Prohibited Commercial Use: You may not sell, monetize, republish behind a paid paywall, sublicense, or create derivative commercial merchandise from our content without prior written permission from World Class Cities, Inc.
6. Correspondence, Submissions, and Metrics Stewardship
When you submit a question, testimony, guest recommendation, or note through our contact interface:
- Attribution Consent: We strictly honor the on-air attribution options you select regarding first name, ministry role, and general location. Unselected details remain strictly confidential between you, Shaun B. Wilson, and the core podcast production team.
- Anonymized Kingdom Metrics: As outlined in our Privacy Policy, World Class Cities, Inc. reserves the right to compile, summarize, and report aggregated, anonymized metrics regarding kingdom fruit (such as churches planted or leaders trained) in organizational briefings, donor reports, and on-air broadcasts.
- Digital Security: If you operate in a nation or region with active surveillance or religious restrictions, you are responsible for maintaining your own operational security (such as utilizing secure networks and checking the option indicating whether email replies are safe).
7. Financial Contributions and 501(c)(3) Stewardship
- Mission and Fund Use: Financial contributions made via our giving pathways support the global in-person training mission of World Class Cities Ministries (WCCM), our digital broadcast equipping initiatives, and necessary organizational and administrative operations.
- Non-Profit Governance: All contributions are received and governed in accordance with the regulatory standards and legal obligations applicable to United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit corporations.
- Third-Party Processing: Giving transactions are processed through secure third-party payment gateways (such as PayPal) or direct check to World Class Cities, Inc., and are subject to their respective security frameworks and WCCM’s non-profit stewardship policies.
8. External Links and Media Players
This site includes embedded players (served via YouTube’s Privacy-Enhanced Mode) and links to external platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Substack, and PayPal. World Class Cities, Inc. does not control these external sites and is not responsible for their content, availability, privacy standards, or terms.
9. Limitation of Liability and Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, World Class Cities, Inc., its directors, officers, employees, volunteers, agents, and podcast hosts shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, including without limitation any loss of ministry role, ecclesiastical discipline, legal penalties under foreign jurisdictions, or personal injury, arising from your access to, use of, or inability to use this site, or your reliance upon any content or translations published herein. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless World Class Cities, Inc. from any claims or liabilities arising from your violation of these Terms.
10. Governing Law and Exclusive Jurisdiction
These Terms of Use shall be governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland, United States of America, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal action or proceeding arising under these Terms shall be instituted exclusively in the federal or state courts located in the State of Maryland, USA.
11. Modifications to Terms
We reserve the right to revise or update these Terms of Use at any time. Changes take effect immediately upon posting to this page with an updated effective date.
12. Contact Information
For questions concerning these Terms of Use, please contact:
World Class Cities, Inc.
Attention: The Farmhands’ Table Podcast Legal and Data Stewardship Team
Address: 5207 Wyndholme Cir, Unit 404, Baltimore, MD 21229
Email: podcast@wccm.net