Oneicity was born from our desire and passion to serve small and medium sized ministries. While we each have significant experience serving large non-profits, we believed that we could have the greatest kingdom impact by bringing our expertise to smaller organizations.

As we searched for a way to provide cutting-edge strategies and advanced analytical techniques for reasonable fees, we hit on the concept of a virtual organization. No big offices. No extensive payroll. Just experts who love working together and collaborating on projects as clients need them.

We talked to some of the best and brightest in our industry about this wild dream of how we wanted to serve ministries. Their response was overwhelming. Time after time, we heard, “Go for it!” “What a great time to do this!” “Count me in!”

The word “oneicity” came from a conversation between us about how to describe the core principle of this new enterprise.

The conversation went something like this:

Hoots: “We have to have the same purposes and values as our clients.”

Thomas: “Yeah, running on the same track. Not just hired guns, but real partners.”

Hoots: “Either God’s at the center of what we’re going to do or we won’t do it.”

Thomas: “Right! We have to be in tune with what God wants and where our clients are headed.”

Hoots: “OK, so we’re unified with them. Committed to their goals. Is that unity?”

Thomas: “Sort of… it’s more than a business relationship. Different than friendship.”

Hoots: “What do you call that?”

Thomas: “Unity… Oneness…Oh, I know….we’d want to have ‘oneicity’!”

Hoots: “Oneicity?”

Thomas: “Yeah, you know, like simplicity only ‘one’-icity.”

Hoots: “You made that up.”

Thomas: “Of course I made it up, but it’s a perfectly good word. It doesn’t even google.”

It’s not only a perfectly good word, it’s a great name for our company, it describes what we are dedicated to: unity, oneness, singular purpose—oneicity.

We want God to be at the center—the foundation of everything we do. We want to have the same goals as our clients. We want to have the same purposes. We want to be united in a partnership that has lofty dreams. We want, as our verse says, “to be traveling on the same road, in the same direction.”