The questions your church is already asking.
Members’ meetings, budget nights, a new building, a hard season. People submit their questions ahead of time, the room upvotes what matters most, and you answer with the list up on the projector — in front of everyone, on the record.
Every meeting has a question nobody asks.
Not because people don’t have one. Because asking it means standing up, holding a microphone, and saying it in front of three hundred people you’ll see again on Sunday.
The same three people talk
A microphone in an aisle rewards confidence, not curiosity. The person with the question everyone else is quietly wondering about stays in their seat.
Questions arrive on scraps
An index card, a text to the pastor at 11pm, someone catching an elder in the lobby. None of it lives in one place, and half of it never gets an answer.
Nobody knows what got answered
The meeting ends, the questions scatter, and the people who asked are left assuming they were ignored — which is worse than the answer would have been.
Open Floor, in detail.
They ask before anyone’s in the room
Open a session and share the link — in the bulletin, from the stage, in a text to the whole church. Questions come in for days beforehand, from people who’d never queue at a microphone, and you walk into the meeting already knowing what’s on your church’s mind.
- A public Q&A link anyone can use — no app, no account, no login
- Submissions open days before the meeting and stay open during it
- Questions land in one list instead of five inboxes
The room decides what matters
Everyone can upvote. The question fourteen families are wondering about rises to the top, and the one asked by the loudest person in the building sits where the church actually put it. You spend the meeting on what people came to hear rather than on whoever reached the aisle first.
- Upvoting, so priority comes from the congregation rather than the platform
- The order is visible — nobody has to trust that you picked fairly
- Moderation for the handful of things that shouldn’t go on a screen
Present mode, ready for the projector
When the meeting starts, put it on the screen. One question at a time, large enough to read from the back row, with the queue behind it. No screen-sharing a browser tab full of tabs, no reading questions off a phone, no wondering whether you skipped one.
- Projector-ready present mode — built for the screen, not a shared laptop window
- Work down the list live, marking each one as you go
- New submissions keep arriving mid-meeting and join the queue
Answered stays answered
Every question carries a state — queued, answered, or set aside — so the record survives the meeting. The people who asked can see they were heard, and next year’s budget night doesn’t start by relitigating what you already covered.
- Answered and queued states that persist after the room empties
- A session history your leaders can look back at
- Anything you didn’t reach stays on the list rather than evaporating
No feature tiers, no add-ons, no upsell.
Open Floor is one of twenty areas, and it shares a directory with all of them.
Where this connects
Every part of Churchory shares one directory, one permission system, and one price.
