Small groups that don’t quietly fall apart.
A group directory people can actually browse, rosters that stay current, weekly guides leaders write once — and a nudge the week someone stops coming, instead of the month after they’ve gone.
Groups don’t fail loudly.
They fail one missed Tuesday at a time, and by the time anyone notices, the person has already stopped thinking of your church as theirs.
Nobody knows which groups have room
The list on the website is nine months old. Two groups are bursting, three have four people, and a new family can’t tell them apart.
Attendance lives in a leader’s head
Or a notebook, or a text thread. Which means it can’t be handed off, and it can’t be noticed.
Drift is invisible
David missed two weeks. Nobody chased it, because nobody was counting. The third week he stopped answering.
Small Groups, in detail.
A group directory people can actually browse
Groups appear on a map — offset by a privacy radius so a leader’s exact address is never published — filtered by tags, and flagged when they’re new or kid-friendly. Every group has a public page you can link from your website, no login required.
- Map discovery with a privacy radius, so “near me” works without exposing a home address
- Tags you define — Tuesdays, young adults, Spanish, west side
- Kids Welcome and New Group flags for the two questions everyone asks first
- A public /o/yourchurch/groups page to link from your existing website
Capacity and waitlists that handle themselves
Set a cap. When the group fills, the next person joins a waitlist and is promoted automatically, in order, the moment a spot opens. If a leader adds someone to a full group anyway — because that’s what leaders do — the cap simply rises to make room rather than blocking them.
- First-in, first-out promotion the moment a seat frees up
- Join requests a leader approves, or open joining — your call per group
- Adding to a full group raises the cap instead of throwing an error
Meetings, notes, and the weekly guide in one place
Leaders take attendance, log what the group actually talked about, and post the week’s guide from the same screen. The guide goes out in the SG Weekly email and shows up in the app, so “what are we doing Tuesday?” stops being a text you have to answer.
- Per-meeting notes and meeting types — normal week, social, service project, off
- Leader-written weekly guides, sent by email and shown in the app
- Group announcements that reach the group’s own chat channel
- Leader changes are logged, so a handoff has a paper trail
The nudge, the week it matters
Churchory watches attendance so your leaders don’t have to. When someone misses two weeks running, the leader gets a prompt with the person’s name and a way to reach them — while a text still feels like being noticed rather than being audited.
- Missing-attendance prompts surfaced to the right leader, not to a report nobody opens
- Prayer requests captured in the moment, on a phone, mid-meeting
- Church-wide view for staff: which groups are healthy, which are quietly emptying
No feature tiers, no add-ons, no upsell.
Small groups touch half the church, so they touch half the product.
Where this connects
Every part of Churchory shares one directory, one permission system, and one price.
