Phase 1 · Foundation Release

Ministry coordination,
built for the way
churches work.

Wethr gives mid-size churches a single place to organize their people, plan every Sunday, and schedule volunteers — without the enterprise bloat or the spreadsheet chaos.

gracechurch.wethr.co
Directory
Teams
Services
Schedule
Sunday, March 16 · 9:00 AM
Morning Worship Service
Confirmed
🎵
Worship Set
4 songs · Worship Team
MC
JP
SR
📖
Scripture Reading
James 1:2–4 · Elena Marsh
🎤
Message
Pastor David Kim · "Steadfast"
+ Add block
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Where we come from
Bellwether — the sheep that leads the flock, wearing the bell. It's an old word for the one who goes first, who sets the direction, who the others follow without being told to. Wethr is that word, distilled: the wether at the center of it. A platform built for the people who lead quietly — and the communities that move with them.

Mid-size churches are stuck in the middle.

Too large for group texts and spreadsheets. Too lean for the bloated enterprise platforms designed for megachurches. There's been no right-sized option — until now.

📋

Spreadsheet chaos

Volunteer schedules live in Google Sheets maintained by one person. When that person leaves, everything breaks. No history, no conflict detection, no awareness of burnout.

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Coordination debt

Scheduling happens through a blizzard of texts and emails. Confirmations get lost. Leaders spend hours chasing RSVPs instead of doing the actual work of ministry.

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Enterprise misfit

Platforms like Planning Center were built for churches 10× your size. The learning curve is steep, the price is high, and most features go unused. A sledgehammer for a finishing nail.

"Our worship coordinator was tracking 40 volunteers across 3 teams in a spreadsheet. We lost someone mid-cycle and the whole thing fell apart."
Executive Pastor · 220-member church · Arkansas
"Planning Center is powerful, but I spent more time learning the software than actually planning services. Half of our team never even logged in."
Ministry Coordinator · 180-member church · Tennessee
"We had a volunteer serving three Sundays a month because nobody knew. They burned out and left the team entirely. We had no visibility into that at all."
Worship Director · 310-member church · Georgia

Built for churches like yours.

Wethr is purpose-built for the congregation in the middle — big enough to need structure, grounded enough to need simplicity.

100–
500
Members

The sweet spot

Large enough that informal coordination breaks down. Small enough that enterprise software is overkill. This is exactly where Wethr fits.

1–5
Staff managing it all

Lean administrative teams

A single administrator or executive pastor often runs the entire coordination operation. Wethr is built to reduce that burden dramatically, not add to it.

3–8
Ministry teams active

Multi-team coordination

Worship, Kids, Youth, Hospitality, AV — each with their own leaders, roles, and volunteers. Wethr manages them all from one unified place.

Pain points they feel acutely

  • Volunteer burnout from uneven scheduling distribution
  • Schedule confirmations lost in text threads
  • No single source of truth for who's serving when
  • Service planning scattered across notes, emails, and docs
  • New visitors not captured or followed up with
  • Ministry leaders operating in isolated silos

What they're searching for

  • Something they can actually get volunteers to use
  • A Sunday morning run-of-show that's always current
  • Schedule visibility across the whole leadership team
  • Confidence that nobody is being over-scheduled
  • A member directory that's more than a spreadsheet
  • A platform that respects the pace of church life

Everything a church needs to run Sunday.

Phase 1 delivers the complete core loop: a configured team structure, a planned service, and the right people in the right roles — with no missing pieces.

1
Foundation Release
Epic 01 · Family Directory

Your people, finally organized.

The relational foundation of everything. Every person in Wethr lives in the directory — with their household, contact info, member status, and team memberships always in sync.

  • Individual and family/household profiles linked together
  • Contact info, photo, birthdate, and anniversary tracking
  • Member status: Visitor, Member, Inactive — with visual indicators
  • Notes and custom tags for segmentation and follow-up
  • Search, filter by team or status, and export to CSV
  • Privacy controls — admin vs. member visibility scoping
MC
Maria Chen
Worship Team · Vocals, Keys
Member
JP
James Park
Worship Team · Guitar
Member
ST
Sofia Torres
No team assigned
Visitor
RK
Ryan Kim
Kids Ministry · Teacher
Inactive
Epic 02 · Ministry Teams

Structure for every corner of your ministry.

Organize your volunteer workforce into named teams with clear leadership and defined roles. Every team in Wethr is a structured unit — not just a group chat.

  • Create any team: Worship, Kids, Youth, Hospitality, AV, Parking, Prayer
  • Assign team leaders and members directly from the directory
  • Define specific roles within each team (Vocalist, Guitarist, Sound Tech…)
  • Skill and role tagging per member — know who can fill what
  • Clean roster and leader views per team
🎵 Worship Team
12 members · 6 roles
Vocalist (Lead)
Maria Chen, James Park, Aisha Brown
3
Guitarist
Sam Rivera, Tom Walsh
2
Keys / Piano
Elena Marsh
1
Drums
David Osei, Chris Lee
2
+ Add role
Epic 03 · Order of Service

Every Sunday has a shape. Build it here.

The Order of Service is Wethr's heartbeat. Every service is planned in a flexible block builder — and every person, role, and note connects directly to it.

  • Flexible block builder: Welcome, Worship Set, Scripture, Sermon, Offering, Communion, Custom
  • Reorder blocks freely, add internal notes per block
  • Assign people and roles to specific blocks from the directory
  • Service status: Draft → Confirmed → Completed
  • One-click printable run-of-show for service day
  • Recurring templates — never start from scratch again
  • Full historical archive of every past service
Sunday March 16 · 9:00 AM
9:00
Welcome & Announcements
Pastor David Kim · 8 min
9:08
Worship Set
Maria Chen + 4 others · 24 min
9:32
Scripture Reading
Elena Marsh · James 1:2–4 · 4 min
9:36
Message — "Steadfast"
Pastor David Kim · 35 min
10:11
Offering & Prayer
Tony Rivera · 8 min
10:19
Closing Worship
Worship Team · 6 min
Epic 04 · Scheduling

Manual scheduling done right. Burnout prevention built in.

Phase 1 gives leaders clear visibility into who's available, who's eligible, and who's at risk of burning out — before a single assignment is made.

  • Per-person preferences: available days, blackout dates, frequency cap
  • Role-based availability across multiple teams simultaneously
  • Manual role assignment from eligible, available volunteers only
  • Conflict detection: double-booked, unavailable, blackout date
  • Schedule view by team, role, or date range
  • Leader-only scheduling — volunteers don't self-assign
Worship Team · March 16
Maria Chen
Available
Sun, Wed1× / mo
James Park
Assigned
Sun only2× / mo
Sam Rivera
Blackout
Mar 16 off
⚠ Tony Rivera is at frequency cap for March. Consider reassigning to April.
Epic 05 · Roles & Permissions

The right access for every person on your team.

Wethr's layered permission model means staff see everything, ministry leaders manage their own world, and volunteers see only what's relevant to them — no extra configuration needed.

  • Super Admin — Full access to all features and settings
  • Staff / Admin — Full access minus system-level settings
  • Ministry Leader — Manages their own team, schedule, and role assignments
  • Volunteer — Views own schedule, responds to assignments
  • Member — Directory self-service and basic profile access
  • People can hold multiple roles simultaneously
Access Matrix
Feature
Admin
Leader
Vol.
Directory (full)
Ministry Teams
Own
Order of Service
View
Scheduling
Own
View
Settings

Built around how churches actually work.

Wethr isn't a generic project management tool with a church skin. Every decision reflects the pace, values, and culture of ministry.

Service-first design

Every Sunday has a shape. Wethr is built around that shape — the Order of Service is the central heartbeat, and everything else orbits it.

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People over data

The system should reduce burden on volunteers, not create new ones. Complexity lives with administrators, not with the people who show up to serve.

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Burnout awareness

Scheduling intelligence that protects people, not just fills slots. Frequency caps and conflict detection are first-class features, not afterthoughts.

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Lean admin

A small staff team should be able to run the whole platform. Every workflow is designed for one person, not a dedicated IT department.

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Mobile-first, always

The full feature set runs in any modern browser on any device — no app store required. Installable as a PWA for a native-feeling experience.

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Church-paced communication

Not a firehose. Timely, relevant, role-aware messaging — so volunteers hear what matters to them, and nothing they don't need.

Where we're going from here.

Phase 1 is the foundation. Each phase makes Wethr smarter, more connected, and more indispensable to the churches that rely on it.

1
Now · Foundation
Plan a Sunday.
Directory, teams, order of service, manual scheduling, and permissions.
Family Directory
Ministry Teams
Order of Service
Manual Scheduling
Roles & Permissions
2
Next · Intelligence
Let it run itself.
Auto-scheduling, RSVP, email/SMS, push notifications, CSV import.
Auto-scheduling
RSVP + reminders
Email & SMS
Push notifications
CSV import
3
Community
Extend beyond Sunday.
Small groups, public discovery, visitor forms, files & notes.
Small Groups
Public discovery page
Visitor intake form
Files & Notes
4
Insight
See engagement clearly.
Reporting dashboards, engagement metrics, fully self-serve onboarding.
Volunteer engagement metrics
Unfilled role trends
Group engagement metrics
Self-serve setup wizard
5
Growth
Scale with confidence.
Giving, attendance check-in, member journey, multi-campus.
Giving & Stewardship
Attendance Check-in
Member Journey
Multi-campus

Phase 2: Intelligence is next.

Once Phase 1 is in churches' hands, Wethr gets smart. The scheduling engine takes over the routine work — and volunteers are notified, reminded, and RSVPed without a single text from a leader.

Coming in Phase 2
Auto-Scheduling
One click fills your whole team — respecting preferences, frequency caps, and availability automatically.
RSVP Flow
Volunteers tap to accept or decline. Reminders fire at 7, 3, and 1 day out. Declines auto-trigger replacements.
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Push + Email + SMS
Every assignment and reminder delivered exactly where each volunteer prefers to receive it.
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CSV Import
Self-serve import from Planning Center, Breeze, or any CSV — with field mapping and duplicate detection.

Ready to see it in action?

We're onboarding pilot churches now with white-glove setup. Your data migration is handled by the Wethr team — no spreadsheet exports or IT help required.