Phase 1 · Foundation Release

Ministry coordination,
built for the way
churches work.

Wethr gives mid-size churches one place to organize people, plan every Sunday, and schedule volunteers. No enterprise bloat. No 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. An old word for the one who goes first, who sets the direction. Wethr comes from that word. A platform built for the people who lead quietly, and the communities that follow.

Mid-size churches are stuck in the middle.

Too large for group texts and spreadsheets. Too lean for enterprise platforms built for megachurches. Until now, there hasn't been a good option in the middle.

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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 flood of texts and emails. Confirmations get lost. Leaders spend hours chasing RSVPs instead of doing the work they signed up for.

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Enterprise misfit

Platforms like Planning Center were built for churches 10x your size. The learning curve is steep, the price is high, and most features go unused.

"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 designed 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. That's 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 make that load lighter, not heavier.

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 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 working in silos without shared visibility

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 covers the full loop: a team structure you can configure, a service you can plan, and the right people in the right roles.

1
Foundation Release
Epic 01 · Family Directory

Your people, finally organized.

The foundation of everything else. Every person in Wethr lives in the directory, with their household, contact info, member status, and team memberships 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 so admins and members see different things
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 volunteers 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 so you 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 where it all comes together. Plan each service with a flexible block builder where every person, role, and note stays connected.

  • 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 so you never start from scratch
  • 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, all 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.

Staff see everything. Ministry leaders manage their own teams. Volunteers see only what's relevant to them. No extra configuration needed.

  • Super Admin has full access to all features and settings
  • Staff / Admin gets full access minus system-level settings
  • Ministry Leader manages their own team, schedule, and role assignments
  • Volunteer views own schedule, responds to assignments
  • Member gets 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 project management tool with a church skin. It's built around how ministry actually works, week to week.

Service-first design

Every Sunday has a shape. Wethr is built around that shape. The Order of Service is the center, and everything else connects to 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 that protects people, not just fills slots. Frequency caps and conflict detection are built in from the start, not tacked on later.

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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 messaging so volunteers hear what matters to them and nothing they don't.

Where we're going from here.

Phase 1 is the foundation. Each phase builds on the last, adding the capabilities churches ask for most.

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 smarter. The scheduling engine handles the routine work, and volunteers get notified, reminded, and confirmed 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
Assignments and reminders delivered wherever each volunteer prefers to get them.
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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 hands-on setup. The Wethr team handles your data migration. No spreadsheet exports or IT help required.