For churches
Your groups meet for two hours. Here’s the rest of the week.
Thread gives the person in the pew what a commentary would, in five minutes. Emberside puts that lesson on the calendar and tells a leader who has quietly stopped coming. One plan covers both.
Have a look around. You can read a real lesson without signing up, and the plan is at the end if it fits.
Five minutes, start to finish, on Thread’s own site.
Why we built it this way
The hard part of starting a group is finding someone to lead it.
When people say no, it is rarely about the evening. Leading a study sounds like being the person who knows the most, and most people know they are not.
So every lesson carries notes: how to open, how long it runs, three questions with the reasoning behind each, what to watch for, and how to end. Preparing means reading the lesson. That is worth saying to someone who has said no before.
The other half is what happens after everyone goes home. A group can meet well on Tuesday and lose somebody by the end of the month. So the reading lands on the calendar, a prayer stays with whoever asked, and whoever goes quiet reaches a leader instead of nobody. No group text was built for that.
Thread
The study
The seminary shelf, without the seminary.
Every lesson opens in the world the passage was written in: who was in the room, what a word meant then, the Hebrew or Greek where English drops something. The commentary reading is done for you. What is left is five minutes of plain English.
Written, not filmed. Nothing to queue, no projector to book, no screening to host. Your people read it on a phone at whatever hour they have free.
- 182Lessons
- 16Courses
- 34Verse studies
Emberside
The care
The week between, and who is missing from it.
A leader sets the gathering and picks the Thread lessons to go with it, so the date, the place and the week’s reading are on everyone’s phone before you meet. Tapping the lesson opens it in Thread.
When somebody slowly stops turning up, one leader gets one name and the reason: said yes to the last two and did not make it. Long before it has been two months.
And a prayer request belongs to whoever made it. Only they can close it, and one way to close it is it went another way, which stops the asking and leaves the request standing.
Two minutes
See how it works.
A walk through both apps, coming soon. It will show you a lesson, a gathering, and what a leader sees.
What it cannot show is time passing, which is where most of this happens. A request made in September, still standing in March. Somebody called in week three rather than noticed in week nine. Neither fits in a screen recording, and both are why the apps sell together.
The plan
One plan, both apps, priced per seat.
A church buys it once, for everyone it gives a seat to, on one invoice with one renewal date. One code covers the whole congregation, so nobody has to be in a small group to have the apps.
Prices are quoted rather than printed. Tell us roughly how many seats you need and the reply carries the number.