The Reyes family
NewThree Sundays in a row in March. Filled out a card. Then nothing, and no one noticed the fourth Sunday didn’t happen.
Three visits. No follow-up logged.
For pastors of growing churches
Dave has sat in the second row for two years. Nobody has had him over.
Not because nobody cares. Because nobody knew he was unconnected.
Woven finds the people like Dave in the systems you already run, and asks the one member of your church best placed to reach each of them.
What Mark gets this week
To a connector
Hi Mark,
Dave W. has been at the 9:00 service most weeks for about two years. You’ve both got second-graders in the same Sunday class.
Would you invite him to men’s breakfast on Saturday?
Yes, I’ll reach out
Not this time
Woven never messages Dave. It only ever asks Mark.
You know your church. No one can see every thread in it.
You know these families. Their history, their rhythms, the ones you’ve walked through hard seasons with. But past a few hundred people, no pastor, no staff, and no elder board can hold every thread at once: who walked in for the first time, who’s been here for years and still knows no one, who’s carrying too much, who’s already halfway out the door. Those threads all exist. They’re sitting in the systems you already pay for, unread.
An example congregation
400people, every one of them a thread
372 woven in 28 need tending
The 28, by kind of care
Dave
UnconnectedSecond row, 9:00 service, most weeks for two years. No group. No serving team. Nobody has ever had him over.
Two years of check-ins. Zero rosters.
Priya
Pulling backThree years on the hospitality team, never once missed a rotation. Asked four times since the summer, and turned down every one. Nobody asked what changed.
Four asks. Four declines.
Marcus
Carrying too muchSound booth every Sunday, plus two other teams, fourteen months without a break. He’s the first name you think of, which is exactly the problem.
Three teams. Fourteen months. No break.
Denise
FadingSix years on the welcome team. Missed four weeks, then eight. By the time anyone said her name out loud, she’d already gone.
Four weeks missed. Then eight.
The Brennans
Life momentTheir first baby came in February. They have missed six Sundays since, which is exactly what a first baby does. Nobody from the church has met her.
First baby. Six Sundays missed.
Tanya
Ready to leadFour years in the same Wednesday group, first to arrive and last to leave, quietly steadying everyone around her. She has never once been asked to lead anything.
Four years. Never asked.
Not one of them was hiding. All seven were already in the data you have.
“Ten years ago, this was me. I attended faithfully for years. No small groups, no fellowship, just in and out on Sunday mornings. Unconnected. Then I got invited to a men’s BBQ, not by a pastor or staff, but by a guy in the congregation just like me. That one random invitation started me on a journey of discipleship and belonging that changed my life forever.”
Nathan · Co-founder
The right person found him by accident. Woven exists to make it happen on purpose, for everyone in the room.
The founding paper We wrote the theology before we wrote the software: the definition, and the principles that separate shepherding from surveillance. Read Relational Intelligence for the Local ChurchHow it works
Everything Woven knows arrives as one human ask.
Woven reads the systems you already run, works out who should act, and asks that one person to take one step, then follows what happened. Every other tool ends by handing your staff a list.
What Woven sees
Dave W.
UnconnectedWhy now
- 9:00 service, 96 of the last 104 weeks
- Two years in. No group, no serving team
- Never once appeared on a follow-up list
Who could reach him
Mark EllisonSecond-graders in the same Sunday class · both at 9:00
- Not started
- Reached out
- Resting
How it became Mark’s ask
- SeeDave is placed in the life of the church: present for two years, and connected to nothing. Every conclusion comes with its evidence.
- MatchEvery connector is weighed against him. A real reason to connect outranks convenience, and their second-graders share a Sunday class.
- NudgeYour staff choose Mark from the top few, and Woven asks him one small, concrete thing. Never a list.
- WeaveWoven follows what happened. Mark said yes, and Dave’s thread now reads Reached out.
Woven never messages Dave. It only ever asks Mark.
What giving is saying
Six more signals, and the earliest warning you already have.
A canceled recurring gift is rarely about money. It is a job lost, a marriage under strain, a season changing. No giving platform surfaces it as pastoral information, and most churches find out a quarter too late.
Who sees it
Only the leaders your church names, one by one.
Never a connector, never a member, and it never shapes who anyone is asked to reach. Every look at a giving signal is logged.
- Gone quietWas regular, now silent. The hardest one to notice by hand, and the most worth noticing.
- FadingStill giving, materially less than they were. A trend rather than a single missed week.
- CanceledThey canceled a recurring gift outright. A decision, not a drift.
- ReducedThey lowered a recurring gift rather than stopping it. Usually pressure, not distance.
- New giverA first ever gift. Someone just decided this is their church now.
- IncreasedThey raised a recurring gift. A quiet vote of confidence in what you are doing.
The Hendersons
CanceledTheir recurring gift stopped in April. It was never about the church. It was a layoff. The one person who should have called never learned why.
Recurring gift canceled in April.
Nothing new to collect. Nothing new to run.
Read-only access to the church management system you already use: check-ins, groups, serving, registrations, giving. No new forms, no surveys, no data entry, and nothing for your congregation to download.
Nothing is ever asked of the person you’re reaching. No app, no form, no idea they were ever on a list. The whole thing arrives as a friend.
See it for yourself
One week at an example church, start to finish.
Who needed someone, who was asked, why that person, and what they were shown. The church and its people are made up. The signals and the rules behind them are the ones in the Signal Book.
Belonging isn’t a program. It’s one person noticing another, now across your whole congregation.
Get woven in.
We’re partnering with a few churches at a time, the ones that care deeply about every person in the room, not just the ones up front. If that’s your church, we’d love to show you Woven.
- Read-only access to the systems you already run: Planning Center, Rock, Breeze and more. Nothing new for your congregation to do.
- Woven never contacts the person it noticed. It only ever asks a member of your church.
- Giving stays with the leaders you name, and every look at it is logged.
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