Fold for class leaders
Church software for class leaders and cell leaders in Ghana
A class leader, a cell leader, a group leader: the title varies and the job is the same. You are responsible for a dozen or two people by name, you notice when one is missing, and you are the first to visit. It is the oldest pastoral office in Ghanaian church life and the one most software ignores.
The job as it is
Most systems are built for an administrator with a laptop. A class leader has a phone, a Sunday, and a list.
Your list is on paper
The class register is a book or a photocopy. Attendance goes in it on Sunday and reaches the church secretary weeks later, if it does.
Absence is noticed late
A member misses one Sunday, then three, then it has been two months and nobody visited because nobody added it up.
You can see too much or too little
Either the leader is handed the whole church's records, giving included, or nothing at all. Neither is what the role needs.
What changes with Fold
Your class on your phone
Your own members, their numbers and their birthdays, and nobody else's. Attendance marked from a pew in a minute.
See howWho has stopped coming, flagged
Fold compares each member against their own pattern and tells you who has drifted from it, while a visit can still bring them back.
See howSee your people, not the giving
The class leader role sees its own class and records attendance. It never opens the giving records, and that is enforced by the database.
See howBirthdays and follow ups
The birthdays in your class this fortnight, so you can bless them on Sunday, and a text in the church's name if the church chooses.
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Questions class leaders ask
- Can a class leader see the whole church's members?
- No. A class leader sees the members of their own class or group. The pastor, an administrator or a secretary sees the whole register.
- Does it work on an ordinary phone?
- Yes. Fold is a website that works in the phone's browser, installs to the home screen like an app, and is built to work on a weak connection.
- What counts as a member who has stopped coming?
- Fold compares each member against their own previous pattern, not the church average. Somebody who came almost every week and has not been seen for six weeks is flagged; somebody who has always come twice a year is not. You decide what to do; it only makes sure you know.
Words on this page, defined: class leader, bible class, home cell, attendance.
Fold for other people in the church
Built for class leaders, not adapted for them
Thirty days free with your own register, no card, and your records leave as easily as they arrive.