For the organisers and the office
Harvest Thanksgiving or the youth Sunday, the details have to reach every generation. One invitation page carries the programme, gathers seating and meal counts, and updates when plans shift.
Church events are wide — a harvest thanksgiving, an anniversary Sunday, a youth supper, a summer fete — and they need to reach every age group at once. The noticeboard only catches whoever comes on the right Sunday, and the WhatsApp group only catches the younger members. One invitation page that opens on any phone carries the programme, the seating and meal questions, and the details that change.
There's no dedicated church-event design yet, so you start from the nearest setup and write the occasion yourself. What the page does is general and useful here: a shareable link the whole congregation can open, replies tracked against names, meal notes, and updates that reach everyone at once when plans shift.
The order of service, who's speaking, when the choir sings, and what time lunch is served — a plain running order so people come at the right part and stay for the moments that matter to them, instead of arriving during the wrong item.
Harvest lunches and anniversary teas need numbers before the kitchen starts. Guests reply against their own names, add family within your limits, and note meals, so the tables and the portions line up with the people actually expected.
The same link goes to the youth WhatsApp and to whoever prints the bulletin; a QR on the order paper and the notice reach the members who'd never open the group. When plans move — the time, the hall, the speaker — you change it once and everyone sees the current version.
Everything a member would otherwise phone the office to ask.
Warm and clear, so the newer members know exactly what they're being invited to.
You're warmly invited to this year's harvest thanksgiving on Sunday 6 October. The service begins at 10:30am, and lunch follows in the hall for everyone on the list.
10:30 — harvest service with the choir. 12:00 — bringing the produce and the blessing. 12:30 — lunch in the hall; please reply so we can set the tables.
If the time or the hall changes, this page will carry the latest. Please check here before calling the office to ask.
How it works
Create the event in the app or tell Jitabi about the gathering on WhatsApp. There's no church-event design, so pick the closest type and rewrite the headline and details as your event, its date, and its home.
Add the running order — welcome, talks, music, and lunch — then turn on replies and ask who's coming, how many family, and any meals to prepare. The kitchen and the tables work from what the list shows.
Send the link to the youth WhatsApp and the members' email list, and print its QR on the order paper and the notice for those who prefer paper to phones. Everyone reads the same details.
If the hall changes or a service time shifts, edit it on the page. Every member who opens it afterwards sees the current version, so you're not repeating the correction across three different channels.
Questions
Print the page's QR code on the order paper and the noticeboard, and hand out the short link to whoever can pass it on. Members with phones can open the same page you update, so the printed copy and the screen never fall out of step once you post a change.
There's no dedicated church-event design yet. You start from the nearest setup and write the occasion yourself. A shareable page, replies tracked against names, meal notes, and reminders carry over — which covers what a congregation-wide gathering needs.
Yes. Guests reply against their own names, add family within your limits, and note meals on the way back. Read together, those replies give you the count for tables and portions before the kitchen starts cooking, instead of on the day.
Change the detail once on the page. Anyone who opens the link afterwards sees the current time, hall, or speaker, and you can also send a short note through WhatsApp or email to the members already invited so nobody arrives at a locked hall.
It's the same simple step on any phone: open the link and confirm against your name, with no account to set up. Send it to the youth group, the general email, and the printed bulletin together, and every generation replies to one list.
Get Started
Carry the programme, gather the seating and meal numbers, and update details once so every generation sees the same plan. Start free, and add room as the list grows.
