2.1 What you can and cannot do signed out

3.1 The clock

Three rolling digit pairs show the current hour, minute and second in your own local time. Underneath, one of two things appears:

• If someone has claimed the current hour: “Sarah is praying” or “4 people are praying”. This is information only — you cannot tap it.
• If nobody has: a button reading “This hour needs prayer · Cover it now”. Tapping it does not sign you up for that hour — it drops you straight into a prayer session so the hour gets covered right now. Use “Sign Up to Pray” if you want the slot every week.

3.2 Featured prayer events

Directly under the clock, staff can feature upcoming prayer events as wide image cards. Tapping one opens the event registration page in a new tab. If nothing is featured, the strip simply is not there — there is no placeholder.

3.3 The prayer wall

The wall is headed “Prayers — What we’re praying for right now” and lays out as a grid of cards, one to five across depending on your screen. Everything currently eligible is shown at once; there is no “load more” to click.

A card shows:

• The submitter’s photo or initials and name, with how long ago it was posted (“just now”, “5m”, “3h”, “2d”, then the date).
• Small icons in the top-right for campus, category, and a warning triangle if it was flagged time-sensitive. Hover or long-press an icon to see its label.
• The title, at most two lines.
• In the bottom-right, a sparkle and the number of times people have prayed for it — or a status pill such as “Awaiting review”, “Answered”, “Team only”, or “Edit & resubmit”.

Church-wide requests sort to the top, then your own, then everyone else’s; within each group, urgent first, then whichever sort you have chosen.

3.4 Filtering and searching

Tap the round Filters button (on a phone, the ⋮ menu, then “Filter & Sort”). A panel opens with:

A “Reset” button appears in the panel header whenever a filter is active, and a small badge on the Filters button shows how many filters you have on.

4.1 Updates

If the person has posted news, an “Updates” section lists each one with a coloured tag: grey “Update”, green “Praise”, or amber “Resolved”.

5.1 The form

Tap “Submit”. You will see “Request submitted — the pastoral team will review and post it to the wall.”

5.2 What happens next

Your request appears on the wall immediately, but only in your own view, carrying an “Awaiting review” pill. Nobody else sees it until an approver approves it. Once approved it becomes an ordinary card. If you later mark it answered, it stays on the public wall as a praise for three days, then files into your own history.

6.1 The “My Requests” section

Above the wall, a “My Requests” section appears when you have anything that is not on the wall — something that was not approved, or something that has been resolved. It is collapsed by default; tap the count pill to open it. Inside, a “Show Resolved” pill reveals your archived and older answered requests.

6.2 If your request was not approved

You get an email, and the request shows in “My Requests” with a flag. Open it and you will see the reviewer’s reason and, usually, a note explaining what they need.

Where resubmitting is offered, an “Edit & resubmit” button re-opens the form with everything you wrote already filled in. Make your changes and tap “Resubmit”.

6.3 Editing a request that is already on the wall

Open your request, tap the ⋮ menu, then “Edit prayer request”. Change the title, text, category, urgency, visibility, anonymity, or the date it comes off the wall, and tap “Save changes”.

6.4 Posting an update

Open your request, tap ⋮, then “Post an update”. Choose a type — “Update”, “Praise” or “Resolved” — write your message (up to 2,000 characters) and tap “Post update”. Everyone praying for the request sees it.

6.5 Marking a request answered or archived

Open the request, tap ⋮, and use the Status options: “Active”, “Answered” or “Archived”. Answered requests stay on the wall as a praise for three days. Archived ones come off immediately and move to your resolved history.

7.1 Reading the hour list

7.2 Changing or cancelling a signup

Three places do the same job:

• From the hour list: tap your green row, adjust the four block checkboxes, and tap “Save changes”. Uncheck all four and the button becomes “Remove this signup” — tap it twice to confirm.
• From “Upcoming Sessions” on the home page: tap the trash icon on a card, then “Delete” (or “Keep” to back out).
• From your profile: tap your avatar, find the signup under “Upcoming signups”, and use the same trash icon.

Deleting a repeating signup cancels the whole weekly series. A slot you have already prayed cannot be deleted.

7.3 The “Upcoming Sessions” section

Your commitments show as cards under “Upcoming Sessions”. Ten minutes before your slot begins, the card turns into a bright “Live now” card with a “Start” button — tapping it takes you straight into a prayer session. Cards refresh themselves, so you do not have to reload the page.

8.1 During a session

Tapping “I Prayed” really does record a prayer against that request — the public count moves.

8.2 Finishing — the summary and your journal

At the end you see how many people you prayed for and how long it took, plus a box headed “What did God put on your heart?”. Anything you type is saved as you type it, both on your device and against the session. Tap “Done” to finish, or “Pray again” to start another.

Everything you have prayed through is listed on the “Sessions” page under “Your prayer journal” — mode, duration, date, how many you prayed for, and your note.