Where people want to grow

What it compares

Two kinds of wanting, from the assessment:

• Growth areas: the choices people pick for "What would you love to grow in right now?" on the last screen, your church's own list or GiftWell's (Settings).
• Spirit gifts people are hungry for and still new to (never, or once or twice).

Against everything you already offer on that topic:

• Classes, events and conferences on your Resources that haven't ended, matched by their growth topics or their title.
• Your calendar: Planning Center Calendar, Check-Ins events and open Registrations sign-ups, and your website's event feed (Signals reads the same calendar).
• Planning Center groups, matched by name and description.
• Things to read or watch: books, podcasts, articles and videos on your Resources.

A growth area matches on its own words and a few close ones ("Marriage" also finds couples and spouse; "A hard season or grief" also finds loss and lament), by the start of a word. Words that say who something is for, like kids or family, don't count, so a kids' training night isn't read as a parenting class. A Spirit gift matches resources tagged with that gift, and events or groups that name it.

Gap, only reading, stretched, offered

Each area gets one state, by plain rules:

• Gap: people want it and nothing is offered at all.
• Only reading: there are books or videos, but nothing to join.
• Stretched: there is something to join, but more than 12 people for each class, event or group.
• Offered: there is something to join.

Gaps come first, then the most wanted. Gaps and All switch between the areas that need something and every area anyone picked.

Acting on it

• See who opens the follow-up list filtered to the people who picked that area. Names appear only there.
• The offerings button shows what was matched, with links, so you can invite people to what already exists.
• Add a class opens a new resource as a course or class with the area as its growth topic. Once it is saved with a date and a place, the area stops reading as a gap and the people who picked it see it on their page.

When it can't see everything

When Planning Center isn't connected, or a calendar or groups could not be read, the card says what it didn't check. A gap there may be on a calendar GiftWell couldn't read, so check before you start something new.

Who sees what

• Pastors, admins and owners see it on the Overview. Leaders and viewers don't.
• It is counts only. A pick is counted only from people who shared with the team, and a Spirit gift only from people who also agreed to keep it, the same as on Insights.
• Groups are read by name, description and schedule. Who is in a group is never read.
• Nothing here contacts anyone or writes to Planning Center.
• AI agents and Ask AI can read the same comparison with get-growth-gaps (pastors and up).