The Web

The Web answers one question your people already know the answer to: who are you walking with, and who is walking with you? Each person can name the people they disciple and the people who disciple them. Once both of them say yes, the pair shows as a line between two dots.

It uses what Walking with already set up, so it only works once Walking with is on. Everything in it is opt-in. Someone who never turns the Web on never appears in it, and nobody is ranked, totalled or sorted by how much they do.

Asking the question

Open Walking with in the admin. Under Who walks with whom you will find:

• A link and a QR code. Put them on a slide, in the bulletin or in a group chat. The link opens My GiftWell. Someone not signed in gets a sign-in email first, then lands on "Who you walk with".
• Add pairs, for when you already know. Type one pair per line, the one discipling first, such as Jim Okafor -> Sam Lee. Both people still get asked, and nothing shows until both say yes.

In My GiftWell, a person types two letters of a name, picks the right person, and chooses "I disciple them" or "They disciple me". They tick that both of them are adults. The other person gets an email asking whether it is true.

• Both say yes: the pair is confirmed. It is marked Reported by them in the admin, so you can tell it apart from a walk you set up.
• The other person says "not really", or never answers: nothing shows and nobody is told. An unanswered pair goes away after 14 days.
• Someone your church may not email, or a minor: the person reporting sees the same message as everyone else, and nobody is emailed.

A reported pair is light: no covenant, no check-ins and no seasons. When you want more for them, Make it a full walk opens the usual Walking with ask, already filled in.

What people choose

In My GiftWell, under Walking together, each person chooses whether they show in the Web and how much:

Setting	What it shows
Off (where everyone starts)	Nothing. They are not a dot anywhere.
Who I walk with	Their dot, filled when they walk with someone, and lines to partners who also show.
Who I walk with, and my rhythm	All of that, plus twelve weeks of dots: a week they met someone they walk with, or shared a milestone.

They also choose where: their groups, the whole church, or both. A person sees a Web only while they show in it themselves. Turning it off takes them out at once.

Names show as first name and last initial ("Sam L."). Pastors see full names.

Groups and goals

Under The Web in the admin, make a group for any slice of the church: Young Adults, a youth leaders' team, a home group. A group is either:

• By birth year, such as born 1999 to 2007. The years decide who is in it but are never shown to anyone in it.
• A list of people, by full name, one per line. Names that match nobody, or more than one person, are listed back to you and left out.

A group can have a shared goal, such as "Everyone walking with someone by Easter". The goal shows as a row of dots, one per person showing, filled when they walk with someone. There is no number and no percentage. When every dot is filled, it says Met.

The admin page also filters by age band, pathway stage and Planning Center group. A filter that leaves fewer than three people shows "fewer than 3" and nothing else, so no picture points at one person.

Milestones

Milestones are small, intentional steps worth celebrating: praying out loud for the first time, finishing a reading plan, a week's fast. Your church keeps the list under The Web → Milestones, one per line, starting with first: or done:. People can only add milestones from your list. There is no free-text milestone, so nobody posts something deep or painful by accident.

When adding one, a person chooses who sees it:

• Just me, where every milestone starts.
• The people I walk with.
• My groups, or the whole church, if they show there.

They can add one short line, up to 200 characters, but only the people they walk with ever see it. Others can reply with one of a few fixed words, like "Praying for you" or "So glad". Replies are never counted. Narrowing who sees a milestone removes the replies from people who no longer can.

If someone drops a reading practice from their rule of life, GiftWell offers to mark "Finished a Bible reading plan" for them. It never adds it on its own.

What is kept, and what goes

• Pairs, Web settings, group lists and replies are kept as long as the person is. The short line on a milestone is encrypted.
• Download my results in My GiftWell includes everything the Web holds about them.
• Erase removes their pairs both ways, their replies, their group listings and their settings. Their milestones go with their other markers.
• Group goals and the milestone list belong to the church and stay when someone leaves.

Things to know

• The Web is for adults. Anyone your records mark as under 18 cannot be reported, and does not show.
• Dots go round a circle in alphabetical order, so where a dot sits says nothing about the person.
• A dot is filled even when that person's partner chose not to show. The line between them is simply not drawn.
• Rhythm is blank or marked. A blank week is never shown as missed.