Emberside: Small Groups

This is Emberside. It's where a small group lives between gatherings. Start with the obvious part. Everyone can see when you're meeting, where, and what you're reading — the passage is in the app, the whole Bible is, and it works with no signal, because church basements are church basements. Then prayer, which is most of what a group actually does for each other. Somebody asks. People stand with them — and it says ten with Nina, not ten likes. The person who asked, and only that person, says where it landed. It was answered. Or it went another way... and we stop asking for that, and stay with you. That second one matters. A request that ends hard doesn't get confetti and doesn't get archived. It sits there, open, because the group hasn't stopped. And it never nudges anyone again. There's a group chat. A calendar people actually reply to. A shelf for the things you keep sending each…