Sunday is the heartbeat, but a church runs all week: Bible study, youth group, choir practice, the marriage course, men's breakfast, VBS in June. AloraChurch gives every gathering a page, an RSVP list, and a place on one calendar your families can actually follow.
The job
Right now the schedule lives in a spreadsheet, the sign-ups live in someone's inbox, and the bulletin is out of date by Tuesday. The job is simple to name and hard to do: fill the hall, know who's coming, and don't let it all rest on one heroic volunteer.
…and VBS is coming in June, with 120 places and a registration list to manage.
Native events
VBS registration, the marriage course, the men's breakfast — each one becomes a public event page with a shareable link. Families open it, read the details, and RSVP — no account, no app to install. Drop the link in the bulletin, the newsletter, or the congregation's WhatsApp group chat.
Set the number of places — the hall holds what it holds. RSVPs count down in real time, and the event closes itself when it's full.
When the last place goes, new RSVPs join a waitlist. A family cancels? The first family in line is promoted automatically — no one keeps a list on paper.
Who's coming, who's waiting, who cancelled — one view for the volunteer coordinator, the kitchen team, and the pastor's Monday briefing.
Full? Join the waitlist — places open as plans change.
A public event page — share the link anywhere your congregation reads.
The church calendar in the dashboard — month, week, day, and list views.
One calendar
The marriage course's six Friday sessions, the youth group's Wednesdays, the choir's Thursdays — each program writes its own schedule onto the church calendar. Change the program, and the calendar follows.
Advent, Lent, Holy Week, Easter — Pascha in Orthodox congregations — are already on the calendar when you plan. Schedule the choir's extra rehearsals against Holy Week, not around it. The liturgical year, built in →
Every family adds the church's .ics/iCal feed to Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar — and new events simply appear on their phones. No more "when is it again?" texts.
Announce everywhere
Create the event once — then let it show up on the church website, the foyer screen, and in the inbox of exactly the people it's for.
Event cards with one-click RSVP, a mini-calendar of what's ahead, and countdown timers — embedded on your church's website with one line of code. Website widgets →
Upcoming-event announcements rotate on the foyer TV between services — VBS registration open, the marriage course starting Friday. Digital signage →
Segment-targeted broadcasts: parents of young families get the VBS email, the choir gets the rehearsal change — each giver emailed individually, not the whole list every time. Segments → · Automation →
Events that collect
The missions banquet, the ticketed Valentine's dinner, the building-fund gala — some evenings are both a gathering and a moment of generosity. Pair the event with a live giving event: RSVP handles the seats; the live giving event handles the giving.
Guests scan the QR on the table card or enter a short code from their seat, give in a few taps, and watch the thermometer climb on the screen as the room responds together.
And every gift lands in the same ledger as Sunday's offering — on the same giver records, counting toward the same initiative, on the same year-end statement. No separate event float to reconcile on Monday.
Live giving events — codes, totals, and status in the dashboard.
Lifecycle automation — the follow-up drafts itself; your staff approves.
After the event
Who came, who cancelled, who joined the waitlist — the event record remains available for the volunteer coordinator, kitchen team, and pastor's Monday briefing.
Export the attendee list or email the people connected to that event: first-time VBS families, newcomers' lunch guests, banquet attendees, or the choir rehearsal group.
If the dinner or gala includes a live giving moment, those gifts count toward the right initiative and appear on the same giver records and year-end statements as Sunday's offering.
Ready to publish
No setup project, no developer, no waiting on the volunteer who built the website.
Your funds, vocabulary, and liturgical calendar start with church-ready defaults.
Title, dates, places, waitlist on — the public event page and RSVP list are live in a couple of minutes.
The bulletin, the website widget, the congregation's WhatsApp group chat — RSVPs start arriving the same day.