Hosting · Youth Classes

Weeks of lodging, placed home by home.

A girls' or boys' class means young people rotating through host homes for weeks. Cordial keeps every period straight.

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Lodging by periods, not one long blur

A class runs for weeks, and the young people move to a different home each period so more families get to host and no one carries the whole load. Coordinating that by phone is the hardest lodging job there is.

Cordial models it directly: you define the periods, homes offer what they can per period, and the committee places each young person, period by period.

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Setting it up

  • Define your periods with arrive and depart dates. One period's depart morning is the next one's arrive, shown that way so the handoff day is never read twice.
  • Import the roster: paste or upload the class list. No public registration; the committee controls who is in.
  • Pick Girls' Class or Boys' Class once, and every form and message words itself accordingly.

Hosts sign themselves up

  • A public link where families offer beds for the specific periods they can take.
  • If you allow it, hosts pick their own guests from the unplaced list. A family cannot take the same young person twice; everyone rotates to a different home.
  • Hosts who call in instead? The committee adds them with a name and phone number.

The committee stays in control

  • A placement board showing every period, every home's remaining beds, and who is not placed yet.
  • Each young person gets a text with their host for each period; each host gets their guest list.
  • A printable assignments report for the bulletin board: every attendee's home, period by period.

Small class, small effort

A typical class is fifteen to twenty-five young people. Setup is an afternoon: create the meeting, enter the periods, paste the roster, share the host link. From there the work is placement decisions, not paperwork.

Meals during the class run on the same sign-up sheets congregations use for potlucks, so the food side needs no new system either.

Other meetings you can host on Cordial

Cordial sizes itself to the meeting — free for everyday congregation life, and ready to scale up when it is your turn to host something larger.

Congregation tools Free

Potlucks, meal trains, and revival itineraries the whole church uses from a share link — every week.

School meetings

Every school registers itself; lodging, meals, name tags, and payments follow from one roster.

Ministers & deacons

Individual registration at any size, with reports and name tags built in.

Annual meetings

Large yearly gatherings with individual sign-up, lodging, and reporting.

Business conferences

Paid tickets online through Stripe, settled straight to your account.

The hardest hosting job, made routine

Ask anyone who has coordinated a class: the lodging chart is the thing that eats the month before it starts, and it keeps changing after.

With every offer, placement, and change in one system, a swapped period is a two-minute edit and a fresh text to the two families involved, not an evening of calls. The committee sees the whole picture; the hosts and young people each see exactly what concerns them.

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