Friday, August 21

1 · Boulder — Pastor Jarvis’s three points

• The wording conundrum — what do we call everyone who isn’t a student? Solved and rebuilt

  Nobody is sorted by age any more — they’re sorted by where they come from. “Neighbors” where it has to be short, “members of neighboring congregations” where it has to be exact. That answers all three of his constraints at once: undergrads are never told they aren’t adults, there is no young-versus-older split, and nothing is anchored on a word that shuts out a sixteen-year-old.
  
  The word “adults” is now gone from the kit entirely — four phrases, nine places, all fixed in the template rather than in Boulder, so every chapter after this one is born correct. High schoolers are named outright in the audience line under the QR code. Every swap, word for word →
• “Select Thursdays” on the piece that doesn’t list the dates Done

  He was right, and it was exactly one piece — the social square, the only thing in the kit that gave a day without a calendar under it. It now reads “Select Thursdays · 7:00 PM · From Sept 10.” The poster and both handouts print all ten dates, so they were already unambiguous and are untouched.
  
  Built as a template rule rather than a Boulder edit: a chapter that really does meet every week just leaves the new field out and still says plain “Thursdays.”
• The student handout isn’t missing — it’s page 2 Answered, and repackaged

  It already exists, and it already says what he expected it to say. The handouts PDF is two pages: page 1 is the congregations version, page 2 is the students version, and page 2 carries “Hold your ground. You don’t have to hold it alone” — the same line as the social portrait, exactly as he guessed. Nothing needs writing.
  
  What actually went wrong is delivery: one file, two audiences, and he printed the first page. Worse, both download buttons on our own chapter-kit page handed over the same file — so the way we shipped it practically guaranteed this.
  
  Fixed. Each audience now has its own PDF — Handout — Congregations and Handout — Students — with the combined two-page file kept at its original name so anything already forwarded still opens.
• The revised kit is ready — Carly just has to send it Carly · today if possible

  Everything above is rebuilt and live on the chapter-kit page; Boulder is holding a kit that is now out of date. First session is Thursday, September 10, and Mark speaks at the ULC conference on September 19 where Jarvis hopes to pick up more members — possibly whole new chapters. Sending today gives them two clear weeks to print and get it round the neighboring congregations before the first session rather than after it. Worth telling Pr. Jarvis plainly that all three of his points were taken.

2 · Where everything else stands

• Board packet material for Mark Critical path · board meets in about a week

  Accounting cleared the Academy subscription; nothing gets built until the LCRL board approves at the end of August. That is now next week, and this packet is the thing that feeds it. Two questions for Mark today: what date is the board meeting, and what form does he want this in — a couple of slides that drop into his own presentation, or a standalone one-pager to hand round the table?
• St. Stephen Liberty — they meet at the end of this month Now the tight one

  Last Friday this was “end of the month.” That is now inside two weeks, and we still have no dates, no contact and no photo. The kit itself takes about a day once the inputs land — but not from nothing. Worth one call from Mark today rather than another week of waiting on a chapter that keeps restarting because people keep joining.
• Doctrinal Review — can they approve a page instead of a PDF? Mark asked · the week is up

  Mark said he’d ask and expected about a week for an answer. That week has passed — any word? If the answer is no, nothing is lost and the PDF path stays; but knowing either way lets the production workflow be written down properly rather than left with a hole in step four. What we’d build if they say yes →
• Carly’s Mailchimp export Arrived — thank you, Carly

  Came through the same afternoon as last week’s call. That was the last thing holding up the Advocate Weekly restart — the master list gets built from it, and once subscribers are off Mailchimp the $20 a month can be cancelled. Now on Gary.
• Shelly — Cloudflare verification, and the last source permissions A week, no reply

  The reminder went out last Friday morning with what to search for and where to click. Nothing back since. Neither item is urgent on its own, but both have now been open long enough to be worth a nudge from Mark rather than another email from Gary. On permissions: most sources said yes, a couple simply haven’t replied, and nobody has balked.
• Where do the Mom & Pop Papers live — and how big is the LAA archive? Asked last week · still unanswered

  Neither is anywhere Gary can reach. We hold four LAA episodes, all four about the Network itself — enough to pair with Session 001 and nothing else. This blocks a step Mark himself put in the workflow, so it needs either an archive or a decision to drop the step. Why that matters →

3 · Shipped since last Friday

• Liberty Action Alert — Lorcán Price, “Convicted for Conscience” Live Wednesday

  Built and sent for review Wednesday morning; approved by Mark — “looks great. Post it!” — and by Dr. Seltz the same day, and posted Wednesday afternoon. Start to live inside eight hours.
• Pastor Jarvis’s feedback — found, read, worked through Closed out

  Last Friday this was “it arrived and Gary missed it.” It has now been read in full, all three points are answered above, and — the part that matters for the next chapter — two of the three fixes belong in the template rather than in Boulder, which is the whole reason the kit was templatized before the second chapter rather than after it.

• Board packet material Critical path

  The architecture, what gets built and what it costs — written for a board, not for engineers. Everything Stripe-shaped waits behind it.
• Boulder kit, revision 2 Built this morning

  Wording swapped in the template, “Select Thursdays” on the social square, handouts split per audience, and poster, handouts, social and /boulder all re-rendered — every layout clean. Everything is on /chapters to download. Most of it landed in the template, so the next chapter starts from the corrected version.
• Advocate Weekly — master list from Carly’s export Unblocked

  Import the segment export, build the master list, verify the counts against Mailchimp, then cancel the $20/month.
• Attribution line into the Advocate template Condition of every permission

  Every source that said yes said yes on condition of proper attribution — a “provided by [source]” credit with a link back where we have one. That belongs in the template so it is applied identically every issue rather than remembered every issue.
• Session Production Workflow one-pager Living document

  Mark’s six steps written down, plus a status board in the admin area so anyone can see which session sits at which step. Written now with the Doctrinal Review question still open, and updated when the answer lands.
• Session template — individual / group toggle Gary builds

  Goes into the template once, so every session from here carries it at no extra cost per session. The group view surfaces the discussion guide, prompts and questions over the same material.
• Session template — mobile first, not mobile tolerated Gary

  Someone studying in bed on a phone, and someone holding a phone in a circle of people running the discussion. That is the primary device.
• Rotating discussion leader Idea to prove

  Borrowed from F3. The page guides whoever is leading, so a different member can take it each month instead of one person always running it. Beta test it on Boulder once they are meeting.
• Zoom cloud handoff instructions Small

  One page for Mark: record to cloud, send the link, Gary pulls it down and clears it so Zoom storage doesn’t creep.
• Stripe subscription build Gated on the board

  Accounting cleared it. Build begins once the board approves and Gary is invited onto the LCRL Stripe account as a developer.
• Log this meeting to the Status build log End of day