Build Status

Jul 92026

Correspondence tab — every response email in one place

Internal Admin

New gated correspondence.html, linked from the admin panel: each response email renders as a white “letter” card on the navy theme, newest first, with a jump index and a one-click Copy email button per letter.
Generated from plan/*email*.html — those files stay the source of truth. Never hand-edit correspondence.html; it is rebuilt from scratch each run.
Rebuild with python3 print-build/build-correspondence.py. That wrapper runs the global correspondence skill, re-skins its output to Champions brand (navy/gold, Bebas + Poppins), and re-applies the cn_auth / markrules password gate — all three must be re-applied on every rebuild.
First letter in the archive: the Jul 9 reply to Mark about the 2-page conference brochure.

main · source: “create a correspondence tab like other projects”

Jul 92026

2-page conference brochure (front & back, one sheet)

Print Brochure

Mark needs a one-sheet, double-sided handout for a conference in a week. Built brochure-2page.html + brochure-2page.css → champions-brochure-2page-print-ready.pdf (2pp, 8.75×11.25in with bleed + crop marks, 1.37 MB).
Content merged from his two Word flyers: front — mission, Two-Kingdom doctrine, Who Are the Champions (Common People / Advocates / Connectors); back — the Academy (10 sessions, guides, Community Action Plan), the Toolchest, four outcomes, and the Champions Discovery Weekend.
Terminology held to brand: “cultural servants,” not “laity”; the Academy is the curriculum inside the Network, resolving the two docs’ competing naming.
The NotebookLM infographic he attached was not used — placeholder contact details (email@example.com, a bad phone number, lcrl.org) and off-brand color/type.
Registered as variant v2page in print-build/build-pdf.js; rebuild with BUILD_ONLY=v2page node build-pdf.js.

main · working tree · source: Mark’s “New Champions Brochure?” email, Jul 9

Jun 262026

Advocate Weekly email delivery plan (Resend) + budget scope fix

Internal Planning

Researched the send path: Email Octopus’s API can’t create or send a broadcast (contacts + pre-built automations only), so it can’t send from the site. Chose Resend — its Broadcasts API can, using the same Netlify-function/key-in-env pattern as the budget tool.
Wrote advocate-email-plan.html (gated, in the admin panel): setup steps, contact-list setup & upkeep, and a cost breakdown with a live calculator.
Key cost finding: Resend Broadcasts are billed by contacts, not sends → today’s ~70 and up to 1,000 contacts are $0, $40/mo to 5,000, and send frequency is free. Open & click tracking are built in.
Budget tracker: now counts only Mar 1 2026 onward — no pre-March / 2025 hours anywhere (meter, monthly breakdown, per-project, recent entries).

main · 1f57d8d · source: June 12 check-in (Shelly’s click-through question)

Jun 262026

Advocate Weekly — on-site demo + click-through approval flow

Feature Internal Content

Built advocate-weekly-demo.html (+ .css / .js, split per house rule) — the deliverable Gary promised Mark on the June 12 call: a forwardable demo showing how the digest could live on champions-network.com, with a working approval workflow Mark/legal can click through.
Interactive console: paste a source → pick Curate-only (verbatim quote + link, ✓ no doctrinal review) or AI-enhance (our Two-Kingdoms framing, ⚑ needs Mark’s review) → Generate → reviewer view → one-click Approve & Publish → “live” state. Pure front-end sim; nothing is published.
The “stop on the site” page: fuller story, big Read at the source button, and a Related on our properties rail (podcast / lesson / chapters) — already-approved content, so no new review, and it keeps the reader with us. Plus the thin teaser email that drives the click back to us.
Closes with the open questions for the table: copyright of hosting an excerpt (Mark + Legal), pull MailChimp read-rates before trimming the email (Carly), and which stories warrant enhance vs. curate (Mark + Shelly).
Password-gated (cn_auth / markrules) and added to the admin slide-in panel.

main · pending · source: June 12 weekly check-in + “Agenda Item” email

Jun 122026

Admin entry — password gate + slide-in panel

Internal Feature

Reworked the discreet "A" badge on index.html: clicking it now opens a password modal (same cn_auth / markrules gate) instead of exposing the links — public visitors no longer see the internal URLs.
On success, a full-height panel slides in from the right with the internal links, each with a branded gold icon and a short descriptor (Status · March for Life · Newsletter Sample · Brochure · Brand Guide). Roomier than the old popover, so it scales as links are added.
Includes a "Lock & sign out" control, scrim/Esc to close, and reduced-motion fallbacks. Unlocking here carries into the gated pages (shared session key).
Added the per-page gate to newsletter-concept.html so it can't be opened by direct URL (the March for Life guide stays public-ready). Packaged the whole pattern as a reusable admin-panel Claude skill for other sites.

main · pending

Jun 122026

2027 March for Life — planning guide (print + web)

Feature Print Content

Built from Mark & Carly's source doc into an 8-page print guide on the brochure pipeline — march-for-life-2027-print.html + .css → champions-march-for-life-2027-planning-guide.pdf (8.75×11.25, crop marks). Added as the mfl variant in print-build/build-pdf.js (now supports BUILD_ONLY=<key>).
Pages: Cover · Invitation + 7-things-to-plan · hour-by-hour Schedule · Lodging (Westin group rate) & March-day logistics · Travel & Meals · Costs table + Rose Dinner/Young Professionals · DC attractions, Attire & Conduct · Back-cover CTA.
Built a matching responsive web guide — march-for-life-2027.html + .css — with a "Download the print PDF" button and an email "I'm coming" CTA.
Three editorial photos generated (march-to-Capitol cover, Supreme Court, National Mall at dawn — no readable signs / identifiable faces), hosted on Cloudinary.
Open: Mark/Carly review, confirm 2027 specifics (rates, route, events — currently flagged as based on 2026), then add a link from index.html.

main · pending · source: 2027 National March for Life Planning Guide.md

Jun 122026

Champions Advocate Weekly — AI concept mockup

Feature Content

Built newsletter-concept.html — a brand-styled re-imagining of the weekly digest, using the real Vol. 2 No. 21 content (Illinois secret-transition lawsuit + WV B.P.J. SCOTUS case, with their verbatim "Let Us Pray…" petitions).
Frames the proposed AI workflow as a 4-step strip — Cultivate → Curate → Pray → Publish — with the human (Mark) reviewing every word; sets up the Friday 11 a.m. discussion.
Two representative editorial photos (empty school hallway + flag; empty track w/ shot put) generated with no real people/minors, hosted on Cloudinary (f_auto,q_auto), captioned to swap for licensed photos in production.
Added print-build/cloudinary-upload.js — a signed-upload helper (reads gitignored .env) for future image pushes.

main · pending

Jun 102026

Request — AI-ify the "Champions Advocate Weekly" newsletter

Content Request

Mark forwarded The Champions Advocate Weekly Vol. 2 No. 21 — a weekly MailChimp digest for Champions Network subscribers curating 2–3 religious-liberty news stories, each with a "Let Us Pray…" advocacy block (this issue: an Illinois secret-transition lawsuit and the WV B.P.J. Supreme Court sports case).
His ask: "Would your AI Tool Chest create this faster, better, etc.?" — a workflow to discuss Friday at 11 a.m.
New volunteer Robert "Shelly" Null (retired P.A., fellow Illinoian) is joining to help with story cultivation; Mark CC'd him to introduce Gary as webmaster.

Source: FW The Champions Advocate Weekly Vol. 2 No. 21 (.eml)

Jun 52026

Weekly check-in — production model rethink

Check-In

Big direction shift: move lessons to a "lecture-first" model — Mark records a 30–50 min lecture per lesson and AI peels it into the structured page (chapters, cards, quiz, glossary), rather than hand-assembling ~25 resource pieces (~10 hrs each). Goal is a "Reader's Digest," bite-sized experience. Mark plans to start re-recording Year 1, Lesson 1 in September.
Add scheduled drip emails: sign up → auto-enrolled into a cadence of short, scannable lessons across the multi-year curriculum. Plus AI-generated group discussion cards (optionally printed).
Budget & board: the Academy work has outgrown the original podcast-posting retainer. Gary to prepare cost-to-build numbers for Mark's June 18 board meeting (also Seltz's retirement transition — contracting back 10–20 hrs/wk).
Continuity: Mark asked "what if Gary's hit by a bus?" → Gary to write AI process docs so an intern can run the workflow.
Other items: Mark wants his own @champions-network.com email (Gary to set up, Mark approves); Mark to pick better Vimeo thumbnails; upload the Mom & Pop papers to the site; explore an auto-transcription agent for Seltz's Liberty Action Alerts; Mark to email the March for Life planning doc.

Source: Champions Weekly Checkin_5june2026

Jun 52026

Carly email forwarding live · on-site address updated

Internal Content

Carly@champions-network.com forwarding to championsnetworkoffice@gmail.com is set up and Carly confirmed receipt.
Updated Carly's "Get in touch" address in her leadership modal on index.html from the generic info@LCRLfreedom.org to Carly@champions-network.com.
Mark's matching @champions-network.com forwarding is still open — Gary to set up once Mark confirms he wants it (for a consistent corporate look).

main · pending

Jun 52026

Session 003 — teaching videos + Mom & Pop links wired

Content Feature

Mark supplied 9 Session 003 Vimeo links; embedded each as a responsive 16:9 player (new .s3-video style in session-003.css) in its matching section.
Introduction (overview) · "Honor Everyone" video devotion (devotional accordion) · Pillar: Devoted to Prayer (pillars section) · Three Core Principles (principles section) · Mom & Pop #2 / #3 / #4 highlights (each paper tab) · Chapter 4 summary (Free to Believe Ch. 4 tab) · Reviewing the Study Recommendations (Personal Study section).
Added "Read Online" buttons to all three Mom & Pop Paper tabs (#2 / #3 / #4), linking to Mark's Google Drive PDFs. Resolves both the video and the paper-link placeholders.

main · pending

May 292026

Weekly check-in — walkthrough & direction set

Check-In

Walked Mark & Carly through the new Session 003 guide, the regenerated brochure artwork, and the 4-page edition (still to be added to brochure.html; Modern cover has a layout gap to fix).
Confirmed Carly's bio is live on index.html (Mark/Carly had been seeing a cached version).
Greenlit the Subscriber / Paid Academy. Decided to charge up front via Stripe, with coupon codes for free/beta/discounted access, monthly or annual recurring, gift subscriptions for churches, and an admin backend to grant access by email (decoupled from payment). See the build-plan deep dive in Open Items above.
Action items captured in Check-In To-Dos above: Mark to share Google-Drive PDFs (Mom & Pop Papers + video URLs) and check St. Louis on payment protocols; Gary to wire those links into Session 003, fix & publish the 4-pager, set up Carly's email forwarding, and start the Academy shell + Stripe docs.

Source: Champions-Weekly-Checkin_29may2026

May 292026

Session 003 study guide built & published

Feature Content

Built session-003.html + session-003.css + session-003.js from Mark's 4 source docs (Group Study, Home Study, and Free to Believe Ch. 4 & 5 review guides), reusing the Session 002 s2-* design system.
Theme: Two-Kingdom Citizens — Pillar Two (Prayer), the devotional "Honor Everyone" (1 Peter 2:15–17), and the Three Core Principles (Dynamic Differentiation · Reformation Restraint · Vocational Respect).
Sections: hero, overview, devotional, pillars (Prayer active) with a home-study prayer reflection, Three Core Principles cards + deep-dive modals, Mom & Pop Papers #2/#3/#4 (tabbed), Free to Believe Ch. 4–5 (tabbed, with case modals: Smith, Obergefell, Amos, Hosanna-Tabor), current events/engagement + action checklist, and a 10-question quiz.
Hero uses the brightened prayer image as a static background (no Session 3 video yet).
Linked from the Sessions section + footer on index.html. Public page (noindex).

main · pending

May 292026

Brochure walkthrough fixes · new artwork · 4-page edition

Content Feature

Second-wave fixes from the May 15 check-in walkthrough. Page 6 "Render Unto Caesar" diagram: "Champion Public Servants" → "Champion Cultural Servants" (both editions — the Page 3 instance was already done May 15).
Page 4 pillar bullet copy enlarged for legibility (Classical 8.5pt → 10pt; Modern 9.5pt → 10.5pt).
Added a micro LCRL logo beside "An Initiative of LCRL" on both covers, and brought the new Champions Network logo onto the back panel (Page 8) of both editions so Champions reads as the focus with LCRL as the parent initiative.
Regenerated 4 brochure images (Nano Banana Pro, 2K, painterly/photographic style preserved): raised the U.S. flag to full staff on the Classical theology diptych; replaced the folded/mourning flag on the Modern theology page with a proudly displayed flag; brightened the dark Christ-and-scales cover; and replaced the Capitol dome in the "Becoming a Champion" image with a radiant cross so the three figures walk toward Christ, not government (per Carly's note). Refreshed the Modern Bible-study image.
Built a new 4-page condensed edition (brochure-4page.html + brochure-4page.css) in the modern visual language — Cover · Problem+Theology · Solution+Get Started · Contact — and added it to the Puppeteer pipeline as champions-brochure-4page-print-ready.pdf (~2 MB).
Rebuilt all three PDFs via node print-build/build-pdf.js and refreshed page thumbnails under assets/brochure/thumbs/v1|v2|v4/.
Pushed the pending bio + brochure-copy commits live so the Carly Smith leadership bio is now public on index.html.

main · pending

May 152026

Brochure copy revisions · both editions rebuilt

Content Feature

Applied Mark Frith's editorial revisions to both brochures (Classical + Modern): rebuffed → culturally challenged, nice → kind, Right of Conscience → Marriage as Institution, Public Servants → Cultural Servants, "powerful solution" → "faithful solution", expanded Left/Right-Hand Kingdom copy (added "etc.", "His Spirit", "His death and resurrection"), and reworked the Network pillar wording ("Groups within churches" / "Citizens and Church Groups").
Classical cover (Page 1): tagline expanded to "Stand up for religious freedom before it's too late — your constitutional freedoms depend on it." Bumped "An Initiative of LCRL" footer text from 10pt → 13pt with tighter tracking for readability.
Modern cover (Page 1): added "An Initiative of LCRL" caption next to the lockup (Bebas Neue, 12pt, gold-light, gold hairline separator) so both editions carry the LCRL attribution.
Rebuilt both PDFs via node print-build/build-pdf.js: champions-brochure-print-ready.pdf (~9.6 MB) and champions-brochure-modern-print-ready.pdf (~5.7 MB). All 16 page thumbnails refreshed under assets/brochure/thumbs/v1|v2/.
Re-enabled the Carly Smith leadership modal on index.html and populated her full bio from the May 15 interview transcript (20 years mortgage processing, 5 years at Redeemer Lutheran Olathe, dual role at Champions Network, "no freak out" ethos from Pastor Kale).

main · pending

May 82026

Discreet admin entry + password-gated review docs

Internal Feature

Removed Brochure from the top nav (desktop + mobile) — internal review document, not a public destination.
Added a discreet "A" badge (bottom-right, ~32px circle, low opacity until hover) on index.html. Click reveals a small popover with three links: Brochure · Brand Guide · Status. No labels or footer copy that calls it out.
Password-gated brochure.html, brand-standards.html, and status.html with the same dark / gold-grid gate the site used pre-launch (sessionStorage cn_auth · password markrules). Clicking a link from the A-popover lands on the gate.
Created this Status page (status.html) as the engineering changelog.
Triggered a Netlify rebuild via empty commit so Forms Detection rescans champions-consultation and brochure-order.

main · current

May 12026

Site goes live · 8-page print brochure (two editions)

Launch Feature

Removed pre-launch password gate from index.html, laa-podcast.html, and session-002.html. Site is now public at champions-network.com.
Shipped 8-page print brochure in two editions: v1 painterly (brochure-print.html, ~9.5 MB PDF) and v2 modern editorial (brochure-modern-print.html, ~5.7 MB PDF) matching the website's design system.
Built the Puppeteer dual-PDF pipeline (print-build/build-pdf.js) — produces both print-ready PDFs in one run.
Added public-facing brochure explainer page (brochure.html) with tabbed page-tour. (Now password-gated as of May 8.)

6050172 · Add 8-page print brochure (two editions) and take site live

Apr 32026

Mark Frith bio · full vocational history

Content

Updated Rev. Mark Frith's leadership bio on index.html with his full vocational history.

2ec58df · Update Rev. Mark Frith bio

Apr 32026

Leadership images · third team card · Knight tier photo

Content Feature

Refreshed leadership headshots on the landing page.
Added a third team card to the Leadership section.
Replaced the Knight First Class tier photo on the Journey carousel.

afe1c57 · Update leadership images, add third team card, replace Knight tier photo

Apr 32026

Session 002 hero video

Feature

Replaced the static Session 002 hero image with a looping video.

a4ed8aa · Replace session 002 hero image with looping video

Apr 32026

Sessions section + nav link

Feature

Added a Sessions section to the landing page surfacing the Year One study sessions.
Added Sessions to the top nav (desktop + mobile).

0b7c506 · Add Sessions section and nav link to main page

Apr 32026

Session 002 interactive study guide

Feature

Built session-002.html + session-002.css + session-002.js: video hero, accordions, tabs, six modals, ten-question quiz.

1f5f996 · Add Session 002 interactive study guide

Apr 32026

UI polish · nav, footer, hero video, favicons, logo, quote fonts

Polish

Nav refinements; footer restructured with Network / Get Involved / LCRL columns.
Replaced static hero with looping video on landing page.
Standardized favicons to favicon-champions-network.svg across pages.
Logo + quote treatment finalized: Playfair Display Bold Italic for scripture, Bold upright for proclamation/First Amendment quotes.

a84764b · UI updates: nav, footer, hero video, favicons, logo, quote fonts

Mar2026

Initial build · brand standards · landing page · LAA podcast

Launch

Brand Standards Guide authored in markdown + rendered as brand-standards.html.
Landing page built (index.html + champions.css + champions.js).
4-part Liberty Action Alert podcast page (laa-podcast.html) with audio players, tabs, accordions, modals, promo section.
Repo initialized at github.com/garyricke/champions-network.

966c8e7 · Initial commit — Champions Network site

Internal Document

Current Budget Status

Check-In To-Dos & Open Items

👤 Gary's To-Dos

👤 Mark & Carly's To-Dos

✅ Direction Set (June 5)

🛠 Queued & Upcoming

Correspondence tab — every response email in one place

2-page conference brochure (front & back, one sheet)

Advocate Weekly email delivery plan (Resend) + budget scope fix

Advocate Weekly — on-site demo + click-through approval flow

Admin entry — password gate + slide-in panel

2027 March for Life — planning guide (print + web)

Champions Advocate Weekly — AI concept mockup

Request — AI-ify the "Champions Advocate Weekly" newsletter

Weekly check-in — production model rethink

Carly email forwarding live · on-site address updated

Session 003 — teaching videos + Mom & Pop links wired

Weekly check-in — walkthrough & direction set

Session 003 study guide built & published

Brochure walkthrough fixes · new artwork · 4-page edition

Brochure copy revisions · both editions rebuilt

Discreet admin entry + password-gated review docs

Site goes live · 8-page print brochure (two editions)

Mark Frith bio · full vocational history

Leadership images · third team card · Knight tier photo

Session 002 hero video

Sessions section + nav link

Session 002 interactive study guide

UI polish · nav, footer, hero video, favicons, logo, quote fonts

Initial build · brand standards · landing page · LAA podcast