Features - WithYou

MAKE YOUR OWN PATHWAYS

Pathmakers

WithYou is not just something to use. It is a way to build.

PATHWAYS

Extend your content.

Pathmakers helps your content keep going. Sometimes the content becomes the pathway. Sometimes the pathway wraps around it and carries it forward. Either way, what you are already making can move beyond the original moment and become something people can actually walk through together.

Your WithYou Page gives that work a public home. Your pathway sets gather into one library, and people can keep up with new material as you share it.

GROUPS

Build your community.

WithYou does more than help you share what you have made. It gives your people a place to live it together. When the people in a group are connected to the same pathways and the same direction, the experience stops feeling like just another chat app and starts feeling like a shared environment shaped around what matters to you.

Your people, your pathways, your shared life together.

STEPS

Establish your culture.

When people hear the same things, walk through the same pathways, and respond to them together, culture begins to change. What used to be heard and forgotten starts getting practiced. What used to be consumed starts being lived out together. Over time, the things you care about do not just get talked about. They start becoming normal.

That is how content becomes formation.

IN PRACTICE

Ways to use your pathways

These are some of the ways your pathways can be put to work.

Churches

Turn sermons into something people actually live out.

Set up the church Page

Create a Page for the church with your name, image, vision, and description. Use the feed for what is happening this Sunday and what the church is inviting people into. Load your main pathway sets there, usually the current sermon series and a few core discipleship pathways. Make the senior pastor and a few trusted staff the hosts.

Write a pathway to go with the sermon

Take the sermon and write a simple one-to-one pathway to go with it. Put that pathway into the current sermon-series set. Now the sermon is not just something people heard once. It has a shape they can actually walk through with the speaker.

Invite people to follow and message the speaker

On Sunday, put up the QR code for the Page and invite people to follow it. Tell them clearly that if they want to actually live out the sermon, they can message the speaker and go through it together. The invitation is clear, and it is coming from the person who preached.

Load the pathway and walk it through one-to-one

When someone messages, load that week’s pathway into the chat and start walking through it with them. The conversation stays on the topic they asked for, it has a defined shape, and it has a natural finish. Both people know what they are there to do.

Let the testimonies reshape the culture

The next Sunday, invite one or two people to share what it was like to actually live out the sermon. Then do it again with the next sermon, and the next. Before long, the whole church starts to feel the difference. People stop assuming the sermon is something to forget by lunch and start realizing that in this church, the expectation is to respond.

Groups

Give your group a clearer direction during the week.

Set up the group Page

Create a Page for the group with your image, vision, description, and basic information like when and where you meet. The Page keeps the vision clear without having to restate it all the time. The feed becomes your running update stream for practical group life, and the pathway sets show what kind of formation the group is trying to create.

Invite people to follow the Page

Invite people to follow the Page before inviting them further in. That gives them a chance to see what the group is about, where it is headed, and what kind of pathways it is built around. It also gives the leader more permission, because people are not stumbling in blind.

Invite the right people into actual groups

From the people who follow, invite the right people into actual group chats. Not everyone needs to be in the same one. You might end up with two or three groups. This moves people from casual visibility into more intentional shared life and gives them a clean place to connect.

Use outlines to lead the gathering itself

When it is time to lead the group night, use outlines. These are your classic in-person materials: Bible study flow, prayer liturgy, Lord’s Supper guidance, discussion structure, or sermon follow-up material. That means the leader is not left guessing what to do when everyone shows up in the room.

Use group pathways to create a shared rhythm

Invite the group into shared rhythms when it makes sense. That might be a week of prayer and fasting before Easter, an Advent pathway, a week in Psalm 23, or a short rhythm of praying for one another. The group gets a simple way to respond together during the week instead of only seeing each other at the next meeting.

Use one-to-one pathways for personal care

When someone in the group needs more personal follow-up, use a one-to-one pathway. That gives the leader a practical library for real issues that need to be worked through personally. Instead of vague concern or endless coffee meetings, there is a shared process for staying with someone through something specific.

Events

Keep the conversation going after the event is over.

Create the event group

Set up a group for the event and assign your ministry Page as the referring Page. That connects the event to your larger ministry from the start instead of leaving it as a standalone moment.

Invite people into the group

Invite participants into the group so you have a clean place to follow up with everyone together once the event is over.

Run a short follow-up pathway

Send a group pathway for the next couple of weeks, with a simple question every day or two. Ask for reflections, testimonies, and what people are taking away from the experience. Let people process together while the event is still settling in.

Let the rest of the set open up what comes next

At the end of the pathway, people will automatically see the rest of the pathway set. That can include your one-to-one pathways, outlines, group pathways, or other material you want them to keep using. The last step can make the handoff explicit: this was the start, now keep going.

Let the referring Page connect them to your ministry

When they finish, they will see the WithYou Page for your ministry. From there they can follow your work, see new material, and find the next event or next pathway set. The event does not have to disappear when it ends. It can lead people into an ongoing relationship with your ministry.

Strangers

Start a conversation without exchanging personal contact information.

Create the Page

Set up a Page with a clear description, a simple vision, and pathway sets people can choose from. This gives you one visible place to invite people into a next step instead of improvising every conversation.

Share the Page

Meet people however you meet them and share the Page by QR code, link, email, social media, or anything else. The point is that you can invite someone into a conversation without giving out your phone number or asking for theirs.

Let them message the host

When someone is interested, they message the host directly. That gives you a clean, low-pressure way to begin. They do not have to hand over personal information, and you do not have to open up your private contact details to everyone you meet.

Choose a pathway together

Your Page already shows pathway sets, so there is something concrete to choose from. You and the other person can agree on one pathway and start there. That gives the conversation a shared topic, a clear beginning, and some healthy boundaries while trust is still developing.

Projects

Handle a small project together, from first agreement to final reporting.

Set up the Page

Start with a Page that explains the project clearly: what it is, who it is for, what the money or work is meant to accomplish, and who is inviting people into it. Before anyone joins, gives, or agrees, they can see what this is and what process they are being asked to enter.

Add the project Pathway set

Load the Pathway set the group will use for the project. This is where the project stops being vague. The set can include discernment, funding, transfer, and reporting pathways, so everyone can see the process before deciding whether to take part.

Gather followers and form the group

Invite the people who may want to be involved to follow the Page. That lets them understand the project before stepping in. Then form the working group from the people who are actually participating. Now the project has a defined circle of responsibility, not just general interest.

Walk through the project together

Use the pathways in order. Start with discernment so the group can test the idea and decide whether it should go forward. Then use the funding pathway to collect support, and the transfer pathway so both sender and recipient confirm what was sent and received. The whole process stays visible and agreed on.

Close the loop with reporting

Finish with a reporting pathway that shows what happened. The recipient or project lead can answer the agreed questions, share the outcome, and attach evidence such as updates, photos, video, witnesses, timestamps, or location. That creates a record built from the project itself, not a summary reconstructed later.

More ways use your pathways

Across distance Keep walking with people when they go home for summer, move away, or stop showing up in person.

Coaching Walk a leader through pathways one-to-one as they learn to lead a group, a ministry, or a new initiative.

New believers Take someone through a simple set of first-step pathways over time, one conversation at a time.

Open the Editor.

Start with one message, one idea, one training, one video, or one set of questions. Turn it into a pathway and see what happens when people begin to live it out.

The Editor is free to use while it's in beta testing.

Open the Editor