The Dashboard: Your Command Center

The Dashboard is the first screen you see when you open Youth Ministry. It exists to answer one question: “What should I be paying attention to right now?” Instead of a generic home screen, it pulls live information from your events, roster, and prayer life into a single glanceable view.

What the Dashboard shows you

The Dashboard is made up of several sections, each pulling from a different corner of the app:

Upcoming Events

A short list of the next events on your calendar, with a summary card for each showing the dates, how many days away it is, and a progress bar if the event has a planner attached. Tapping a card takes you straight into that event.

Pressing Tasks

Tasks from all of your active events, filtered down to the ones that need attention soon. Tasks rise to the top when they are incomplete and their due date is approaching (or already past). This is the place to check each morning before opening individual events.

Students to Contact

A curated list of people from your roster who the app thinks you should reach out to. A student will surface here if:

• It has been more than three weeks since they last attended an event.
• They are a recent guest you haven’t logged contact with yet.
• Their birthday is coming up this week.
• You marked them as needing follow-up.

A colored dot shows attendance recency at a glance — green for recent, yellow for slipping, redfor not seen in a while, gray if there’s no data yet. Tap a student to jump into their profile, log a contact, or start a text/call.

Prayer Reminders

A gentle nudge showing urgent and stale prayer requests. A “Pray Now” button launches the Prayer Carousel (see the Prayer Space guide) so you can step out of admin mode and into prayer without digging through menus.

How the Dashboard is meant to be used

The Dashboard isn’t meant to be exhaustive — it’s a morning check-in. A typical flow:

1. Glance at Upcoming Events to see what’s on the horizon.
2. Knock out anything in Pressing Tasks that you can handle in a minute.
3. Scan Students to Contact and send one or two texts. Log each one as you go so the student drops off the list until next time.
4. Tap Pray Now before you dive into the rest of your day.

If you do this every morning, most of the app’s other screens are optional on any given day. The Dashboard is the hub; the rest is there when you need to go deeper.