Prayer
Standing with a request is not a like — the card says ten with Nina, and those ten are the people who said they would pray. Only the person who asked can move it, so nobody else decides when your situation is over.
The answer came, and it was hard. So we stop asking for that, and stay with you. That request stays open, never expires, and never nudges anyone again.
Closing a request
God answered closes the thread and moves it to Praises. Still praying adds a line and changes nothing else. And it went another way keeps the request open — the group stops asking for that specific thing and stays with the person.
A hard answer gets no confetti and no filing away. Every choice takes as much or as little as you want to write, and there is a switch that says I’d rather not say more right now — so the group learns what happened without anyone being made to explain it.
The gathering
Gatherings show who is coming and who is not, so nobody cooks for fourteen when nine are turning up. The address sits on the invitation, where only the group can read it, and never on a public listing.
The passage
Groups choose the reading long before they meet, so nobody arrives cold. Tapping it opens Thread Bible Study, which keeps its text on the phone — so it still reads on a commute or in a hall with no signal.
Everything for a gathering sits with that gathering: the passage, the discussion questions, the study video. Longer-lived things — the reading plan, the group covenant — sit on their own shelf.
Chat
The group thread, plus one-to-one side conversations for the two people sorting out the meal — without starting another group chat that nobody leaves.