A Shared Calendar for Your Small Church
Sunday service, potluck dinners, Bible study, prayer meetings — synced to every member's phone. No app to download. No accounts. No budget required.
Create Your Church Calendar — FreeSound familiar?
Your church has 60 members, no secretary, and no budget for church management software. Pastor Dave handles the preaching, the visits, the counseling, and the administration. He also fields text messages all week: "Is there prayer meeting this Wednesday?" "What time is the workday Saturday?" "Are we doing potluck after service?" He spends more time answering scheduling questions than preparing sermons.
The ladies planned a baby shower for one of the younger members. Word went around by mouth on Sunday, but the Petersons were out of town, the Carters had a family emergency, and the Williamses attend the second service and missed the announcement entirely. Twelve people came instead of thirty, and the guest of honor noticed the empty seats.
Your church shares a building with another congregation — you get Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. The other congregation booked a Saturday event that overlapped with your annual church cleanup. Nobody found out until both groups showed up with cleaning supplies and folding chairs on the same morning. There was no shared schedule because nobody had a good way to keep one.
How it works for small churches
Add your church events
Type in your services, Bible studies, potlucks, and special events. Pick dates and save. Takes 30 seconds per event.
Share with your members
Text the link to your members or announce it on Sunday. Everyone taps once to subscribe. That's the whole setup.
Events appear on every phone
Church events show up in their calendar app — Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook — with all the details and reminders built in.
The free plan is designed for churches like yours. No credit card needed.
Get Started FreePerfect for every small church event
Here's what small churches typically put on their shared calendar:
What this looks like in practice
Pastor Dave opens iCalFeed after breakfast on Monday. He adds the church workday for Saturday, updates Wednesday's Bible study topic to "Psalm 23," and adds the Thompsons' baby shower in two weeks. Total time: two minutes. He doesn't touch it again until next Monday.
Betty, who's been a member for 40 years, checks her phone calendar on Thursday. Her granddaughter helped her subscribe last month. She sees "Church Workday — 9:00 AM Saturday, Bring Rakes and Gloves" right next to her doctor's appointment. She would have forgotten about it entirely — she wasn't at church last Sunday when Pastor announced it.
On Friday, Pastor Dave realizes Sunday's guest preacher canceled due to illness and he'll be preaching instead. He edits the event description to remove the guest preacher's name and update the sermon title. By Saturday morning, every member's phone shows the change. No phone calls. No prayer chain relay. It just updated.
How iCalFeed compares
vs. Word of mouth on Sunday
Only reaches people who were there. Miss a Sunday and you're out of the loop for a week.
Every member has the full schedule on their phone, whether they made it to church or not.
vs. Group text message
Quick events get lost in a thread of "sounds good" and "I'll bring the casserole" replies.
Each event is a clean calendar entry. Conversations stay in the text thread; dates stay in the calendar.
vs. Paper flyer or bulletin
Small churches often can't afford to print and mail them. Handwritten ones get lost.
Completely free. No printing, no stamps, no paper. Just events on their phones.
vs. Facebook group
Not all members are on Facebook — especially older members who are the backbone of the church.
Works on any phone with a calendar app. No social media needed. Even flip phones with email can work.
Small church calendar questions
Your small church deserves a great calendar too
Start with the free plan — 1 calendar, 10 events. No credit card required.