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# Pastoral Care organizes rites, coverage, and preaching

> Care teams can coordinate rite checklists, bounded caregiver handoffs, and dependable preaching plans.

# Pastoral Care organizes rites, coverage, and preaching

*July 25, 2026*

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Pastoral Care now gives authorized staff focused sidebar workspaces for funeral
and wedding details, caregiver absences, and preaching plans. Each workspace
opens directly from the `Pastoral Care` submenu under `Church Management`, so
staff do not need to switch between unrelated tools on one page.

## Rite Runsheets

Staff can start a funeral or wedding runsheet from an existing confidential
care case. A practical checklist covers family communication, participants,
service details, venue, documents, music, and logistics. Private family and
coordination details remain encrypted.

## Bounded Caregiver Coverage

Coverage Mode snapshots a caregiver's active cases for a defined absence.
Covering staff can record minimum next actions and review activity during the
window. When coverage ends, open work is handed back for re-entry review.

## Dependable Preaching History

The preaching calendar records the actual scheduled date, speaker, audience,
service, series, Scripture, and important liturgical or civil moments. Plans
marked delivered build a reviewed Scripture ledger from launch forward rather
than treating old upload dates as preached dates.

Successor dossiers, personal-story storage, historical sermon import, and
specialized or anonymous care workflows remain deferred until their own
governance and safeguarding rules are ready.