Who can see a student's schedule?

Only leaders the ministry has invited and approved. A leader can only sign in from an invitation their ministry sent, students have no accounts, and a ministry only ever sees its own roster.

Do students need an account?

No. In the Stands is used by youth leaders. Students never sign in, and nothing is ranked, scored or shown to them.

How does a leader say they are going to a game?

One tap on the week board turns an intention into a commitment, so the student knows someone is coming and other leaders can see that student is covered.

How do we get In the Stands for our ministry?

Start it yourself — give your ministry a name and your email address, and follow the link we send. You become its administrator and invite your leaders from there. Questions go to hello@ourstands.com.

Nobody should look into empty stands.

In the Stands pulls every student’s game schedule into one place so your leaders can see where students are competing this week — and commit to being there.

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Free to set up. Your leaders join by invitation from you.

Friday, 5:00 PM

Football · Freshman

Tobias Reed

at Sanford · Field 3

No one going yet

I’m Showing Up

This is a real screen from the app, not a mockup.

How it works

Schedules land in one place

Team pages, school calendars, coach spreadsheets, that one group chat. They come together here so your leaders stop hunting for start times.

A leader says “I’m showing up”

One tap turns an intention into a commitment. The student knows someone is coming, and other leaders know that student is covered.

The gaps become visible

Every week you can see which students still have nobody coming — early enough for someone to change that.

The problem, exactly

Two games. Same night. Across town.

Everybody knows when the varsity game is. Almost nobody knows the freshman team is playing at the same time on a back field somewhere else. It isn’t that leaders don’t care — it’s that the information never reached them.

7:00 PM · Memorial Stadium

Dez Whitaker

Varsity football vs. Sanford

Marcus T. + 2 more going

5:00 PM · Sanford HS, Field 3

Tobias Reed

Freshman football at Sanford

No one going yet

One question, answered every week

Is someone showing up for this student? The coverage list sorts your students by who needs someone most — so the quiet freshman on the back field isn’t the one who gets missed again.

Nobody is ranked, scored, or shamed — students least of all.
Release a commitment early and the student goes straight back on the board.
Works on a phone in a parking lot, which is where it actually gets used.

Your leaders only

Anyone can start a ministry, but nobody joins yours without an invitation from you. Student names, schedules and venues are never public, and no other ministry can see them.

Leaders, not students

Students don’t have accounts and can’t be messaged through the app. Parents can ask to have a student removed at any time.

Public schedules only

The app imports the game schedules schools already publish, plus whatever a coach or parent chooses to add.

What it costs

$50/month

for the whole ministry

One plan, not one per leader. A ministry of forty leaders pays what a ministry of three pays — up to 250 students and 250 leaders, with every team, game and season included.

Free to set up, and free to try on a whole example season.
Photograph a team roster or a printed schedule and it enters the students and games for you.
Send one game out as a link — parents and grandparents can say they are coming, no account needed.
One predictable line in the youth budget — the same every month.
More than 250 students or leaders? That is custom pricing — ask us for a quote.

Everything a subscription covers →

Make sure no student is competing alone.

Give your ministry a name, and have your leaders on the board before this week’s games.

Start your ministry

Already have an account? Sign in. Questions: hello@ourstands.com.