Faith community landing pages
How NextSet's faith-events directory works, what each tradition page offers, and how to get started with your community.
For: Faith community organizers
NextSet's faith-events section gives every major religious tradition its own public landing page — a starting point that shows how NextSet can support your community's live gatherings without flattening the rhythm that makes your tradition unique.
What the directory is
Head to nextset.ca/faith-events and you'll find a directory of 20 tradition-specific landing pages. They're organised into four broad family groups:
| Family | Includes |
|---|---|
| Abrahamic | Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and related traditions |
| Dharmic | Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism |
| East Asian | Shinto, Taoism, Confucianism |
| Indigenous | Indigenous spiritualities and additional traditions |
Within each group, every tradition has its own card. Click any card to open that tradition's full landing page.
What each tradition page contains
Each landing page is built around how that community actually gathers — not a generic "event software" pitch. You'll find:
- A hero section with a short description of how NextSet fits that tradition's event style.
- Key moments — the specific ceremonies, services, gatherings, and milestones NextSet helps you coordinate: weekly services, high holy days, rites of passage, community festivals, and more.
- Operations breakdown — the practical things NextSet handles: keeping speakers and readers on time, cueing volunteers, running audience and backstage displays, and building a structured order of service.
- Feature highlights — the specific NextSet tools that matter most for that tradition (for example, volunteer cueing for ushers and hospitality teams, or multi-campus coordination for denominations with distributed chapters).
- A FAQ covering common questions for that community.
Getting started
If your community is ready to run events with NextSet, the quickest path is:
- Visit nextset.ca/church or nextset.ca/faith-events and browse to your tradition.
- Read through the page to see which features apply to your gathering style.
- Click Create a faith workspace (or the primary call-to-action button on the page) to begin setting up your account.
- Once you're in, create your first event, build your order-of-service rundown, and invite your volunteers and production team.
What you can do with a faith-events workspace
Once your event is live, you get the full NextSet toolset tuned for faith communities:
- Order-of-service builder — lay out every moment of the gathering: opening music, scripture readings, sermons, prayers, transitions, and closing. Drag items into order, set durations, and share the rundown with your whole team.
- Speaker and segment timers — give presenters and readers a clear countdown on the director's screen or a backstage display, without awkward hand signals from the front row.
- Volunteer cueing — coordinate ushers, hospitality teams, AV crew, and any other roles with cues that reach the right people at the right moment.
- Audience and backstage displays — show the program flow on screens in the room, run a confidence view for speakers, and control everything from a single director console. All displays update live on their own — there's nothing to configure or sync.
- Live audience interaction — for community Q&A sessions, town halls, or engagement moments, the director can launch a live poll or question, guests respond on their phones, and results appear on the projector within a few seconds.
- Wedding ceremonies — if your gathering includes a wedding, NextSet has tradition-specific question packs for Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, and Quaker ceremonies (as well as Bar and Bat Mitzvahs), built right into the wedding planning flow.
Common problems
My tradition isn't listed in the directory. The directory covers 20 major traditions. If yours isn't there, contact us — the same tools work for any faith community, even if we haven't built a dedicated landing page yet. We're happy to help you get set up.
Can I edit the content on my tradition's landing page? The landing page content is managed by the NextSet team, not by individual organizers. If you see something on your tradition's page that is inaccurate or missing, reach out via nextset.ca/support and we'll update it. Your own event pages and workspace are fully under your control.
The "Create a faith workspace" button takes me to a generic intake form. That's expected — the intake form is shared across verticals. Select "faith community" or "church" as your event type and you'll get the right defaults.
I run multiple services or campuses. Can I manage them all in one place? Yes. You can create separate events for each service or campus and manage them from the same account. The rundown, timers, and volunteer cueing are all per-event, so each service has its own setup without interfering with the others.