A ten-week journey, walked in a cohort at your church

Discovering what God gave you, finding the reasons why.

Acts 3 Discovery guides a small group through ten weekly gatherings. Each week fills in one point of a personal Calling Star — your story, your Kingdom Expressions, your Spiritual Gifts, your people, your time and skills, and the passions God put in you. At the end you hold a picture of your calling, and your church holds a way to put it to work.

Works on phone, tablet and computer · English and Spanish · Nothing you write is shared unless you choose to share it.

✦ JourneyKingdom ExpressionsSpiritual Gifts PassionsResourcesPeople
The journey

Ten weeks. Six points of light.

Every week has a short teaching, three reflection prompts for a journal entry, and a set of questions that fill in one point of the star. Participants read, write and gather; a trained facilitator leads the conversation.

Week 1Regaining Your BearingsWhere are you in the journey of life?🗺 Journey
Week 2ReFocusing Your HeartFinding your “AHA” moments🗺 Journey
Week 3ReThinking Your PathTransformation starts with how you think🗺 Journey
Week 4Exploring the Impact of Your JourneySharing your Journey Map with your cohort🗺 Journey
Week 5Admiring the Master’s 1st StrokeYour natural talents — God’s first brushstroke💪 Kingdom Expressions
Week 6Discovering Your Kingdom ExpressionsThe sixteen-expression reflection💪 Kingdom Expressions
Week 7Embracing Your Spiritual GiftsThe Holy Spirit’s others-focused equipping✨ Spiritual Gifts
Week 8ReCalculating Your Worth & PeopleThe God-given entourage for your journey🤝 People
Week 9Gauging Your ResourcesTime (168 hours a week) and skills⏱ Resources
Week 10Detecting the Heat of Your PassionsThe fires God builds in your belly🔥 Passions
Two assessments, built in

Portraits, not verdicts.

Both assessments live inside the journey, save their results straight to the person’s star, print as a clean document, and read in English or Spanish. Both are written to be tested against a life, not to pronounce on it.

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Kingdom Expressions

Eighty paired reflections surface a person’s five leading expressions out of sixteen, grouped in four domains. The results page tells the story of the five together, names the shadow side of each, and says plainly when the sixth was a hair behind the fifth. A full report runs to a dozen pages; a summary fits on two.

Cultivatesustains and builds
Illuminatesees and clarifies
Shepherdcares and reconciles
Proclaimmobilizes and declares
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Spiritual Gifts

Paired statements across fourteen gifts, then a short Kingdom Energy Index that asks whether ministry actually feels life-giving. The scorecard gives a top three with activation ideas and the environments where each gift tends to come alive, and shows how the three work together — and how they sit beside the person’s Kingdom Expressions.

  • Retake any time; earlier results are kept, never overwritten
  • Save as PDF, print, or send — from a phone or an iPad too
  • Reflection questions at Weeks 7 and 8 feed an ongoing validation study
See it

What a participant and a church actually see.

Real screens from the app, filled with a sample participant’s journey. Nothing here is a mock-up.

The Calling Star with all six points filled in
The Calling Star. Six points, each a card: journey, Kingdom Expressions, Spiritual Gifts, people, resources, passions.
The Journey Map trail with dated markers and the trail log
The Journey Map. A life drawn as a trail, with every recorded event as a marker and a log beside it.
Kingdom Expressions results page showing the constellation and four domains
Kingdom Expressions. The five leading expressions as a constellation across four domains, then the story of how they work together.
Spiritual Gifts scorecard with top three gifts and energy index
Spiritual Gifts. A top three with activation ideas, and the Kingdom Energy Index beside it.
Participant dashboard with ten weeks and star progress
My Journey. Ten weeks, star progress, and the next gathering, on any device.
A week page with the reading and notes
A week. The reading, the reflection prompts, a journal that keeps every version, and the questions that fill a star point.
Where You Could Serve page ranking a church's service areas by fit
Where You Could Serve (serving tier). The church’s areas grouped Jerusalem to the uttermost part, ranked by fit with the reasons, and a hand to raise.
Site Admin Serving tab listing service areas with tags
The church’s side (serving tier). Service areas with their reach, partner and tags, a coverage strip across the four reaches, who raised a hand, and who fits an area that needs filling.
The Journey Map

A life, drawn as a trail.

From Week 3 on, the events a person records become markers along a hiking trail that climbs from woodland to a summit. Look at it from above, or walk it in first person — the weather, the light and the season change with the seasons of the life being walked.

  • Seasons of life marked along the path, with the people who were there
  • Hard seasons stay private by default; the person decides what a cohort sees
  • The map and Week 3 hold one set of events — edit either, both change
1997 · first job 2004 · married 2011 · the hard year 2019 · called ✦ now
For churches

Everything a church needs to run it well.

Acts 3 Discovery is run by churches, for their people. The app carries the whole operation: the cohorts, the facilitators who lead them, the leaders who oversee it, and the seats that pay for it.

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Facilitators

A roster of their cohort with week-by-week progress, a facilitator guide for every gathering, a presentation to show the room, and a certification pathway.

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Site Admin

Cohorts, participants and assignments for one church, or several. Buy seats in bulk, reserve them for named people, and see who still owes a reflection — never what they wrote.

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Ministry Leaders

A trainer workspace with controlled documents and a Ministry Leader certification built on the same standards as the facilitator pathway.

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A validation study, underway

Short reflections at Weeks 7, 8 and 10, community confirmation, and test–retest tracking feed a statistical validation of the assessments. Participants are counted only when they choose to answer.

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Sponsor seats

Any church or person can give the journey to another church. Sponsored seats are reserved and tracked like any other.

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Print and keep

A participant’s whole journey prints as one document — star, map, journal and results — for a binder, a mentor, or a conversation with a pastor.

Added layer · Serving Placement

From discovery to a place to serve.

For churches that choose it, the journey does not end with a star. Where You Could Serve sets a person’s results beside the church’s own service areas and ranks them by fit, with the reasons spelled out: which expressions and gifts an area calls for, which of their best contexts, what they said they are glad doing, and whether the time matches.

  • Areas follow the Jesus Model of Acts 1:8 — Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost part of the world — so partner ministries beyond the walls, local and international, sit beside the church’s own
  • What breaks a person’s heart (Week 10) counts toward the match, so a recovery partner or a refugee ministry can be someone’s next assignment
  • A participant raises a hand for an area, with a note to the leader
  • Leaders see who raised a hand and can look for people who fit an area that needs filling; an area can show how many people it needs
  • Email both ways: the leader hears when a hand goes up, the member hears when a leader responds or invites them
  • Three months after a placement the member is asked whether it stuck — the outcome measure for the whole layer
  • Facilitators see which of their people raised a hand, so Week 10’s next-step conversation has somewhere to start
  • Opt-in, person by person: nobody is listed until they say yes — and the server enforces it
  • A pre-tagged starter list of twenty-five areas, including generic partner-ministry areas in each outer reach, ready to rename after the church’s real partners
What a leader sees
Local Partner — Recovery & Re-entry 2 · Judea

with City Rescue Mission · Leader: Dana · Saturday mornings · about 1–2 hours/week

A. L. shares their fit profile
· expressions: Peacemaker, Nurturer, Faithful
· gifts: Mercy, Shepherding
· best context: One-on-one conversations
· what breaks your heart: Addiction & Recovery, Broken Families
· the one problem you would fix: Addiction & Recovery
Strong fit · 63
Pricing

Simple, per seat.

A church buys seats and places its people in them. Participants can also pay for their own seat when they sign up. There is no software fee for the church.

Participant seat
$40 / person

The full ten-week journey, both assessments, the Journey Map, print and PDF, and a Calling Star to keep.

Church seats
Bulk

Buy seats for a cohort or a season, reserve them for named people, and track every one from Site Admin. Validation cohorts may qualify for a discounted rate.

Serving Placement
Added tier

Switched on per church. Service areas, raised hands and the people-finder, with opt-in privacy built in. Ask us for church pricing.

Facilitator training licenses are bought separately through Site Admin.

Start a cohort at your church.

Talk with ACT3 Ministry about facilitator training, seats, and the first ten weeks.

Contact ACT3 Ministry Open My Calling Star