Work with people, not spreadsheets.
WardCentral is a purpose-built admin tool for ward bishoprics — plan meeting programs, schedule announcements, track callings, and manage assignments, with effortless onboarding from the three standard LCR reports. Every common task is faster, more secure, and less error-prone than the spreadsheet it replaces.
Why bishoprics need this
Spreadsheet friction
Tracking meeting programs, callings and assignments in spreadsheets is manual, error-prone, and tedious to keep consistent.
Lost continuity
Bishoprics turn over at least every five years. Each transition often restarts from scratch and institutional memory leaks away.
Data-handling risk
Member data in personal online spreadsheet accounts is a privacy risk and can lead to sharing data inappropriately.
How it works
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Install the WardCentral browser extension
Add the LCR to WardCentral extension in Chrome or Brave web browsers. You will use the LCR to WardCentral extension to automatically copy data from LCR pages. It collects no other data and runs only on LCR pages when you click "Copy for WardCentral".
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Create your WardCentral account
Enter your email, password, and mobile phone number, and the signup wizard walks you through the LCR report copy/pastes.
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Copy & paste all three LCR reports
Loading your ward data into WardCentral is easy — no files to export, no awkward manual steps to clean up the copy/paste from LCR. Open the browser extension you just installed, then click Member Callings. Once you're signed in and on that page, reopen the browser extension and click Copy for WardCentral. Return to your WardCentral signup tab, then paste the report and submit. Repeat for the Member Directory and Organizations reports.
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Start saving time
Once WardCentral confirms your bishopric calling, your ward activates on the spot. You land signed in and ready to start planning Sacrament meetings, organizing speaking and prayer assignments, and scheduling announcements.
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Invite others
Your bishopric counselors, ward clerk, and executive secretary can coordinate with you on WardCentral with an easy invite link. You can also invite the music coordinator to plan Sacrament meeting music in a specialized view, and a custom-calling "ward communication specialist" can help you manage announcements and program printing.
Get the extension
The extension supports Chrome and Brave only — Edge, Safari, and Firefox are not supported. (The WardCentral web app itself runs in any modern browser.)
What you can do
Privacy & security
Member data is encrypted and scoped to your ward's verified leaders — never shared with other wards, never sold, never used to advertise. The companion extension only reformats reports a leader is already authorized to view in LCR; WardCentral never logs into or scrapes LCR itself. We collect minimal personal information and act as a data processor — your bishopric is the data controller.
Who it's for
WardCentral is built for the people who run the ward day to day: the bishop and his two counselors, the ward clerk, and executive secretary. Your ward music coordinator can use WardCentral to plan Sacrament meeting music, and a custom-calling ward communication specialist can manage announcements that are published to the auto-generated program and conducting notes. You can also invite all of the other music staff in the ward for a read-only view of the music plan and their assignments in Sacrament meeting.
Confidential data access (meeting planning, callings, ordinations, assignments) is gated to verified bishopric members of your ward — and a new bishopric inherits a working system instead of a confusing spreadsheet or having to start over.
What's next
On the roadmap — not part of v1
WardCentral starts with the most time-consuming tasks: sacrament meeting planning, music planning, callings, and priesthood advancement. In the future we plan to add member-facing value: online sacrament-meeting programs, announcements, opt-in group messaging, and integration with the Church's calendar and ward home page — without compromising the leaders-only, minimal-data foundation.