Privacy & using this site

Know what stays on your device and what you choose to share.

Discipleship guides and shared practice

Existing journals, individual assessment answers, exam reflections, and private practice plans stay private. The new lesson follow-up is private unless you choose to share it. Shared follow-up is visible to your currently assigned guide and master administrators. You can stop future access by unchecking sharing and saving. Your guide sees your name, email, church, learning completion summary, and shared follow-up. Guide assignment is managed by a master administrator. Readiness suggestions use completed courses and shared self-reported application, not Telegram message counts or an automated character score. Human interviews determine guide approval. Board oversight can read interview working notes and administrative activity but not your lesson follow-up. Roles, assignments, and readiness decisions are recorded for accountability.

Free guide and ministry updates

When you request the free guide, we store your name, email address, signup date, and your choice about ministry updates. The guide is available immediately on the page; automatic email delivery is not enabled. Updates are optional, and requesting the guide alone does not subscribe you. Addresses are not yet verified. Our authorized leader can view these records. Contact admin@jgcommunity.org to withdraw consent or request deletion.

Your Academy account

When you create a learning profile, your name and signed-in email are stored with optional church, ministry-role, experience, growth-goal, support-needs, and growth-challenges details; enrollments; course progress; quiz scores; saved journal notes; and your discipleship placement result. These records follow your account across devices. Our protected leader dashboard shows names, contact emails, optional church and ministry role, course counts, completed-lesson counts, and the current recommended growth focus. It does not display private journals, daily reading notes, or individual placement answers, character-reflection score, goals, support needs, or challenges. Use My Growth Track to export your learning record; contact us for help with deletion.

Weekly learning summaries

Weekly email summaries are optional and currently paused while delivery is connected. If you opt in under My Growth Track, we store your signed-in email, preference, and consent timestamp. The summary includes lesson titles, completion activity, unfinished enrolled lessons, practice review dates, and counts of other saved activity. It excludes journal text, private reflections, assessment answers, and coaching message text. Melvin, our private operating service, can prepare these summaries for opted-in members. Preview your summary or turn emails off in My Growth Track. Earlier completions without reliable dates are excluded from weekly totals.

Assessments and study notes

Church and leadership assessment answers, evidence notes, and action plans stay in the page unless you explicitly save a report to your Academy account. Saved reports and individual lesson practice plans are private to that account and excluded from the leader dashboard. You can reopen reports and review practice plans from My Growth Track. Standalone Devoted slide reflections remain in the open page until you close or refresh it. Your Academy profile assessment saves individual answers, six competency scores, a separate character-reflection score, and its framework version to your account when you submit. It retains your current result and, from this update forward, dated submissions in your assessment history. My Growth Track shows up to 100 recent entries. Earlier attempts cannot be reconstructed. Earlier framework results remain until replaced and should not be compared directly with the updated framework. You may explicitly save other personal assessment score summaries to My Growth Track. Course lesson journals and daily reading notes are saved to your account when you press Save; unsaved edits are not retained. Downloads remain on your device.

Coaching requests

Requests submitted from My Growth Track are stored with your account and made available to our authorized coach in the leader dashboard. Reno can save a response and next step that you can read in My Growth Track. Saving a response there does not send you an email or text. Requests do not reserve appointments. Only include information you want to share with our coach.

Consultation inquiries

The consultation form prepares an email for you to review. You send it through your own email app. It does not reserve an appointment. Information you choose to send is shared with our coach so we can respond. Avoid including sensitive member records or confidential financial documents.

Mr. Thomas — your AI guide

The guide is an AI assistant powered through Melvin’s ministry service. Questions are sent to that service and its AI provider for processing. Mr. Thomas uses a short conversation context while the page is open; this site does not save chat history. Personal progress guidance uses only your name, enrolled courses, and lesson completion records. It does not read private journals, reflections, assessment answers, or coaching messages. Those progress records are not included in the general AI question requests. Hosting and AI services may process technical logs under their own policies. Do not enter sensitive personal information. The guide cannot access private assistant records, send messages, or book appointments.

Access and linked resources

Public resources can be browsed without a learner profile. Google sign-in is handled through Supabase. We receive your account identifier and verified email; we do not receive your Google password or access to your Google Drive. Your session is stored in your browser so you can stay signed in. Use Sign out on shared devices. Website delivery uses Vercel and our existing hosted Academy service. ETS courses now run on this website without Telegram. Historical Telegram accounts and records are not automatically linked. The Academy and Resource Center run on this website. External research sources follow their own privacy policies. This site does not add analytics or advertising trackers.

How to use the materials

Assessments are tools for reflection and coaching, not diagnoses or guarantees of ministry readiness. Teaching materials retain their source attribution. Scripture and study questions are best explored alongside trusted ministry leaders.

Questions?

Contact admin@jgcommunity.org.

Updated October 26, 2026.