For United Methodist districts
Connexion locates every church in your district, groups them into clergy cohorts of five to fifteen by real drive distance, and hands each one a season of studies, conversations, and shared mission — ready to gather.
See your district mapped
The problem
A solo pastor on the edge of the district has no peer within an hour’s drive, and the professional-development money you hold goes scattered or unspent. Meanwhile the churches hardest to reach — the smallest, most rural ones — are exactly the ones most likely to slip out of the connection altogether. Today this gets solved with a paper map, a roster, and whatever the district remembers. Connexion turns that into something you can hand off.
How it works
01
Every church located, every pin accountable.
Geocoded from public conference records and confidence-scored. The ones that land cleanly are marked confident; the stubborn rural few you confirm yourself on a map. Anything you can’t pin stays put at its rough location, flagged honest — never dropped.
02
Cohorts of five to fifteen, by drive distance.
Not as-the-crow-flies — real travel time, because a river with no bridge is not a cohort. Set your target size, propose, then nudge any church into another group. The proposal reads your clergy mix, so big-steeple and small-membership cohorts start differently.
03
A season of reasons to gather.
Each cohort chooses from a seasonal menu — text study, covenant group, charge-conference prep, a pulpit-supply pool. Connexion supplies the agenda, names a convener, and helps schedule the first meeting. Choice, not a mandate.
Proof of concept
Not a demo on slides — the real roster of a whole conference, every church placed and accountable.
The churches hardest to locate are almost always the smallest and most rural — the same ones least likely to join a cohort gathering. So Connexion never blocks on them: it keeps them on the map at their best-known location, marked approximate, and lets you refine when you learn more.
Why us
Connexion comes from Wroot Labs — named for Wroot, the Lincolnshire parish where John Wesley served. We know what a charge conference feels like, what itineracy costs a family, and why a “fellowship framework” makes a superintendent close the tab.
That’s why the templates use the real vocabulary of the connection, the location data is honest about its own uncertainty, and the tool never pretends the twelve-member church on a rural route is something it isn’t. Substance over slogans.
Get started
Tell us your district and we’ll map it — flagged churches and all — so your first conversation starts with your own district already on the screen.