How to Use Revering the Word

Getting started: sign up for the 3-Year or 1-Year Plan

You sign up for a plan and create your account in one go, from the plan cards.

1. Go to the Bible plan cards on the home page. You can also choose Bible Plans in the menu at the top.
2. Pick the plan you want:
   • 3 Year Plan | Full Bible: the whole Bible, beginning today.
   • 3 Year Plan group start: the whole Bible, beginning with everyone else on the next January 1 or July 1.
   • 1 Year Plan | New Testament: the New Testament, beginning today.
3. Click the button on that card: Start My Journey, or Prepare My Heart when the group start is still ahead.
4. A form called Track Your Bible Journey opens. It shows the day your reading begins.
5. Fill in your email address, a username (you will sign in with this), your name (optional), and a password of at least 8 characters, typed twice.
6. Click Save My Journey.
7. Check your email for a message from Revering the Word, and click the button in it to confirm your address. Your plan starts tracking once you do, and a welcome email follows.
8. Click Sign in at the top of the site and enter your username (not your email) and password.
9. Click My Journey at the top. Your first reading is waiting.

Already have an account? Sign in first, then click Start My Journey on the card you want and click Start to confirm. You follow one plan at a time; starting the other pauses the first and keeps your progress.

Forgot your password? Click Sign in, then "Forgot password", and we will email you a link to set a new one.

Prefer not to make an account? Click Follow along by email on a card to get each day's reading by email every morning. Nothing is tracked on the site. Every card also has a PDF of the plan to print.

Following your 3-Year or 1-Year Plan

Both plans work the same way: you read one day's passage at a time, and the site keeps your place.

My Journey: your reading each day

Once signed in, choose My Journey at the top of the page. It shows:

• today's reading, with the full Scripture text and the day's teaching to play;
• your progress: days read, which day of the plan you are on, and the percentage complete;
• your personal calendar (see "How the calendar works").

When you finish a reading, choose Mark as read. Choose it again if you marked it by mistake. Playing a day's teaching on its calendar page also marks that day as read.

Falling behind or catching up

The plan follows the calendar, so it keeps moving if you miss a day. Missed days stay on your calendar, and you can open any of them and mark it read later.

If you were already reading from the PDF or the daily emails before you signed up, use Mark what you've already read on My Journey. Enter the day you are on (the reading number, for the New Testament plan), and the site marks every day before it as read and puts you on that day.

Emails you will receive

• With an account, you get encouragement emails at milestones along the way (3-Year Plan), or a welcome and a completion email (New Testament Plan). Your daily reading is on My Journey rather than in your inbox.
• Following by email only, you get the day's reading each morning.
• You can change these at any time in Settings, or from the link at the bottom of any of our emails.

The 1-Month plan

Each month we pick one book of the Bible to read in about 30 days: a short, doable daily reading with a podcast teaching. It is a good place to begin if you are not sure where to start. The 1 Month Plan card on the home page and the Bible Plans page shows this month's book.

1. On the 1 Month Plan card, download the PDF.
2. Start any day you like. Day 1 is the day you begin; there are no dates to fill in.
3. Read one day's passage each day and tick it off as you go.

No account or sign-up is needed for the 1-Month plan, and it is not tracked on the site.

How the calendar works

The calendar shows every day of your plan, what to read on it, and whether you have read it.

Your reading calendar

Your personal calendar is on My Journey and opens on the current month.

• Move between months with the arrows, or jump to a year and month with the drop-down lists.
• Each day shows its plan day number and its reading.
• The colors tell you where you are:

Choose any day to open its page. A day's page has the reading, the Scripture, the teaching to play, and a discussion where members share comments on that day's passage. Use Previous and Next to move a day at a time, or Back to Calendar to return.

The full 3-Year calendar is also open to everyone under Bible Plans → Online Calendar, so visitors can see the plan before they sign up. The New Testament plan's calendar is on My Journey, with Saturdays and Sundays marked as rest days.

Group start dates

Twice a year, on January 1 and July 1, we begin the 3-Year Plan together as a group. The group start card on the home page changes through the year to match:

If you choose Prepare My Heart, your plan waits for the start date, and nothing is sent until then. You can always start on your own instead with 3 Year Plan | Full Bible.

Fellow Messenger

Fellow Messengers are partners who support the ministry with a gift, and in return join a closer community around the Word.

What Fellow Messengers receive

• A paperback copy of Altar'd.
• A Revering the Word lanyard with invitation cards to share.
• Occasional personal messages from Pastor Jay.
• The forum, for Biblical questions and prayer requests (below).
• Everything every member gets.

Our team reaches out to welcome each new Fellow Messenger and mails the partnership package.

Becoming a Fellow Messenger

1. Choose Become a Fellow Messenger on the home page.
2. Choose how you would like to partner: monthly, quarterly, an annual gift, a one-time gift, or "I am already supporting".
3. Choose an amount ($25, $50, $100 or your own).
4. Choose how to give: card, check or Zelle. The form shows the details for a check or Zelle.
5. Enter your mailing address, so we can send your package.
6. If you don't have an account yet, the same form signs you up: enter your name, email, a username, and a password typed twice. Then confirm your email from the message we send. If your email already has an account, sign in first and the form asks only for what is missing.
7. Submit the form. Giving by card takes you to a secure payment page to finish.

The forum: prayer requests and Biblical questions

Once you are a Fellow Messenger, choose Forum from the menu under your name. It has two categories:

• Prayer Requests: share what you would like prayer for, and pray for others.
• Biblical Questions: ask about a passage or a teaching, and talk it through with other Fellow Messengers.

To start a conversation, choose Create Thread, pick a category, add a title and your message, and attach pictures if you like. To answer someone, open their thread and use Add a Reply at the bottom. You can react to a post (Like, Helpful, Insightful), edit your own posts, and choose Report Post if something doesn't belong.

Your profile and account

Once signed in, click your name at the top right.

• Profile: your name, a short bio and a favorite verse, and Change Password.
• Settings: your email choices, your preferred Bible translation and your time zone.

Deactivating or deleting your account is at the bottom of your Profile, under Your Account. Both ask for your password.

• Deactivate switches your account off for now. Nothing is lost: sign in again with your username and password whenever you like, and it switches back on.
• Delete closes your account. After 30 days your details, notes, bookmarks, highlights and reading progress are permanently erased. Within those 30 days, contact the ministry if you change your mind.

The parts of the website

The menu at the top of every page leads to each part of the site; on a phone or small screen, it folds into the menu button.

The links at the bottom of every page lead to About, the Media Library, this guide, our Terms and Privacy Policy, and the ministry's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.