For ministry leaders

A private notebook for the pastoral year

Sermon prep, prayer notes, scripture bookmarks, and the conversations you don't want to forget — in one place that's only yours.

Scripture
inline lookup
ESV + KJV, more on the way
Bookmarks
for the texts
You keep returning to
Tags
by series
Find the note from two Lents ago
Private
by default
Pastoral notes, kept right

Three notebooks in one

Sermon prep

Outlines, exegetical notes, the week's reading. Tagged by series so the right note comes back when you need it.

Prayer log

Names, dates, requests. Come back when one is answered — and when one isn't.

Pastoral notes

The small conversations and follow-ups that would otherwise slip. Kept privately and respectfully.

Scripture, woven into the work

Look up the passage in the editor. Bookmark it. Quote it inline. No second tab.

Bookmarked

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

2 Corinthians 5:7 · ESV

Coming back to this for the funeral on Saturday. Notes for the homily attached to this entry — outline draft below.

What's inside

Built-in scripture
Quote verses inline. Multiple translations, side by side.
Tags for series and themes
Find the one note from two Lents ago.
Bookmarks
Keep the passages you keep returning to one tap away.
Private
No feed, no audience. Pastoral notes stay pastoral.
Voice notes
Pray out loud, record it, transcribe later. The praying matters more than the typing.
Exports for the file
Export a series, a year, or a single entry as PDF or Markdown for the church record.

A workable rhythm

  1. 1
    Set up a journal per area

    One for sermon prep, one for prayer, one for pastoral notes. They live separately and search together.

  2. 2
    Tag everything you write

    By series, by theme, by name. The work pays off the third Sunday in.

  3. 3
    Bookmark the texts you return to

    A small canon of your own. One tap away every week.

  4. 4
    Look back periodically

    On this day across years and tag-based filters surface what you wrote a year, two years ago.

Where it fits the year

Sermon prep
Saturday afternoon

Pull up the passage. Scribble the outline. Bookmark the verses for next time.

Lent / Advent
A season of teaching

Tag every entry with the season. Next year, the whole previous series comes back in one filter.

Pastoral visit
Notes after the conversation

Three lines on the way home. Names, what to follow up on, what to pray for.

Funeral / wedding
Notes for the homily

Bookmarks, drafts, family details — kept together and easy to come back to.

Frequently asked

Sojourner has no public feed and no algorithmic resurfacing. Your pastoral notes are encrypted in transit and at rest, and never used to train anything. Sharing is a deliberate act.

A pastoral notebook that respects the work

Free to try. Start with sermon prep this weekend.