Managing Year Plans
A year plan is an ordered list of lessons — week 1, week 2, week 3 — that churches apply in B1 Admin. You can publish a plan for any curriculum in the library. Optional calendar fields tell B1 Admin which month week 1 belongs to and which weeks must land on Easter or Christmas.
Before You Begin
- Have admin permissions for Lessons.church
- Have at least one program with published lessons
Creating a Plan
- Open Admin → Year Plans.
- Click Add.
- Enter a name (for example, "Elementary 2026–27" or "High Voltage Year 1") and optional slug.
- Optionally set a default venue preference — comma-separated venue names used when a week does not specify a venue.
- Optionally set Year starts in (for example January) so churches apply the plan against a real calendar year instead of a bare start date.
- Check Publish when churches should see the plan in B1 Admin. Leave it off for a draft.
- Add weeks from any curriculum: choose a source, then program, study, lesson, and venue. Click Add. A single plan can mix programs if you want. Use the arrows to reorder.
- For seasonal studies, set a week's Anchor to Easter or Christmas. Anchor the last week of the study so the series lands on the Sundays leading up to that holiday.
- Save.
Churches apply a published plan from B1 Admin → Serving → Plans → Schedule Lesson → Apply Year Plan. Calendar-anchored plans ask for a target year and date range; other plans still use a first class date and week count. They edit individual weeks there afterward; FreePlay plays whatever is on the plan.
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