A note from Josh Tune, the person behind MyWardPage
I'm Josh Tune. Utah, with roots back in Kiribati. Husband. Dad to two girls and a boy.
I've spent years in a Bishopric — Ward Executive Secretary first, then a Stake Assistant Clerk, now a Counselor. Different callings, same problem every time. Keeping a ward's communication in one place is hard. Announcements live in a group text. The calendar lives behind a login. The Sunday program lives on paper that's in the recycling bin by Monday.
I'm a web developer. So I did what web developers do — I built something.
A couple years before COVID, my Bishop wanted to cut down on printing. A new program every Sunday, used for an hour, then thrown away. So I put together a simple webpage instead. That was it. A fun little project, nothing more.
Then COVID hit. Sacrament meeting moved from the chapel to Zoom, like it did for every ward in the country. The little webpage stopped being a fun little project and started being one of the only places members could find what was happening.
Three Bishops later, I'm still running a version of it. Not because I set out to build a product — because it never stopped filling a gap.
Other leaders started asking for their own version. I always wanted to say yes. Family, work, callings — there was never enough time to make it something anyone else could actually use.
This year that changed. AI tools made the kind of focused build I'd been putting off for years finally realistic on the side. So I built it — something any ward could sign up for and run themselves.
That's MyWardPage.
I don't want to replace anything The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides. This exists because I felt the current system misses a few things — a calendar people can actually find, a program that doesn't need printing, one link members can bookmark without logging in.
If the Church ships something that covers this, I'll point people there. That's not a hedge. That's the whole point.
There's a small monthly charge. It covers hosting and the tools that keep this running — nothing more. I'm not trying to build a business here. Just trying to not lose money keeping it alive.