During the second half of 2007 I was called to be the Young Men’s Secretary in the Tomball Ward (of the LDS Church) in the Cypress Stake near Houston, Texas. Given the large number of young men we had at the time, record keeping was a bit of a hassle. Various leaders had disparate versions of excel spreadsheetings containing rosters, Duty to God, etc.

Having a background in web applications development, I immediately saw an opportunity to leverage a web-based system to better manage our records. Over the course of the 2007 Christmas break YouthMaster.org was born. Its original scope only consisted of Young Men / Duty to God (no Young Women, no Scouting, etc) for the Tomball Ward. Since then I have gone back and refactored the system to easily support multiple wards and incorporate Scouting and Young Women as optional modules.

YouthMaster.org is free for all, and I hope to keep it that way. I have no plans to move to a yearly/monthly fee as some similar sites have done.

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