Acts 3
Discovery™
My Calling Star™

Acts 3 Discovery™ runs in a web browser on any phone, tablet or computer. There is nothing to install, and everything you do is saved to your account rather than to the device in front of you — so you can start on a laptop and carry on from your phone.

Open the site and you will see the Acts 3 Discovery star, the tagline, and a card with two halves: Sign In and Create Account. Choose the half you need.

If you have signed in on this device before, you may briefly see "Signing you in…" instead — that is the app recognising you, and it will take you straight to your own starting page.

There are no navigation tabs. Three things get you everywhere:

1. Your home cards. Big tappable cards, one per area you have access to. This is your starting point.
2. The My Journey bar. A row of small buttons under the title of every journey page — Dashboard, Calling Star, Journey Map and so on. They switch what you are looking at without leaving the page.
3. The ← Back button in the header, which steps back the way you came. Your browser's own back button does the same thing.

A small ↗ after a button's name means it opens in a new browser tab — the app stays running behind it, and you return by closing that tab or switching back to it.

The bar across the top is always there. On the right you will find, in order: the ← Back button when there is somewhere to go back to, your name and role badge, the language toggle, and Log Out.

Log Out is immediate — there is no "are you sure". On a shared church computer, always log out when you finish; otherwise the next person will be signed in as you.

The 🌐 Español button in the header switches the whole app instantly and remembers your choice on that device. Press 🌐 English to switch back.

Buttons, labels, prompts, week titles, scripture and error messages are all translated. Three things are not, and are shown in English on purpose:

• The full weekly teaching text, which is drawn from the licensed Participant Guide. A note appears above it explaining that the prompts, passage and reflection around it are in Spanish.
• The two assessments and the printed guides.
• Names like Acts 3 Discovery, Calling Star, Kingdom Expressions and Spiritual Gifts, which stay in English everywhere.

You can put Acts 3 Discovery on your home screen so it opens like an app, without a browser bar around it.

• iPhone or iPad: open the site in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
• Android: open the site in Chrome, tap the menu, then Install app.

Different parts of the app save in different ways, and this catches people out more than anything else:

Full instructions come later, under If you forget your password, but the one thing worth knowing up front applies to everybody:

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Ten weeks, six points of light. Each week you read a chapter, write a reflection, and answer a set of questions that fill in one point of your Calling Star. By the end you have a complete picture of how God has wired you, where you have been, and what your next step is.

1. Open the app and press Create Account at the top of the sign-in card.
2. Fill in your full name, email, and a password of at least six characters, then confirm it. Phone number is optional.
3. Under Your Church, find your church in the list. It is grouped by region and sorted alphabetically. A green line appears underneath confirming your choice.
4. Press Create My Account →.
5. Check your email, confirm your address, then come back and sign in.

Many churches let you choose your own group. If yours does, the first time you sign in you will see a 👥 Choose your group card at the top of your dashboard.

1. Pick the group you are walking the journey with from the list.
2. Press Join this group and confirm.

Your facilitator will then see you on their roster, and the card disappears.

If you never see the card, your church assigns groups itself, or has not set its groups up yet. Nothing is wrong — your facilitator or administrator will place you.

Signing in takes you straight to your dashboard. Above every page in your journey sits a bar labelled My Journey with eight places to go:

Four numbers across the top show weeks complete, weeks in progress, star points lit, and the total of ten. Below them:

• Your 10-Week Journey — ten dots. Completed weeks carry a ✓; your current one has a ring. Tap any dot to open that week.
• ✦ Calling Star Progress — a small star, how many of six points are lit, and a chip for each point.
• ✦ Continue Your Journey — the big button into your next week.
• ✦ Quick Jump — ten numbered buttons if you would rather go straight somewhere.

Every week has two tabs. You always arrive on the first.

A running synopsis of the chapter, with scripture, a recap box, and a closing line pointing you onward. At the top, Open Week N ↗ opens Jeff's complete verbatim text in the Participant Guide.

Down the side is 📝 My Notes — a notepad for anything that strikes you as you read. It saves itself about a second after you stop typing; there is no save button and you do not need one.

This is where the work is recorded, in three parts:

1. The week's teaching — its Big Idea and three reflection prompts to guide your journal entry.
2. ✦ Journal Entry — write your reflection and press Save Entry ✦. Every save creates a new version; nothing is ever overwritten, and you can browse earlier ones under ▶ Version history.
3. ✦ Calling Star — the questions that build this week's point of your star.

At the bottom, a short checklist tracks two things: a saved journal entry, and the Calling Star section marked complete. Once both are ticked, press Mark Week Complete and the week turns gold.

Both are free, take about fifteen to twenty minutes, and open in a new browser tab.

1. In Week 5 (Kingdom Expressions) or Week 6 (Spiritual Gifts), press Take the … Assessment ↗.
2. Complete it in the tab that opens.
3. Come back to the Acts 3 tab. Your results are often there already; if not, press ⟳ Check for Results.

Kingdom Expressions surfaces your leading five of sixteen expressions; Spiritual Gifts gives you a top three. Both fill in their point of your Calling Star automatically, and both can be retaken. Retaking Kingdom Expressions asks you to confirm first, and your current results stay saved and visible until you finish the new attempt — if you change your mind partway, Discard the Retake on its welcome screen takes you back to them. Every completed attempt is kept, so a retake never erases an earlier one.

Read the Kingdom Expressions results as portraits rather than verdicts. Scores are close together by design, so when your sixth expression finished within a hair of your fifth the results say so and tell you to treat it as part of your leading group; two expressions with exactly the same score are marked with an equals sign in the full list of sixteen. After a retake, a section called What changed since … sets the two attempts side by side, with a reminder that a difference can come from the instrument as much as from you. In Week 7 two short items sit at the bottom of the week: a reflection on how well the results fit, including which one of your five fits you least, and a place to record what two or three people who know you said when you asked whether they recognise your leading expressions. Week 8 has the same kind of reflection for your Spiritual Gifts, including which of your three fits least. Those answers are how the descriptions get better.

At the end of either assessment you will find Save PDF, Send and Print. For Kingdom Expressions, Save PDF and Print first ask how much you want: the summary — about two pages — or the full report, which is everything on the results screen. The summary is your pattern across the four domains, your five leading expressions with what each contributes and where each tends to cast a shadow, then all sixteen in order; the full report follows that with each leading expression's complete narrative, its visible and quiet expressions, its reflection questions, the synthesis and your Calling Star section. Either choice opens the document as its own page in a new tab with a Print / Save as PDF button at the top — on a computer the print dialog opens by itself; on an iPad or phone, tap that button, then choose Print or Save as PDF. For Spiritual Gifts it is the pattern your three make together, each primary gift with how to begin using it and the settings it fits, the three emerging behind them, then the full ranking. Send opens your own email app with a draft you can address to whoever you choose. None of this is needed to keep your results — those are already saved in your Calling Star — it is for having a copy of your own, to carry into a conversation with your facilitator or someone who knows you well.

Six points, each fed by particular weeks:

On a computer the star is drawn as a six-pointed burst with a card at each tip. Completed arms glow gold; points you have not reached yet appear as soft clouds showing which weeks will fill them. On a phone the same six points appear as a simple vertical stack of cards.

Some churches add a serving layer to Acts 3 Discovery; if yours has, a 🙌 Where You Could Serve card appears on your home page (also reached from the foot of your Calling Star and from Week 10). If you do not see the card, your church has not taken it, and nothing in this section applies. The page sets your results beside your church's service areas — the ministries, teams and roles your church has entered in the app. Each area shows a fit label and, more usefully, the reasons: which of your Kingdom Expressions and Spiritual Gifts it calls for, which of your best contexts, what you said you are glad doing, and whether the time it asks for matches the hours you set aside in Week 9. Read the reasons, not just the label.

At the top, What this draws on lists what the page already knows about you and links to any week that would add more. The areas themselves are grouped the way Jesus drew the map in Acts 1:8 — Jerusalem (inside the church), Judea (our town, usually with a local partner ministry), Samaria (across a cultural line) and the uttermost part of the world (international partners) — because any one of the four may hold your next assignment. Areas that serve a cause you named in Week 10 as breaking your heart count toward the fit too.

1. Find an area that fits, or one you simply want to try. Press I'm interested, add a note for the leader if you like, and send. Your hand is up: the area shows Interested, and changes to Contacted or Placed as the leader follows up.
2. Withdraw takes your hand down again at any time.
3. The switch Let my church's leaders see my fit profile for all areas is off until you turn it on. On, leaders can find you when they look for people who fit an area, and may invite you — you then see Contacted on that area.
4. A word to your leaders is a free line for anything the list cannot hold — where you would like to serve, a season you are in, a partner you already know. Leaders see it on their Serving tab. If your church has not listed any areas yet, this is still the place to write; the first leader to open the tab finds it waiting.
5. An area that needs people shows its openings. When a leader marks you Placed, about three months later a card at the top of the page asks whether you are still serving there — one tap, with an optional note. Your answer goes to your church's leaders and, without your name, into the study of whether this matching works.

You get an email from Acts3 Discovery when a leader marks you Contacted, Placed or Not now, and when a leader invites you to an area; the leader gets one when you raise a hand. Replying to that email reaches the other person directly.

The map draws your life as a hiking trail, climbing from woodland to a summit, with a marker at each event you have recorded. There are two ways to look at it: from above, where a small figure walks your years and stops at each marker, and from the trail itself.

1. In the Trail log on the right, type the date. A year on its own — 1997 — is enough. To be more precise, month and year work either way round (06/1997 or 1997-06), and so does a full date (05/24/1997 or 1997-06-15).
2. Give it a title, and a note about what that date represents.
3. Under What it was pick a symbol, and under How it felt · up to 3 pick up to three feelings.
4. Press Add this year to the trail.

Hovering a row in the trail log reveals ✎ to edit and ✕ to remove it. Clicking the row opens a window with everything recorded about that event — its category, the season of life it fell in, the impact you chose and how it felt — with Walk to it to go straight there on the trail.

The symbol you choose is kept with the event. It also sets that event's category in Week 3 — the picture and the category are the same thing seen from two sides, so changing one changes the other.

Press Start walking and the view comes down out of the sky onto the path, facing the way your life went. Your events stand along it as signs, each with its symbol and, as you reach it, a card giving the date, your age, what it was and anything you wrote about it. The mountain ahead is where the trail is going; it grows as the years pass.

The landscape is doing something while you walk. The ground and the sky are drawn from what you recorded — rough ground and low cloud through hard seasons, open country and clear air through settled ones. Nothing is being scored. The trail always climbs; what changes is the character of the going.

Along the bottom is a ribbon showing your whole life end to end — the weather of each stretch, every event as a mark beneath it, and how far you have come. Walking, you can only see as far as the next bend, so it is the one thing that tells you where you are in the whole.

Under the trail log there is a box called Seasons of life. It lets you say what a whole stretch of your life was like, in your own judgement — which is a different thing from the events inside it.

1. Type the years the season ran between, in the same forms the trail log takes — 1994, 06/1994 or March 1994.
2. Choose one of the six: Radiant, Bright, Settled, Mixed, Heavy going, Storm.
3. Press Add this season.

The band along the top of the years strip shows it straight away, underlined to mark it as yours, and the weather on the walk follows. The ✕ beside a season removes it.

You do not have to name any. Where you have said nothing, the trail reads each stretch from the events and feelings recorded in it. Naming one is for when that reading does not match what you know — most people record weddings and births rather than the grinding years, so a hard decade can look deceptively bright until you say otherwise.

Under the map, the strip across the bottom reads left to right across your life. The coloured band along its top is your Season of Life. Below it, the red line is the going — low is easier, high is harder — and beneath that, the dark shape is the climb itself. Dragging anywhere on the strip walks you through time.

1. Open 🖨 Print from the My Journey bar.
2. Tick the sections you want — summary, Calling Star, journal entries, the map, your events, skills and resources. The cover page is always included.
3. Give it a moment if you ticked Journey Map (visual) — the map is drawn fresh for printing before the report opens.
4. Press 🖨 Print / Save as PDF. Your report opens in a new tab.
5. On a computer choose Save as PDF in the print dialog. On an iPhone or iPad, tap Print and then pinch outwards on the preview to save it.

A section you have not filled in yet is simply left out, rather than printing an empty page.

If nothing seems to happen, your browser has probably blocked the new window — allow pop-ups for this site and try again.

Almost nothing, unless you choose otherwise. Everything starts private.

Your facilitator and church admins can always see how far along you are — which weeks are complete and which star points are lit — along with the email address and phone number on your account, so they can stay in touch with you. Nobody else in your group sees your contact details. They cannot read anything you have written unless you share it, using one of three switches that sit beside the thing itself:

Each switch reads Private or Shared so you can see its state at a glance, and you can change your mind at any time.

One payment covers everything — both assessments, the Journey Map, and the full Participant Guide. There is no subscription.

• If your church has bought a seat for you, you will not see a payment screen at all.
• If your church has a partnership rate, the screen shows the standard price struck through with your reduced price beside it.
• Otherwise it is a one-time $40.

1. On the sign-in screen press Forgot your password?.
2. Enter your email and press Send Reset Link →.
3. Find the email — check your Junk or Spam folder.
4. If it is in Junk, drag the message into your Inbox first, then open it. Clicking the link straight out of Junk often stops it working.
5. Click the link, choose a new password twice, and press Save New Password →. You will be signed in automatically.

• Español. The header button switches the whole app between English and Spanish and remembers your choice. The buttons, prompts and week titles are translated; the full teaching text, the two assessments and the Participant Guide remain in English for now.
• Your work saves as you go, both on your device and to the server. If you ever see a warning that it could not sync, stay online and avoid clearing your browser or switching devices until it clears.
• Journal entries are never overwritten. Every save is a new version, and old ones stay readable.

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Anyone signed in can give the journey to a church — their own or another. It appears on every home screen, and participants reach it from the 💝 Sponsor Seats button in the My Journey bar.

1. Open 💝 Sponsor Seats.
2. Choose the church under Which church receives the gift.
3. Enter how many Participant seats ($40 each) and how many Facilitator licenses ($99 each) you would like to give. Either can be zero.
4. If you have particular people in mind, list them under Who is this gift for? — one email address per line, with a name after a comma if you like. Leave it blank to give to the church itself.
5. Tick Give anonymously if you would rather the church not be shown your name.
6. Check the estimated total, then press Continue to secure checkout → and pay.

Each sponsored participant seat covers one person's full ten-week journey; each facilitator license equips one leader with the complete toolbox.

Anyone you name gets that seat set aside for them the moment your payment goes through. Nobody else can use it — not another member of the church, not someone who signs up first.

They do not need an account yet. The seat waits for the email address you gave. Whenever that person signs up using it, their seat is already there. You do not have to create accounts for them, and you should not try to.

Anything you leave unnamed is held for two weeks. During that time it is not in the church's general pool and nobody can claim it — so you have room to decide, or to ring the church and tell them who the seats are for. Their administrator can then give each one to a named person.

After two weeks, whatever is still unnamed becomes an ordinary gift to the church, and its administrators hand it out as they see fit.

The receiving church sees a 💝 Recent Seat Gifts card on their Site Admin page listing what arrived and from whom — or "from an anonymous friend" if you chose that. Licenses, and any seats you did not reserve for a named person, land in their pools automatically.

Every purchase leaves the app for a secure checkout page and returns you afterwards. Confirmation can lag a few seconds behind the payment while it is recorded, so:

• If your access has not updated, wait a moment and reload the page once.
• If you closed the tab midway through checkout, simply re-open the app.
• Cancelling costs nothing — you will see "Checkout canceled — no charge was made."

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Your gift went through. The sign-in screen appears when your session times out while you are on the payment page; it is not a sign that anything failed, and a thank-you appears once you are back in.

You do not need to create accounts for the people you are giving to. Anyone you named at checkout already has their seat waiting for the email address you gave — they simply sign up themselves whenever they are ready.

You can only choose once, so ask your facilitator or church administrator to move you. It takes them a moment on their Assignments page.

That is normal. Either you are already in a group, your church assigns groups itself, or it has not set its groups up yet. Your facilitator or administrator will place you.

A week needs both a saved journal entry and the Calling Star section marked complete. Open the week and check which of the two ticks is missing.

They should not. Your work lives in your account, not on a device, and each one takes the account's copy when you open the app. If two devices disagree, the one showing more is usually the one that has been used most recently.

Close the app fully on the device showing less and open it again, which makes it fetch a fresh copy. Until you have done that, do your editing on the device you trust: whichever device you save on writes its own version of the list, so working on the out-of-date one can undo newer entries.

The Calling Star questions do not save by themselves. Always finish with 💾 Save Progress or Mark Calling Star Segment Complete ✦. Journal entries and reading notes do save on their own; those are the exceptions, not the rule.

1. Check Junk and Spam — this is where it usually is.
2. Drag the message into your Inbox before clicking anything.
3. Use Resend Link → if you need a fresh one; each link only works once.
4. Confirm the address is the one you actually signed up with.

A reset link works once. Some email programs — Outlook with Safe Links, some phone mail apps, Gmail's previews — open links on their own to check them, and that can use the link up before you ever click it. When that has happened the app now says so on the sign-in screen and offers a new link.

1. Press Send Reset Link → again to get a fresh link.
2. Open it as soon as it arrives, from the device you want to sign in on.
3. You should see Set New Password. Nothing is used up until you press Save New Password →, so if a scanner opened the link first it no longer matters.

Two things can look like that. The button at the bottom of pair 84 is greyed out until that pair has an answer, and until this update it stayed grey even after you answered — it now wakes up as soon as you choose. And Next → never stops you from skipping a pair, so it is easy to reach the end with a few unanswered. The progress line gives it away: 81 of 88 at pair 84 means three pairs are missing.

1. Answer pair 84. The button lights up.
2. If it reads Answer 3 skipped pairs →, press it — it takes you to the first pair without an answer, and again to the next until none are left.
3. When every pair has an answer it reads To Energy Questions →. The energy page also lists any pairs still missing, by number, with a button back to them.
4. On the energy page the counter at the bottom used to stay at 0 / 4 answered no matter what you chose; it now counts as you answer, and View Your Results → lights up at four.

Open assessments from inside the week, in the same browser where you are signed in — not from a bookmark or a different browser.

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Questions about anything in this guide:
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Acts 3 Discovery™ and My Calling Star™ are trademarks of ACT3 Ministry.
The Acts 3 Discovery Participant Guide is © 2025 Epiphany Publishing, LLC, and is reproduced within the app by permission.

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