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Public Page

Public Page is where you set up who the missionary is and what shows on the public page. It has three sections in the second menu: Profile, Sections & links, and Help Fund My Mission. Changes save automatically as you go — there's no Save button, and a small confirmation appears after each edit.

Renamed, and a couple of things moved

This area used to be called Site Settings. Two of its old sections now live where the job belongs: approved senders and reply-to are under Delivery & Domain → Incoming mail, and Test mode (formerly Maintenance mode) is under Letters → Test mode.

Missionary details

  • Honorific — Elder or Sister. This sets the pronouns used on the public page (he/him or she/her). Leave it blank for gender-neutral language.
  • Missionary name, mission name, and mission location. Set mission location to a real place (for example "Paris, France" — the mission office is a good choice): until the missionary drops a map pin, the public map centers there. A place name like "France Spain Mission" can't be mapped, but a city and country can.
  • Bio / description — a short blurb shown under the name on the public page.
  • Missionary photo — upload a photo (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, HEIC or AVIF, up to 10 MB) and it's resized to 800px automatically, or paste an image URL.
  • Mission start date — used for the end-of-mission timeline and the Letter Book.

Incoming mail & replies

This section controls how letters get in and where replies go.

  • Missionary's direct email — the missionary's personal address. It's used as the Reply-To on broadcasts, so when a subscriber replies, it goes straight to the missionary.
  • Reply-To address — by default this is the missionary's direct email. Check Send replies to a different address only if you want replies to go somewhere else (a parent's inbox, say).
  • Approved senders — your missionary's own email address (the Direct email above) is always allowed to send to your intake address, so you don't need to add it here. Use these optional slots to approve up to three more addresses — for example, a parent who relays letters on the missionary's behalf. Mail from anyone not listed here, and not the missionary's own address, gets a polite bounce-back.
  • Auto-relay letters from approved senders — when on, letters from approved senders broadcast immediately, skipping the Pending review queue. Leave it off if you'd rather approve each letter first.

Start with auto-relay off

Until you're confident in what the missionary sends, leave auto-relay off and review letters in Letters → Pending. Turn it on once the routine is smooth.

Help Fund My Mission

A toggle that adds an opt-in donation section to the public page. When on, the page shows a Church Account Donations button that sends visitors to donations.churchofjesuschrist.org, with the missionary's unit number as a one-tap click-to-copy chip and a short note explaining how to give.

  • No money flows through Mission Broadcast — it's a direct link to the Church's official donation page.
  • You'll need the 6- to 9-digit unit number for the missionary's home ward or branch. Your ward clerk or financial clerk can give it to you (it's also printed at the bottom of paper tithing slips).
  • The section reassures donors that their gift is private — your family can see the amounts contributed, but never who gave.
  • You can customize the Heading and the explanation text. The donate button label is fixed ("Church Account Donations"). You can optionally include the donation link at the bottom of every broadcast email.

Show a list of links on the public page — a photo album, Instagram, a blog, whatever you want to share. Add as many as you like; leave it empty to hide the section.

Page sections

Choose what shows on the public page and in what order. Drag to reorder, or use the up/down arrows, and toggle the eye to hide a section. The header and footer always show — they identify the missionary.

Maintenance mode (test recipients)

A safety switch for testing. When on, broadcasts go only to test recipients (up to 3 addresses you specify) — real subscribers receive nothing, and the letter stays in Pending so you can send it for real later.

While the switch is on, a banner appears across every console page so you don't forget it's active.

New sites are test-only until you activate

A brand-new site is in Setup mode: this switch is locked on, and broadcasts go to test recipients no matter what — until you tap Activate site in the top banner. Activating opens your real subscriber list and starts your paid service clock. See Getting started. After activation, this switch is yours to flip whenever you want to rehearse a letter against your own inbox.

Turn the switch off before a real broadcast

It's easy to forget. If subscribers report they aren't getting letters, check here first.

Next steps

  • Set how your broadcasts look in Email design — the greeting, signature, and "Serving From" line use details from this page.
  • Once approved senders are set, the missionary can write from the field: What you can do by email.
  • Run the whole site at your own web address with a custom domain.