Thanks Jeremy. I will take a look. I appreciate you sharing. I don't see the docs though.

I'm sorry Don - I should have said "comments in the code" rather than "docs" :-)

[Some programmers out there are probably thinking "the code is the document" ;-) ]

Hi Jeremy. I am not a programmer, so I am looking and do not see any comments. Is there a way to give a short blurb on how to use this script? I assume I will need to edit the template. Also, after I add the script, will I need to recompile the Template every time there is an update to the RMS?

Hey Don,
Looking at this code it wouldn't be a simple case of dragging and dropping it into what you're already doing (it mentions some Shepherd specific events)

Thanks Arran. They are not planning on implementing anything like this into the Rock are they?

Personally, I don't understand the appeal of a countdown timer; I know what day and time it is and when the next service starts. But everyone seems to be doing it. :-)

Do you have any suggestions on adding one?

I don't know if this is planned for core. I think at this point you'd have to be either comfortable editing your own theme files or have very regular service times in which case you could probably cook something up fairly easily with JavaScript.

It's not very Shepherd-centric - I suspect most churches can make use of it for a quick-and-dirty solution with a few changes in the code. The styling is CSS-driven. I'll repost with some additional comments in the code, however it's going to take someone with CSS experience to get it integrated... and editing the code directly is required to make changes to the event countdown.

For Shepherd, the code is edited once yearly for each of Christmas and Easter (look for the Christmas and Easter comment) as well as every other year for our Revival.

We'll add this to our list of blocks to create and release in the wild.

Thank you Jeremy, for taking the time to do this.