The mission countdown poster, alive
Two years. 732 circles. One for every day.
Families hang a poster and colour in a circle each day of the mission. This is that poster as a living page: the circles colour themselves in every morning, the mission’s flag saturates behind them, and the whole family watches it happen — from anywhere, on anything.
The numbering is the printed poster’s own: counting up to the halfway day, then back down to zero on homecoming day.
How it works
A minute to set up. Two years of showing up.
Tell us the mission
Their name, the mission, the first day and homecoming day, and which flag the board should carry. No account, no app — one short form.
Get a private page
Your poster lives at its own unguessable link, something like trackmymissionary.com/A54kigl. Share it with the family; nobody else will ever find it.
Watch it fill in
A circle colours itself in each morning, the flag comes with it, and the big clock counts down — first to departure, then to the day they walk back in.
What the page keeps
Everything the wall poster does, and the things paper can’t.
The poster’s own numbering
Circles count up from 1 to the halfway peak, then back down to 0 on homecoming day — every number lived twice, except the top and the zero.
The flag fills in
Days still to come show the flag washed pale; every day lived paints its circle at full strength, band by band, until the whole flag stands finished.
Made for the phone in your pocket
On a phone the two-year grid re-flows into a week per line, scrolled to this week — the same days, the same numbers, none of the squinting.
Areas & companions, kept by the family
The ruled lines from the printed poster, editable from the page itself. Each transfer takes the next line; the current one is marked.
Milestones and their local time
Christmas calls, the halfway turnaround, the final hundred days — with a clock showing what time it is where your missionary is.
Print it whenever
One click prints the sheet alone — in colour, filled in to today — for the fridge, the grandparents, or the homecoming table.
Private by design.A missionary’s page says who they are and where they serve, so it belongs to the family alone: an unguessable link, no directory, no accounts, and search engines told to stay out.
Want a page changed or taken down? Write to hello@trackmymissionary.com and it is done.
Questions
Asked and answered.
What does it cost?
Nothing while we are in early access — create a poster and it is yours for the whole mission. If that ever changes, pages made during early access stay free.
Is my missionary's page private?
Yes, and by default. Every page lives at its own unguessable link, is listed nowhere on this site, and carries instructions telling search engines to stay out. Only people you give the link to will see it — there are no accounts to leak and no directory to browse.
Which flags can the poster carry?
The Philippines and Colorado today — each flag is drawn by hand so the day-circles colour it in properly, band by band. Tell us where your missionary serves and we will draw theirs next.
Can the family update it during the mission?
The circles mark themselves — nothing to do there. Areas and companions are yours to keep: a quiet link under the poster opens a plain form, and a new entry closes the current one on the same date, the way a transfer does.
Can we print it?
Yes — every page has a print view that drops the web chrome and puts the sheet alone on one portrait page, in colour, filled in to the day you print it.
What happens after homecoming?
The board completes — every circle coloured, the last one a zero — and the page stays up as the keepsake it always was.