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# How to Create Your Account

This article walks you through creating your CordLine account so you can start sharing updates or following the missionaries you care about.

## Signing up

1. Open the CordLine app or go to app.cordline.app in your browser.
2. Tap **Sign up**.
3. Choose how you'd like to sign up — with your email address, or with your Google account for one-tap access.
4. If you use email, enter your address and create a password. We'll send a short code to your inbox to confirm it's really you.
5. Enter the code, and you're in.

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## What happens next

If you're joining to **follow a missionary**, you'll usually arrive through their personal invite link, so your account is connected to them right away.

If you're a **missionary setting up your own ministry**, you'll be guided through a short setup where you add your name, a little about your ministry, and your first update. Don't worry about getting everything perfect — you can change any of it later.

## A few tips

- Use an email address you check often, since that's where connection and notification emails will go.
- If you signed up with Google, you won't need a separate password — you'll just tap "Continue with Google" each time.
- Your display name is what supporters see, so pick the name people know you by.

## Trouble signing up?

- If the confirmation code doesn't arrive, check your spam folder and give it a minute before requesting a new one.
- If you already started an account with the same email, use **Sign in** instead.

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