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Group Management
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Church Center Group Attendance
As a group leader, you will receive an automated email reminder to post attendance for your group from Church Center.
Select the “Take Attendance” blue button link in the attendance email you receive to login and enter your attendance in Church Center.
Please login by entering your mobile phone or email you have used in the past to access your group. Then enter your texted or emailed one-time use auth code to login. No password is needed.
If your group’s schedule changes, you get a “New member request” email or you want to change your group settings, you will need to login to Planning Center Groups. See directions below….
Your Group Did Not Meet?
If your group did not meet a particular week. You can select the “Events” menu item and then the particular meeting date. Then in the options menu select the “Cancel” option.
You can also go to the “Events” menu and select an event date to post attendance.
Need to add a member to your group?
If you want to add someone to your group, you can send them an invite to join the group. They will then need to respond to actually join the group. There are 2 ways you can invite people to join your group in Church Center.
- Select the “Members” menu item and then the “+ Add Member” button. Then select the “Copy URL” link and then compose an email to the new group member inviting them to the group. Remember to paste the invite url into your email.
- If you are with them, you can have them scan the qrcode with their phone to receive the invite.
- Lastly you can direct them to go to https://calvaryefc.churchcenter.com/groups and search for your group if it is listed and select the “Request to Join” button. Then as a leader you will get an email asking you to approve their request to join the group.
Add a group member
Copy the "invite URL" link and paste it into your invite email
Group Invite accepted
Respond to new member requests to join your group.
If your group is open and listed in Church Center, people will be able to go to search for your group and request to join your group in Church Center.
- You can direct new prospective group members to go to the calvaryefree.church home page and select the person icon in the homepage menu which is a link to Church Center. Then they can go to groups and search for your group if it is listed and select the “Request to Join” button.
- As the leader of the group, you will get an email asking you to approve their request to join the group which will redirect you to the Orange header groups Planning Center web page and ask you to login to accept the request. You can also accept the request by logging into church center and viewing your group “Members” page.
Calvary Home page person icon link to Church Center
Church Center group search
Church Center Request to Join a group
Church Center email to view new member group request
Church Center email to view new member group request
Church Center review applicants
View group member contact information
- As a leader of your group, you can view your member’s contact information in Church Center.
- Select the “Members” menu item and then the one of the group members to view their contact information.
- Group members who are not leaders will not be able to see members’ contact information unless they select “Edit visible info”. To help encourage the group to connect with one another, everyone the group including the leaders can share profile photo, email and phone.
View member contact info
Edit your visible information in Church Center
Make your contact information is visible to your group in Church Center
Remove a group member from your group
As a leader of your group, you can view your member’s contact information in Church Center.
- Select the “Members” menu item and then the one of the group members to view their contact information.
Manage your group in Planning Center
You and all the members of your group can go to https://calvaryefc.churchcenter.com/groups directly via a web browser or though the Church Center mobile app and login to view group member’s contact info, message one another, view group resources.
Manage your Group in Planning Center Groups portal
As leader of the group, you can also manage your group by selecting the “Manage on Planning Center” Actions menu item. You will then be asked to login with a planning center password.
Login into Planning Center
Login with the email you have listed in your Church Center user profile as your primary email. It is recommend that it be the email you want to receive our Calvary weekly emails.
You may have a Planning Center password from volunteering in Worship or Children’s Ministries or if not or you do not know your password select the “Need a password?” link to set a new password.
Whitelisting instructions for the common email providers like gmail and outlook can be found online.
Email your group in
Church Center
In Church Center Groups, you as a leader can email your whole group or selected members. Select the “Email group” button to compose and send your email. Please note, group members cannot email the group and their replies will only go to the group leaders.
If you or members of your group are not receiving email from Planning Center or Church Center in your primary inbox, you may need to add the following emails to your email contacts.
Email addresses to add to your contacts
- mailer@churchcenteronline.com
- No-reply@planningcenteronline.com
- No-reply@churchcenter.com
Group Resources
in Church Center and Planning Center
In Planning Center Groups, you can not email attachments to your group or embed photos in your email. But you can upload files and view files on your group resources page.
Update Settings in Planning Center Groups
In Planning Center Groups, you can email your group, update your group settings, add and remove group members.
But some group settings are not available, please contact Gail Peterson at gpeterson@calvaryefree.church if you want to do things like create, list, make private or close a group.
Planning Center Group Leader documentation can be found here:
https://pcogroups.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006319853-Introduction-to-Groups-for-Leaders
If you have any questions, feel free to ask, gpeterson@calvaryefree.church