A Prayers Module Overview
Church Social includes a prayer wall feature, which gives members a place to share prayer requests with other members. Answered prayers can be archived, helping everyone focus on current requests. Prayers requests can be organized into categories like congregational concerns, political matters, or mission and outreach efforts.
This feature can be enabled by your Church Social administrator on the Prayers page within your account settings.
An advantage is that the Prayers feature allows further granularity of messages and notifications in Church Social. Use of this feature will move some of your messages traffic to this new section of the Church Social app and can reduce clutter in members inbox.
Configuring Permissions
By default, all members are able to post prayer requests. However, you can choose to limit this to:
- Church Social Administrators
- Office-Bearers
- Communicant Members
- Baptized Members
- Everyone
Prayer Request Notifications
When a prayer request is created, an email notification is sent to all active members (who have an email address on file), if the person creating the request chooses to notify members. If church administrators would like to disable this feature, they can do so from the Prayers settings page.
Individual members can also manage their own prayer notification preferences. On the Notifications page under My Profile, they can choose to stop receiving these notifications.
Posting Prayer Requests
When posting a prayer request, members can choose to have their name shown (the default), or if they prefer, they can post their prayer request anonymously. They may also add a pertinent image to the prayer request.
Mobile App Support
The native iOS and Android apps also support the Prayers feature. When the Prayers feature is enabled, you'll see a new prayers button appear in the main navigation. This screen will show your church's latest 15 prayer requests. Please note that (at least for now) you can only create prayer requests in the web app.