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A guide to current capabilities, including features from earlier releases. Access depends on your account and church permissions.

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Posts and conversations

Public pages and search

Useful public pages have clear titles, stable links and current public details.

Browse church pages, published public events and public conversations. Follow their links to read the current source and its audience. Search engines refresh their own results on their own schedules.

Member profiles, private tools, drafts and search filters stay excluded from indexing. Prayers and posts with a content note need an author-supplied safe excerpt for search discovery. A search result never grants private access or verifies church authority.

Open Public pages and search

Choose new-post alerts

Turn on a private bell for future posts by a person or church.

Open their profile or church page, open the relationship choices and choose Notify me of new posts. Choose Activity and phone categories separately in Notification preferences. Turn the bell off at any time.

Verified adult accounts with current access. Follow, favorites and membership do not turn on the bell or phone alerts. Mutes, blocks and current source permissions still apply; enabling a bell does not deliver older posts.

Open Choose new-post alerts

Discovery and private feed settings

Read For You, Following, Your Church, Churches, Local, Public or Favorites using choices you control.

Choose a feed in Home or My feed, then open Feed Settings. Select exact topics, languages, traditions, post types or a broad area, and save a strict or explicitly expanded preset. Why this post explains the reading set. More/Less changes topic recommendations; hidden words and topics apply across all Home feeds. Refresh when you want a new set.

Guest choices stay on that browser. Account preferences and favorites stay private. Following uses current follows; Your Church requires an approved connection. Public and Local never include church-only posts. Recommendations use explicit choices, not inferred faith or reading time.

Open Discovery and private feed settings

Optional post discovery labels

Choose a language, tradition or broad locality for an individual post.

Open Optional discovery choices in the post editor. Leave labels unclassified or choose your own description. To publish a country or town, confirm that you want to share that locality. Changing the area asks for a new confirmation. Private drafts retain your entries; editing can clear the labels later.

Labels follow the post's existing audience and never change account beliefs, membership or permission to read. Locality uses a named town center, with no GPS or personal address. Public discovery requires an eligible public post.

Open Optional post discovery labels

Topic communities

Explore public communities around faith and everyday life, or create a topic with its own rules.

Open Topic communities from Home, Explore or Menu. Read freely. Join and accept the current rules to start a discussion or reply as yourself. Follow separately to add posts to Topics I follow. Owners manage rules, membership restrictions, accepted moderator offers and ownership handoffs from Manage this topic.

Anyone can read public topics. Creating, joining and contributing require a verified adult account. Topic authority stays within that community. Following does not turn on phone alerts. Archived or moderated topics and restricted content are unavailable to readers; public sharing always checks current access.

Open Topic communities

Prayer and private follow-up

Acknowledge prayer, save a private reminder and follow author updates on posts, comments and replies.

Choose Pray, read the first-use guide, then choose I prayed after praying. Your name stays hidden unless you share it. Save privately and choose future author updates independently. Return from Menu > My private prayer list. Authors can publish an update or praise report in the same discussion.

Verified adult accounts with current source access. Prayer records do not measure faith or grant permissions. Phone alerts require a separate choice and enabled device. Undo removes the acknowledgment and name; removing a private save leaves the acknowledgment unchanged.

Open Prayer and private follow-up

Follow a conversation

See new replies to a followed conversation in your Activity.

Open a post’s discussion and choose Follow conversation. Choose Default to return to direct replies and mentions, or Mute conversation to stop its Activity and phone alerts. Enable optional Replies in conversations you follow in Notification preferences.

Current account and source access are required. Following a person or church does not subscribe to every discussion. Phone alerts require a separate opt-in and an enabled device; later choices do not send old replies.

Open Follow a conversation

Pin a post to your profile

Feature one of your published personal posts at the top of your profile.

Open your post’s More options, then choose Pin to profile. Pin another post to replace it, or choose Unpin from profile to restore the normal order.

Your own published personal posts only. The original audience, source permissions, Likes and comments stay the same. A pin does not change Home or feed ranking.

Open Pin a post to your profile

Your Activity

See grouped messages, contact requests, replies, mentions, saved-prayer updates and report updates in one personal view.

Open Activity from Menu or Messages. Choose a category, open an available item or mark a group read. Mark all read covers every category through the loaded page; later updates stay unread. Older activity keeps your place, and an unconfirmed read change offers the same retry.

Verified eligible adult accounts. Links and names require current source access. Optional notification choices and mutes still apply; Messages retains its own history and pending requests. Reading Activity cancels an optional phone alert that has not started delivery. Already delivered phone notifications remain under your device controls.

Open Your Activity

Private contact requests and Messages

Resume accepted adult conversations from a profile or the Messages tab, with private history and personal inbox controls.

Open a person's profile and choose Message. When contact operations are available, a new contact starts with a short request and explicit acceptance. Use Messages for prior history, Requests for decisions and Contact preferences to choose who may ask. Conversation options include mute, archive and clear for me; a message's More menu reports that selected item. Unconfirmed sends retain an exact retry.

Verified eligible adult personal accounts. New requests default to No one. New contact and sending require current reporting coverage; the interface explains when they are paused. Blocks stop new sends. Clear for me does not erase the other participant's history. Optional phone alerts have separate controls and do not grant contact permission. Attachments, groups, delivery/read receipts and email are unavailable.

Open Private contact requests and Messages

Repost and add your thoughts

Bring an eligible public post to your profile or add your own words above it.

Open Repost, then choose Repost or Add your thoughts. A plain repost keeps the original author and offers Undo. A quote opens a private draft in the shared composer. To allow others to repost your original post, open Edit post and enable reposting.

Verified adult accounts; the source must remain public and its author must allow reposts. Church destinations require current publishing permission. Source withdrawal or restricted access hides the original preview. Share sends a link; Bookmark saves privately.

Open Repost and add your thoughts

Founder welcome and replies

Read a clearly labeled welcome and choose whether to reply directly to Andrew.

When welcomes are active, finish account setup and verification, then open Messages. Reply to Andrew uses the same private conversation. Optional founder announcements have their own preference, separate from personal replies.

New eligible adult accounts only, once each after verification and required setup, while founder operations are available. No existing-account backfill is sent. Replying does not change ordinary contact preferences or create a friendship. Current blocks and account restrictions apply.

Open Founder welcome and replies

Community polls

Ask a question and choose one or several answers with readable vote totals.

Write and publish a post, then choose Add a poll from the composer. Set 2–8 choices and a closing time. Members can change their vote before closing; authorized post editors can close voting.

Verified adult accounts; church polls also require current church approval. Private drafts retain the post and reply permissions; poll setup happens after publication. Other members see totals, not your ballot.

Open Community polls

Add and arrange post photos

Upload up to ten photos, arrange their order and add captions.

Open your post, then Manage photos. Choose files, save them and edit the gallery. Each file has its own progress and retry. Move photos earlier or later and save their order. In Settings, Reduce photo data loads one smaller post preview at a time.

The current post owner manages its photos. Church posts also require current publishing authority. Existing audiences and reply permissions apply. An interrupted save can be retried unchanged; conflicts keep your local edits for review.

Open Add and arrange post photos

View photos

Open readable photos, move through a gallery and zoom in.

Tap a profile photo, cover or post photo. Use Previous and Next, swipe or arrow keys to move through a post's photos. Zoom in for detail, then Fit photo. Close, Escape or Back returns to your place.

Each photo keeps its current source audience. Member profiles require sign-in. Unavailable photos remain private; opening the viewer adds no access.

Open View photos

Share a post

Share a thought, prayer, testimony, Scripture reference or link.

Open the community, choose a post type and audience, review who can reply, then publish. Under Content note and preview, you can add a note and choose a short safe excerpt. Edit these choices later with Edit post. Authorized church moderators can change discussion settings with a recorded reason; post managers can review recent moderation decisions.

Sign in to publish. Church publishing requires current authorization.

Open Share a post

Private drafts

Save work and resume it in the shared composer.

Choose Share a post to open the editor. Save draft is at the top right; Post is at the bottom. Open Drafts to resume the same saved copy. Close or Back offers save, discard unsent changes or keep writing; resolve conflicts and uncertain retries before closing.

Only your account can read its drafts. Publishing rechecks current access and reply permissions.

Open Private drafts

Comments and replies

Join a conversation, react and reply to someone.

Open a post's comments, then Write a comment or Reply. The editor shows who you are replying to, with Save draft at the top right and Reply at the bottom. For a lost Like response, choose Retry same Like choice. After a conflict, use Refresh Like status before choosing again.

Sign in; the post's current reply permissions apply. Authors can edit or remove their own comments.

Open Comments and replies

Unsent comments

Return to saved comment work with clear save and retry status.

Open Comment drafts and resume the target conversation in the shared editor. Save draft keeps your text privately; closing can save or discard only unsent changes.

Private to your account; unavailable conversations cannot be posted to.

Open Unsent comments

Feed choices and focused reading

Choose a community or discovery feed, then read in List or Pages.

Choose a feed in Home or My feed. Your account remembers that choice. Latest shows public posts; Friends shows accepted mutual friends; Top This Week counts Likes received in the last seven days; Trending gives more weight to recent Likes. Refresh posts updates the reading set. List, Pages and display settings stay separate.

Public posts are available to guests; private posts require access.

Open Feed choices and focused reading

Bookmarks and collections

Keep posts in a private library and organize collections.

Tap Bookmark on a post. Open Bookmarks from Menu to organize private collections, or tap the filled bookmark again to remove it.

Signed-in account. Saving never grants access to a withdrawn or restricted post.

Open Bookmarks and collections

Account and profile

Getting started at your pace

Resume useful next steps without repeating completed setup.

Open Next steps and this week on Home, or Getting started in Help. Review your church request, optional profile and sharing choices, and saved church listing or representative drafts. Choose Later to hide a hint; restore it from the full guide.

Signed-in accounts. Optional hints never change contact consent, follows, verification or church permissions. Existing listing and representative setup remain separate, resumable paths.

Open Getting started at your pace

Church tools

This week at your church

Find current events, church notices, open serving roles and your commitments.

Open Next steps and this week on Home. Choose a current approved church connection, review its Start here welcome and next seven days, then open an event or post to decide whether to participate.

Current approved church members see only permitted source records. Following a church or a pending request does not provide private access. Changed or withdrawn sources are checked again.

Open This week at your church

Church welcome and follow-up

Choose a church welcome and help with deliberately labeled introductions and questions.

Church publishers choose an existing church-authored Start here post in Welcome and follow-up. Authors can label a published church post in Manage post → Welcome and questions. Separately authorized welcome hosts review unanswered or handled threads and date-filtered participation totals.

Current publishing or explicitly delegated church welcome host permission. Labels do not change audiences; handled status sends no message and is not a public score. Totals exclude private prayer participants, contact lists and passive reading activity.

Open Church welcome and follow-up

Scheduled church posts

Prepare a church post now and choose a future publication time.

In the post composer, choose your authorized church identity, enable Schedule publication and enter the time and time zone. Your private draft retains the plan. After scheduling, open Your drafts > Scheduled church posts to edit, reschedule or cancel it.

Current church publishing access, checked again at publication. Plans stay hidden until published. Lost access, restored plans or a delay over one day return to a draft for publisher review. Personal, quote and topic posts publish immediately unless kept as private drafts.

Open Scheduled church posts

Getting started

Exploring Faith and participation choices

Choose how you would like to participate, including Exploring Faith.

Choose during account creation, or change your saved choice in Edit profile. Exploring Faith means: I’m learning about Christianity and figuring out what I believe.

Exploring Faith is private to your account. Participation choices do not grant church or staff authority, and ordinary verification and age requirements still apply.

Open Exploring Faith and participation choices

Our mission

Jesus gave us a mission. You have a part to play.

Read our shared calling, then explore believers and churches. Create an account when you are ready to participate.

Mission pages and public conversations are available without an account. Participation and church tools retain their current account and access requirements.

Open Our mission

Optional phone notifications

Choose independent Activity and phone alerts, with private previews, quiet hours and a test you control.

Open Settings > Notifications > Notification preferences. Choose Activity and phone categories for replies, mentions, followed conversations, prayer, author bells, reactions, church changes and commitments. Phone delivery also requires Enable notifications and your browser's permission. Set quiet hours or choose Send me a test notification. On iPhone, first add the app to your Home Screen using the installation help.

Eligible verified adult accounts and a supported browser with delivery available. Permission is requested only after your tap. Provider acceptance does not prove your phone displayed an alert. Signing out or switching accounts removes the old association; in-app messages remain available without push.

Open Optional phone notifications

Privacy and account

Scoped report review

Authorized reviewers can inspect selected reports, record reasons and apply scoped post or comment restrictions.

Open Your reports and the review link. Inspect the selected source, choose a decision and author explanation, then confirm its preview. Lost responses keep the same retry. Author reconsideration cases open in the assigned reviewer’s existing help inbox.

Explicit current report authority for both original and current source scopes. Hide, remove and restore preserve source audiences, reply choices and author withdrawal. Case status alone does not change content. Reconsideration uses the assigned reviewer, including the founder for founder-reviewed cases; it is not independent review. Account restrictions require their separate authority.

Open Scoped report review

Decisions about your content

Read a private explanation and request reconsideration of a decision about your post or comment.

Open Your reports, then Decisions about your content, or follow its Activity update. Inspect the decision and your selected text. Review who will receive your request, explicitly agree, then send it. Continue replies in the linked help case.

Current eligible personal authors or publishers for the speaking church. Reporter identities and private review notes are excluded. Reconsideration is available only while the assigned reviewer has current authority. It does not automatically restore content or provide independent review.

Open Decisions about your content

Private reports and receipts

Check reporting availability from a post, comment, profile or church, and revisit your own private receipts.

Open More, choose Report, then select a reason and optional details. If reporting is available, send once and open your private receipt. A lost response offers Retry same report. Menu > Your reports lists your own submissions.

Verified adult accounts with current access to the item. New intake remains unavailable until reviewer operations are enabled for that scope. No report is submitted when intake is unavailable. Reporting does not automatically restrict content or accounts; church representation disputes use the existing claim review.

Open Private reports and receipts

Searchable settings

Find account, privacy, reading and church choices in clear folders.

Open Menu, then Settings. Search words such as password, alerts or hide phone, or choose a folder. Related personal settings link to existing privacy, directory, calendar and notification controls. Preview text, theme and reading layout in Display before saving. Reading preferences can be restored separately on this browser.

Sign in to your account. Browser appearance is separate from personal and selected-church settings. Church tools require current access. Contact preferences govern new adult requests; messaging and optional phone notifications retain their current eligibility and operational requirements. Family and payment controls are unavailable here.

Open Searchable settings

Your data and browser permissions

Understand your account export, browser permissions and taking a break.

Open Settings, then Your data. Review camera, microphone and location status without requesting access. Use the browser help links to change those permissions. Confirm your account to prepare a private export; save it within one minute or prepare a new file. Review deactivation and any duty handoff separately.

Signed-in account. Exports, deactivation and permanent deletion require current account confirmation. Permanent deletion explains immediate access loss, retained shared history and removal deadlines; its availability is shown before confirmation. Browser status does not grant church access or publish your location. General connected-app permissions are unavailable.

Open Your data and browser permissions

Account and privacy

Review your actual sign-in methods, account security, privacy and available data controls.

Open Settings, then Account to review masked sign-in contact, email verification and active sessions. Confirm your account to sign out other sessions; the list refreshes after confirmation. Open Privacy to review saved mention permissions and follower/following count visibility, with separate profile, directory and post-audience guidance.

Your signed-in account; sensitive changes may require verification.

Open Account and privacy

Help and support

Find help and contact the support team through the available intake.

Open Settings, then Help and about. Search current help for audiences, calendar sharing, display or quiet hours. Open Help and contacts for the relevant route; the same folder links to policies, the loaded app version and retained release notes.

Church-only contacts require approved access. Delivery and response are separate from submitting a request.

Open Help and support

Events and calendars

Volunteer roles

See available places and offer to help at an existing event.

Open an event’s volunteer post and choose I can help for an available role. Review or cancel your signup in My commitments. Event RSVP is a separate choice. Church and feed cards label times in your device’s time zone.

Current eligible church members and authorized organizers. Full, closed or canceled roles cannot accept new signups. No waitlist or reminder delivery is implied.

Open Volunteer roles

Calendars and events

Browse events and manage calendars you are allowed to edit.

Open Calendars or a church calendar, then open an event for details.

Public church events are public. Private calendars and editing require current access.

Open Calendars and events

RSVP and commitments

Respond to events and review your volunteer commitments.

Open an event to respond, then use My commitments to review or change your response.

Sign in and retain access to the event. Canceled events remain clearly marked.

Open RSVP and commitments

Churches and community

Church welcome and next steps

Find relevant ways to get to know a church and take your next step.

Open a church page for upcoming events, its published website and your available next steps. Optional profile and follow prompts disappear once completed; pending connection requests are acknowledged. Approved members can open ministries, teams and responsibilities.

Actions reflect current account and church access. Following grants no membership. Community listings still require legitimate representative review before management; published program content depends on that church’s records.

Open Church welcome and next steps

Find your church

Explore listed churches, their posts and upcoming events.

Find a church, open its overview and follow it or request it as your Home Church.

Public listings are open to guests. Home Church requests follow the church's approval process.

Open Find your church

Your church tools

Find the church tools available to your current role.

Open a church page. Manage church links to its profile, logo and cover, team, roles and privileges when your permissions allow them. Contributors and representatives can check their own request and next action. Church image managers can choose, crop, replace or remove a logo and cover.

Approved membership and current permissions are required for management. Contributing a listing or saving a claim does not appoint a manager. A logo and verified management are separate facts.

Open Your church tools

Home Church and directory

See your church connection and authorized member information.

Open My church to review your connection, sharing and available church tools.

Approved membership and role checks control directory and management access.

Open Home Church and directory

Follow, favorite, mute and block

Choose the people and churches you follow and manage relationship preferences.

Open Settings, then Safety, to review blocked or muted accounts. Search your private list by name, open Connections controls and confirm an unblock when wanted. Unblocking does not restore friendship or follows.

Signed-in account. Private preferences are visible only to you.

Open Follow, favorite, mute and block

Church listing and setup

Prepare a listing or request recognition as a church representative.

Open church setup, prepare the requested information and submit through the review flow.

Sign in. Submission does not grant a role or verified status; authorized review is required.

Open Church listing and setup

People and churches

Personal friend invitations

Invite someone to join Godschurches and become friends with you.

Open Menu, then My QR code. Enable your invitation, then copy, share or download it. A signed-out guest sees the signup form first and chooses whether to connect. Verification and adult eligibility still come before connection. Existing members sign in to review; existing friends see their current friendship. Either person can remove the friendship in profile relationship controls.

Verified adult accounts. Codes expire after 30 days and can be replaced or revoked. Friendship grants no extra private or church access.

Open Personal friend invitations

Profiles

Your profile

Introduce yourself with optional details and a clear choice of what to share.

Open Settings, then Profile. Edit your identity, introduction, photos and appearance in the shared editor. Name is required; other profile details are optional. Review optional church directory contacts separately. Unsaved text stays in the editor if a photo upload fails.

Signed-in account. Name and username identify public contributions; other profile details require permitted member access. Directory contacts require a current approved church connection and verified adult eligibility. Sign-in email stays private; street-address sharing is unavailable.

Open Your profile

Profile photos

Choose, crop, replace or remove a personal photo.

Open Edit profile, then Profile photo. Choose a file, adjust the crop and save. Cancel keeps your saved photo. Tap a readable profile photo or cover to enlarge it; Close or Back returns to the page.

Signed-in accounts can manage their own photo. Profile, post and comment photos remain visible only to permitted signed-in readers; initials appear when unavailable.

Open Profile photos

Your photo library

Keep personal photos together without making a post for each upload.

Open your profile, then Photos. Browse All photos, Profile pictures or Cover photos. Add photos with an explicit audience, caption and description. Previous profile pictures and covers stay available from this release onward; choose one to use again without uploading it twice. Also create a post opens your saved photos in the shared composer.

Manage your own library, up to 1,000 photos in pages of 24. New uploads start as Only me. Personal post photos follow their source audience; church-authored photos stay with their church. Removing a current picture, hiding a library entry and deleting a saved image are separate choices.

Open Your photo library

Named photo albums

Organize your saved photos into albums without another upload.

Open your profile, then Photos and Named albums. Create an album, choose saved photos, arrange their order and choose a cover. Save the album with Only me, Members or an approved Church audience. Delete an album to remove its organization while keeping the photos.

Signed-in readers need access to the profile, album and each source photo. Albums never widen source audiences. Keep up to 50 albums with 100 photos each and browse in pages of 24. Remove a photo from its albums before deleting the saved photo.

Open Named photo albums

Sharing and installation

Links and QR codes

Share the website or an eligible public post, church or event with a branded preview.

Open Menu and tap Share Godschurches near the top to see the website QR immediately. Copy, share or download its PNG. Use Share on posts and Share publicly on church or event pages.

Only eligible public pages have public share links. Restricted or unavailable pages use generic branding. Other apps control their own preview caches and crops. A QR code grants no account or church permissions.

Open Links and QR codes

Installation help

Optionally install the app or bookmark its clean home address.

After a new account signs in, Keep God’s Churches handy offers optional installation, bookmarking or Continue in browser. Verification and invitation progress stay separate. Install and Bookmark help remain in Menu after dismissal. Open or copy the clean app page before following your browser's instructions; invitation and verification links are never used as saved app addresses.

Browser and device support vary; the website works without installation.

Open Installation help

Safe updates

Check for a new release while protecting unsent work.

Choose Check for updates. Read What's new, finish saving and refresh only when ready.

A connection is required to check. Reading notes does not update the loaded tab.

Open Safe updates
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