Assigning Membership to Groups

Your site group structure mirrors the structure of your organisation.  By giving people membership of groups you can manage an accurate record of contact information for each member, send mailings to them, and complete attendance records if required.  In addition, people will want to have membership of different groups in order to give them access to the content (eg articles, forums, events ...) that exists in each group.

The golden rule of membership:

Membership of a group in the web office automatically implies membership of every group above it in your church group structure.

For example, in the following groups:

membership of the PA team group will automatically make you a member of the Behind the Scenes group, the Events and Gatherings group, and the Church Life group.  The advantage of this approach is that when a new member joins the Musicians group the group manager for Events and Gatherings knows that this person is now involved.

(The only exception to this rule is when the group is independent. In this case being a member of an independent group does not make you a member of any groups above it)

Adding people to groups

To get things started you can add people to sub groups using the Members tab in the Web Office.  Consult the online help for information on how to do this.

My Involvement

People will apply to join new groups using the My Involvement page on the web site.  They will tick the areas (ie groups) that apply to them and these will appear as applications in the Web Office.  Group administrators can then approve these applications through the Web Office.