Small Groups
Small Groups (also called cells) get their own purpose-built screen: a card-grid list, a detail page with a leader/schedule sidebar, a members panel, a meeting log, and group multiplication.
Creating a group
Section titled “Creating a group”New group — name, status, type, Leader, Supervisor, meeting day/time, and either a Host (a member whose home hosts the meeting) or a plain address.
- Picking a Host automatically fills the group’s address from that member’s own home address, so you don’t have to retype it — you can still override it by typing your own address instead.
- The Leader and Supervisor pickers, if your church has set them up under Tags & Tag Roles, only show members carrying the matching tag (e.g. only members tagged “Small Group Leader” appear as leader candidates). If your church hasn’t set that up, everyone is offered.
On your website. Tick Show in the group finder on our website and write a short Public description (who it’s for, roughly where it meets) to list the group on your Church Website. Visitors see the name, day, time and that description — never the host, address or notes — and can tap I’m interested, which brings them in as a new Visitor with the group noted.
The detail page
Section titled “The detail page”- Sidebar — leader, supervisor, schedule, address, host, notes, and a Multiplication card. Use Multiply this group when a cell grows and splits into two — it opens the create form pre-seeded with a name like “Youth Group II” and links the new group back to its parent, so you can trace a cell’s lineage over time.
- Members panel — add someone with a role (leader, co-leader, member) or remove them. Removing deletes the membership record outright, not just marks it inactive.
- Meetings panel — log a meeting with date, attendee count, first-timer count, offering, topic and notes (prayer requests, follow-ups, how it went). Who came lists the group’s members with a checkbox each: tick who was there (or Mark all present) and HolyCRM saves each person’s attendance, which also shows in Attendance. Leave Attendees blank and it’s filled in with the number you ticked. The log shows each meeting’s notes and who was present.
- Edit on a logged meeting loads it back into the form, including who came, so you can correct it and Save.
Tags and the family tree
Section titled “Tags and the family tree”- Groups can have tags, picked in the group’s form like on a member. The list has a Tags filter, and Tag… tags every group the list shows.
- Family tree (next to Cards above the list) shows each group under the group it multiplied from, so you can see a cell’s whole lineage at a glance. Click any group to open it.
Roadmap
Section titled “Roadmap”Making a member’s “leader” role in the group’s members panel the group’s main Leader automatically (set the Leader in the group’s form).