Ministries & Ministry Members
A Ministry is a standing team — Worship, Kids, Ushers, Tech, and so on. Ministries hold the group identity; Ministry Members and Ministry Activities hang off a ministry.
Ministries
Section titled “Ministries”Create a ministry with a name, a Leader, and optional age band (Min age /
Max age). The leader picker, if your church has mapped the ministry_leader tag role
(see Tags & Tag Roles), only offers members carrying that tag; otherwise everyone
is offered.
The age band is used by Kids Check-in to narrow who can be checked into that ministry’s sessions — for example, a “Kids Ministry” banded 0–12 won’t offer a 15-year-old, even though they’re still a minor; that teenager would show up correctly under a “Youth Ministry” banded 13–17. Leave both blank for a ministry with no age restriction (the default). See Attendance & Check-in for how this plays out at check-in time.
On your website. A ministry’s Description on the website and Photo on the website turn its entry on your Church Website into a card. Your internal notes are never shown.
Ministry Activities
Section titled “Ministry Activities”A ministry’s recurring or one-time meetings/services (e.g. “Sunday Worship Service, weekly at 10am”). One activity row covers the whole recurring series — there isn’t a separate row per week. Activities are what Attendance, Rotas and the Calendar all schedule against.
A weekly activity marked Show on the website appears under Service times on your Church Website (title, day, time and the location’s name), and the soonest one is shown at the top as “Next”. Leave it unticked for internal meetings.
Ministry Members
Section titled “Ministry Members”Pick a ministry from the dropdown, and manage who’s on it — add a member with a role (leader, co-leader, volunteer), change someone’s role from the dropdown next to their name, or remove them. Removing takes them off the roster immediately.
Add several at once adds everyone with a tag, or everyone in a small group, with the role you choose. Only active members who aren’t on the team yet are added.
This roster is what powers Attendance’s auto-prefilled roster for a ministry activity — add someone here first, and they’ll already be listed when you go to take attendance for that ministry’s next gathering.
Roadmap
Section titled “Roadmap”Viewing members who were removed.