Posts enable your church community to exchange information about community topics at any time and from anywhere. This means you know more about each other and makes it easier for people in your congregation to find out more and get involved. They also open up another way to reach those who are not yet part of your congregation. They are versatile and can be used to disseminate information quickly and efficiently and bring the life of your community closer to the people. In addition to reading or viewing posts, people in your congregation can interact with each other in different ways.

In principle, posts can be created in any group. However, you can also deactivate posts for all groups of a certain group type or for individual groups.

Posts offer your church completely new possibilities in ChurchTools, which may also require new groups. Get inspired and create new groups to fully utilize the potential of posts for your church: Announcements, Recommendations, Search/Offer, Prayer Requests, …

To make it easier to understand the difference between the new Posts module and the existing Chat, we have written a short article that compares the differences and use cases of these two functions: How are posts different from chat?