Create Care Request
Shares a confidential Pastoral Care request for the authenticated member. Counseling, benevolence, and crisis requests are restricted to pastoral staff. Urgent or crisis requests require emergency_acknowledged: true because this workflow is not an emergency service.
Authorizations
Client API key copied from Developer Access in the TheFaithApp dashboard.
Member access token returned by POST /v1/auth/token.
Body
Type of pastoral care requested.
general_care, hospital_visit, home_visit, new_baby_support, counseling, benevolence, grief_support, illness_support, crisis_support, pastoral_follow_up, wedding_preparation, baby_dedication, funeral_support, relocation_support, pastoral_recommendation "hospital_visit"
Authorized staff audience for the request.
care_team, pastoral_only "care_team"
Requested follow-up speed.
standard, soon, urgent "soon"
Confidential details for the authorized care team.
10 - 5000How the member prefers to be contacted.
in_app, phone, text, email "phone"
Confirms that the church care team may contact the member.
Optional phone number or email address. When omitted, the matching member profile value is used.
255Required for urgent or crisis requests. Confirms that Pastoral Care is not an emergency service.