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# Update Pastoral Care Preferences

> Updates one or more member-controlled consent and contact settings. Reminder and Care Radar consent are disabled by default. Disabling a consent also closes related pending follow-up signals.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json put /v1/care-life-moments/preferences
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: TheFaithApp Partner API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    The v1 API for third-party apps that sign in TheFaithApp members and access
    church-scoped content and workflows.
  contact:
    name: TheFaithApp Support
    email: support@thefaithapp.com
servers:
  - url: https://api.thefaithapp.com
    description: Production
security:
  - apiKeyAuth: []
    bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Hosted Auth
    description: Sign members in through the hosted TheFaithApp authentication flow.
  - name: Core Experience
    description: Load member context and the personalized home experience.
  - name: Content
    description: >-
      Read sermons, media, YouTube videos, devotionals, and streaming
      configuration.
  - name: Engagement
    description: Manage member favorites and devotional bookmarks.
  - name: Churches
    description: Read church profiles, public directory records, and branch information.
  - name: Events & Volunteers
    description: >-
      Browse events and volunteer opportunities, then manage registrations and
      commitments.
  - name: Notifications & Bulletins
    description: Read church and member notifications and published bulletins.
  - name: Prayer
    description: Submit a prayer request for the authenticated member.
  - name: Pastoral Care
    description: >-
      Manage the authenticated member’s confidential care requests,
      consent-based follow-up preferences, private life moments, and quiet days.
  - name: Member Connections
    description: Manage the member’s campus and ministry connections.
  - name: Community Groups
    description: >-
      Discover groups and manage membership, feeds, attendance, study guides,
      and leader notes.
  - name: Community Preferences & Research
    description: >-
      Manage community preferences, summaries, and consent-based research
      participation.
  - name: Resource Sharing
    description: Offer shared resources and manage member loan requests and transitions.
  - name: Mutual Aid
    description: >-
      Manage needs and offers, private responses, safety reports, and member
      activity.
  - name: Analytics
    description: Record product analytics events and retrieve aggregate metrics.
  - name: Notification Analytics
    description: Record and summarize notification delivery, open, and click events.
paths:
  /v1/care-life-moments/preferences:
    put:
      tags:
        - Pastoral Care
      summary: Update Pastoral Care Preferences
      description: >-
        Updates one or more member-controlled consent and contact settings.
        Reminder and Care Radar consent are disabled by default. Disabling a
        consent also closes related pending follow-up signals.
      operationId: putCareLifeMomentsPreferences
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CarePreferenceInput'
            example:
              reminders_enabled: true
              grief_follow_up_enabled: true
              hard_anniversary_follow_up_enabled: true
              care_radar_enabled: false
              group_participation_follow_up_enabled: false
              contact_preference: text
              acknowledgment_style: ask_first
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Pastoral Care preferences were updated.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CarePreferenceResponse'
              example:
                status: Success
                message: Your pastoral care preferences were updated.
                data:
                  preferences:
                    reminders_enabled: true
                    birthday_follow_up_enabled: false
                    grief_follow_up_enabled: true
                    illness_follow_up_enabled: false
                    crisis_follow_up_enabled: false
                    hard_anniversary_follow_up_enabled: true
                    care_radar_enabled: false
                    group_participation_follow_up_enabled: false
                    contact_preference: text
                    acknowledgment_style: ask_first
                    consented_at: '2026-07-25T09:30:00.000000Z'
                    care_radar_consented_at: null
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
components:
  schemas:
    CarePreferenceInput:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
      properties:
        reminders_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Enable or disable all life-moment reminders.
        birthday_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Enable or disable birthday follow-up.
        grief_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Enable or disable grief follow-up.
        illness_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Enable or disable illness follow-up.
        crisis_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Enable or disable crisis follow-up.
        hard_anniversary_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Enable or disable hard-anniversary follow-up.
        care_radar_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Enable or disable Care Radar consent.
        group_participation_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Enable or disable Community Group participation follow-up consent.
        contact_preference:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/CareContactPreference'
        acknowledgment_style:
          type: string
          description: Preferred acknowledgment style.
          enum:
            - gentle
            - ask_first
            - no_contact
    CarePreferenceResponse:
      type: object
      required:
        - status
        - data
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          description: Request result.
          example: Success
        message:
          type: string
          description: Member-facing result message.
        data:
          type: object
          required:
            - preferences
          properties:
            preferences:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CarePreference'
    CareContactPreference:
      type: string
      description: How the member prefers to be contacted.
      enum:
        - in_app
        - phone
        - text
        - email
      example: phone
    CarePreference:
      type: object
      required:
        - reminders_enabled
        - birthday_follow_up_enabled
        - grief_follow_up_enabled
        - illness_follow_up_enabled
        - crisis_follow_up_enabled
        - hard_anniversary_follow_up_enabled
        - care_radar_enabled
        - group_participation_follow_up_enabled
        - contact_preference
        - acknowledgment_style
      properties:
        reminders_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Master consent for life-moment follow-up reminders.
        birthday_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Allow birthday follow-up.
        grief_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Allow grief-anniversary follow-up.
        illness_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Allow illness check-ins.
        crisis_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Allow crisis follow-up.
        hard_anniversary_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Allow hard-anniversary follow-up.
        care_radar_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Allow consent-backed Care Radar participation.
        group_participation_follow_up_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: >-
            Allow Community Group participation follow-up when Care Radar is
            also enabled.
        contact_preference:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/CareContactPreference'
        acknowledgment_style:
          type: string
          description: Preferred acknowledgment style.
          enum:
            - gentle
            - ask_first
            - no_contact
          example: ask_first
        consented_at:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: When reminder consent was recorded.
          format: date-time
        care_radar_consented_at:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: When Care Radar consent was recorded.
          format: date-time
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      description: >-
        Error response. Validation failures also include an `errors` object
        keyed by field name.
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          example: Error
        message:
          type: string
          example: The request could not be completed.
        error:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          example: null
        error_message:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          example: null
        errors:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: The request is not valid for the current resource state.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    Unauthorized:
      description: >-
        The API key or member bearer token is missing, invalid, expired, or
        belongs to another church.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    Forbidden:
      description: The member is authenticated but cannot perform this action.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    NotFound:
      description: The requested resource was not found in the authenticated church.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    ValidationError:
      description: One or more request fields failed validation.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    ServerError:
      description: >-
        The request could not be completed because of an unexpected server
        error.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-Key
      description: >-
        Client API key copied from Developer Access in the TheFaithApp
        dashboard.
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: Sanctum
      description: Member access token returned by `POST /v1/auth/token`.

````