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July 25, 2026 Back to changelog Third-party church apps can now offer the same member-owned Pastoral Care experience used in TheFaithApp mobile.

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What Members Can Do

Partner apps can let a signed-in member:
  • Share, review, edit, and withdraw a confidential care request.
  • Choose care-team or pastoral-only visibility.
  • Choose urgency and a preferred contact method.
  • Review safe status, follow-up, visit, support-plan, and timeline information.
  • Manage consent-based follow-up preferences.
  • Save, pause, edit, or remove private life-moment dates.
  • Create and manage quiet days during sensitive seasons.

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Built Around the Member Boundary

The public API returns only records owned by the signed-in member and their church. Staff notes, tasks, resolution notes, Care Radar review, availability, coverage, rite runsheets, preaching plans, and internal coordination remain inside the protected staff product. Urgent and crisis requests still require the member to acknowledge that Pastoral Care is not an emergency service. Counseling, benevolence, and crisis requests remain restricted to pastoral staff.

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Developer Resources

The new Pastoral Care integration guide explains authentication, screen flow, privacy boundaries, error handling, safe data practices, and all 12 published operations. Each operation also has a generated API reference page with request and response schemas.