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The Member Directory helps people in your church find and connect with one another, while giving every member control over what they share.

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For members

From the mobile app, members can:
  • Browse and search the church directory by name.
  • Open a member’s profile to see what that person has chosen to share — their groups, and any contact details, location, birthday, or household they’ve made visible.
  • View a household to see the family together.
  • See upcoming birthdays — a “Birthdays this week” view highlights celebrations among visible members.
  • Use the directory offline — the last directory list a member loaded is shown even without a connection, with a clear offline indicator until it refreshes.
  • Control their own privacy from the directory’s privacy screen:
    • A master “Show me in the directory” switch.
    • Whole-profile visibility: everyone in the church, leaders only, or hidden.
    • Per-field visibility for email, phone, address, birthday, and household.
  • Update their own profile from the edit-profile screen:
    • Set a profile photo by choosing an image from their library or taking a new one.
    • See their household (read-only — households are managed by staff).
    • When the church requires approval for sensitive changes, get a clear “submitted for approval” confirmation listing the fields awaiting staff review, while non-sensitive changes save immediately.
Contact details are private by default. A field only appears to others once the member (or the church default) makes it visible. The member’s privacy controls also live on the profile page, so they’re easy to find.

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For staff and admins

From the web dashboard, under Members, staff can:
  • Directory Settings — turn the directory on or off, choose default field visibility, show or hide member photos, and decide whether to include children.
  • Households — create households and add members by searching for them by name or email (members already in the household are filtered out), and set each member’s role, so families appear together.
  • Change Requests — review and approve or reject sensitive profile edits (name, contact, birth date) when approval is required. This is opt-in per church.
  • Leaders — designate directory leaders, who can see “leaders only” fields.
  • Birthday & anniversary reminders — opt in to a daily digest of today’s birthdays and anniversaries, pushed to directory leaders.

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Privacy and safety

  • Children are excluded from the member-facing directory by default.
  • Privacy is enforced for every request — a member only ever receives the fields they’re permitted to see.
  • Members of one church can never see members of another church.

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Current product notes

  • The member-facing directory, household view, and privacy controls live in the mobile app.
  • Directory settings, household management, the change-request approval queue, and leader designation live in the web dashboard under Members.