> ## Documentation Index
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# Member Directory

> A privacy-first church directory where members find and connect with each other, and staff manage households, approvals, and visibility.

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

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.