Post a church announcement

Announcements show on members’ home page under Church announcements. You can post one right away or schedule it for later. Saving publishes it, so there are no drafts.

Before you start

• You need to be the secretary (or whatever your church calls the office role), the leadership team, or the webmaster.
• Only approved members and regular attendees can see announcements. They are not on the public website.

Steps

1. Open Administration → Church announcements.
2. Tap New announcement.
3. If you like, pick a template from Choose a starting template, such as Event or sign-up or Deadline reminder. It fills the form with prompts. Delete any prompts you don’t use.
4. Write the Title and Details. Leave a blank line between paragraphs. Start a line with “- “ to make a bullet point.
5. Set Starts. Leave it as now to post right away, or pick a later date and time to schedule it.
6. Set Ends if it should come down at a certain time. If you leave it blank, it ends on its own 30 days after it starts.
7. Open Preview member appearance to see how it will look.
8. Tap Review announcement, check it, then tap Confirm publication.

All times use your church’s time zone.

Keep the list tidy

• Each announcement shows a status: Live, Scheduled or Ended. Use the status list and search box to find one.
• Tap Edit announcement to change it.
• Tap End / hide announcement, then Confirm end / hide, to take it down now. It stays in your list, and you can edit it to show it again later.

You can also add a bulletin announcement from Administration → Sunday. See Put this Sunday together.

Good to know

• No emails or texts are sent. To email members, see Email members.
• Members who turned on phone alerts get a short notice with the title when it starts. See Phone alerts.
• An announcement doesn’t add anything to the calendar. For dated events, see Calendar events.

If something goes wrong

• “Enter a title of 1–160 characters.” Add a title, or make it shorter.
• “The end must be after the start.” Fix the Ends date, or leave it blank.
• “This announcement or your access changed.” Someone else may have edited it. Tap Reload announcements and try again.
• Members can’t see it yet. Check its status. If it says Scheduled, it will show at its start time. See Sunday troubleshooting.