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  • Intro to Church Directory
  • Getting Started
    • 🔥Welcome to Church Directory
      • How to Launch Church Directory
      • Directory Data Import
      • Welcome Emails
  • Core Concepts
    • 👤Users
      • Login Methods
      • Account Membership
      • Family Units
      • Family Emails
      • Church Offices
    • 👥Groups
      • Group Posts
      • Texting (SMS)
      • E-mailing
        • Email Costs
      • Voice Calls
      • Numbers for SMS & Voice Calls
      • Messaging Policies
        • Communication Use Policy
        • SMS message length limits
    • 🔐Roles
  • admin
    • Groups
      • Getting Started with Groups
      • Enabling Group Posts
    • People
      • Add a Member
      • Change the Head of Household
    • Prayer List
      • Add a Prayer Request
      • Member Prayer Submissions
    • Calendars
      • Getting Started with Calendars
      • Add a Calendar Event
      • Add a Repeating Calendar Event
  • FAQs
    • Data Import
    • Email Delivery
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  1. Getting Started
  2. Welcome to Church Directory

How to Launch Church Directory

Church Directory offers a few options for helping expedite getting your members aware and logged in.

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Data Setup

We highly recommend this order of things for getting setup:

  1. Import data -- Get all members' basic info (name, birthdate), and at least emails, added to Lightpost.

  2. Begin adding prayers to the Prayer List feature.

  3. Put some events on the Calendar.

  4. Enable Group Posts for some smaller groups. This is a great way to get communication flowing among the congregation.

Member Announcement

Once you have those things going, and you're ready to get members logged in, you should:

  1. First announce to the congregation that Church Directory is available!

  2. Send "Welcome Emails" to everyone with an email address in Church Directory here:

We're here to help however we can, answer questions, and further improve and grow Church Directory! 🙂

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https://admin.church.directory/account/settings/welcome-emails