Introduction to Groups for LeadersUpdated on: Planning Center Groups is an online application that will help you manage your members, plan events, take attendance, and share resources. As a Group Leader, you can do most of your group management from Church Center, but there are some leader tasks that you’ll need to do from the Admin side of Groups.
To manage your group from Church Center, you'll need to be logged into the Church Center web or app.
You can add members to your group from the Members tab.
When the group member requests to join, review the request to add them as a member.
To create an event in Church Center web or app, log into Church Center, go to the group's Events tab, and select the Actions button in the app or the New button on the web.
Select an event to edit it.
You can take attendance for a group event from Church Center web or app starting from 10 minutes before the event begins.
If attendance isn’t something you’re interested in tracking, an Administrator can disable the reminders on the Settings tab.
If you want to add visitors to the attendance list, you can do that from Groups admin if your group is set up to allow leaders to add members.
You can communicate with your group members using Group Messaging in the Church Center web or app.
First, make sure that messaging is enabled for your group and decide whether members can create new messages or only leaders.
If you don't see the Group Messaging section in Settings, you can ask your Admin to give you permissions to enable messaging for your group.
You can then start discussions or post announcements for your group members Church Center.
Planning Center Groups is an online application that will help you manage your members, plan events, take attendance, and share resources. As a Group Leader, you can do most of your group management from Church Center, but there are some leader tasks that you’ll need to do from the Admin side of Groups.
To manage your group from Church Center, you'll need to be logged into the Church Center web or app.
You can add members to your group from the Members tab.
When the group member requests to join, review the request to add them as a member.
To create an event in Church Center web or app, log into Church Center, go to the group's Events tab, and select the Actions button in the app or the New button on the web.
Select an event to edit it.
You can take attendance for a group event from Church Center web or app starting from 10 minutes before the event begins.
If attendance isn’t something you’re interested in tracking, an Administrator can disable the reminders on the Settings tab.
If you want to add visitors to the attendance list, you can do that from Groups admin if your group is set up to allow leaders to add members.
You can communicate with your group members using Group Messaging in the Church Center web or app.
First, make sure that messaging is enabled for your group and decide whether members can create new messages or only leaders.
If you don't see the Group Messaging section in Settings, you can ask your Admin to give you permissions to enable messaging for your group.
You can then start discussions or post announcements for your group members Church Center.