Church Center App 4+

We love church center, but hate the new messaging format. I love the old format that had messages individualized to groups. This format is so frustrating. At first glance, I don’t know what group the message is even in and then you guys took away the ability to mute comments after the first post was originally made and I am in so many different groups. In a world where we’re constantly bombarded, it was nice to not receive church center notifications for every little thing all day every day. As a group leader, I also miss being able to give a title and type the message prior to “starting” a chat. Please change it back!

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Church Center App is an app I would recommend to many of my friends who I like and want saved. It’s clean cut, easy to navigate, and has all my favorite Bible stuff in one place. Finding my home church was a breeze. I simply allowed the government to track me and listen to all my conversations, and it knew what church I attended instantly. Before Church Center App, my faith was just in my head, but now with its in my hands too. For so long I’ve wanted a passive aggressive way to let people know how much better I am than them. Now with Church Center App, that’s easier than ever. My favorite setting in the Church Center App is its notifications. I often times when at work meetings, dinner parties, or nephews baseball games like to make sure my phone volume is turned all the way up and if possible, have my phone face up on a table for all to see. Church Center App with its bright and easy to read displays will alert me and more importantly all those around me numerous religious based selfless deeds that are coming up in my life. My top notification settings include: daily tithing, men’s group, kids group, women’s group, moms expecting group, international evangelism group, and PhD nuance ancient greek theologian group. Church Center App has truly changed my life and how those around me view me. I would 10/10 highly recommend. Not to be confused with Church App. Never ever download Church App. It’s demonic.

Hi Ryan - thank you for such a kind review with such detail! I've passed this along to the team so that they can see that it's making an impact! We're glad to hear it!

Who is this app actually for? I think it’s trying to be too many things to too many people. The navigation is terrible and there are so many features that I rarely or almost never need, yet they are always in my face. The “Home” tab for example, is completely useless. The donations tab is also never helpful since I use automatic recurring donations to my church. As a small group leader/member I want to access those features immediately almost every time I open the app, but have to tap multiple times to get to them. There are also poor assumptions built-in to the design of the small group features. The calendar events seem like a good idea at first glance, but my group seldom engages with them. My group offers hybrid, but there’s no options for RSVPing to an event as a virtual or in-person attendee. We used to use GroupMe, which had the ability to create custom polls/surveys which worked really well for us to get RSVPs and boost engagement.

Hi Marcus - thanks for sharing that feedback with us. Your organization is able to customize their navigation and home page, so mentioning some of this to them would be a good first step for getting to your Groups page quicker. As far as the dashboard for Groups, we love to hear about improvement requests, so send those to support@planningcenter.com! Thank you!