You can create groups for almost anyone – your church, parachurch organization, leadership team, or Sunday school class, for example – and easily connect with those in your group by scheduling events, sharing posts, making prayer requests, sending newsletters, discussing your Bible reading, and much more.
To get started, navigate to Faithlife.com and Sign in. If you don’t yet have a free account, you can create one in a few seconds by clicking Create an account.
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Create Your Group
Once you’re signed in, follow these steps:
1. Click 
in the Groups panel in the left-hand sidebar. 
2. Choose a group type.
Faithlife is perfect for any group, like a church, club, or small group. If you don’t see your specific group type, you can choose “General.” Choose a group type and select Next.
Did you know? Your group can hold multiple subgroups for things like committees, leadership teams, or smaller classes. Learn how to create a subgroup here.
3. Provide essential group info.
Add a unique Group Name. No other groups can share your exact name. Add a Location, which makes your group more discoverable for others in your area. Your Privacy Level changes how discoverable you are on Faithlife.com. Click Next.
- Public: Anyone can find and follow the group. You must be invited to become a member.
- Private: Anyone can find the group and ask to join.
- Secret: New members must be invited. Nobody outside the group can see it.
4. Add additional group details.
Finally, provide additional group details. The more details you provide, the easier it will be for your people to find your group on Faithlife.com.
- Group URL: This is your group’s unique url (what follows faithlife.com/). To customize your group url, select the text in the input box and insert your own text (spaces not allowed).
- Tagline: This provides a short description of the group that will appear under the group’s name on the group’s homepage (and on your Faithlife Site’s homepage).
- Nickname: This is the shortened name or abbreviation for the group that displays for members of your group.
- Group Email: Your group’s key contact’s email address (e.g., the official church email address).
- Group Phone: Your group’s key contact’s phone (e.g., the official church phone number).
- About: Your group’s About page will display the description you provide.
5. Finalize group creation.
When you’re finished, click Done. Your Faithlife group’s Activity feed will open.
In the future, you can access any group you’ve created or joined by navigating to Faithlife.com and selecting the group from the Groups panel in the left hand sidebar.
Note: You can also access your Faithlife group from Faithlife’s app on your iOS or Android device.
Navigate Your Group
There are four basic areas in your group:
- Header: The top portion of the page holds basic group information and actions.
- Navigation: The left-hand sidebar is where you navigate your group.
- Content: The middle area holds the main content you’re currently viewing.
- Sidebar: The right-hand panel shows regularly occurring group activity, like reading plans, which you can customize in your Activity Feed sidebar settings.
1. Header
Your group header houses basic group information like the group’s name, profile and header images, settings, and invite button.
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Profile and Header Images: Click the camera icon
to open your group’s file vault and upload an image. Click Upload, add an image from your computer, and choose Insert.
Recommended group image sizes:
- Group profile image: 1024 x 1024px
- Group header image: 2560px x 500px
- Invite: Invite people to connect with your Faithlife group as members, followers, admins, or mods. You can send an invitation to individuals, other groups, or email addresses, or even import a CSV file with relevant contact information.
- More Actions Menu: In the More Actions Menu, you can navigate to the group settings, change your role within the group (if applicable), or leave the group.
2. Navigation
Depending on your role in your group, this panel will contain the Community, Admin, Teams, and/or Groups navigation menus.
Community Navigation Menu
The Community Navigation Menu is visible to everyone in your group. Depending on your permission settings, some of the options in this menu will also be visible to the public.
- Activity: Activity is the group’s activity news feed, which acts as the homepage for your group. You can view posts, prayers, and articles in this feed.
- Group Members: This section holds all members of your Faithlife group. Learn how to invite, remove, and manage members.
- Group Chat: Easily communicate with your entire group via short, text-like messages. Any messages sent from here will be visible to the entire group. You can also send a private message to someone in your group or to a group of people from Faithlife messages. By default, whenever you receive a message, you’ll receive an email. If you’re online, a badge icon will indicate you have a new message. Learn more about Faithlife messages.
- Content: The Content folder contains many helpful tools: Sermons (Faithlife’s audio archiving service), Files, Photos, and Videos.
- Bible Study: The Bible Study folder expands to reveal two helpful tools for studying the Bible together: Logos Documents and Community Notes.
- About: A basic informational page for your group, including current administrators of the group. You can update the About content from your group's settings.
- Notification Preferences: Adjust what notifications you receive from your group.
Admin Menu
If you are an admin of your group, the Admin Menu will display under the Community Navigation Menu. In the Admin Menu, you can adjust the following settings:
- Group Settings: Adjust basic group information, privacy and safety settings, contact information, and about information.
- Activity Feed Sidebar: Choose what appears in the group’s right hand Activity Feed Sidebar by clicking and dragging items from “Widget List” to “Active.”
- Subscriptions: Use this page to manage the subscriptions associated with your group.
- Licenses: View any licenses owned by your group.
- Group Features and Permissions: Manage who (admins, moderators, members, followers, or the public) can do what (view the activity feed, view group files, create documents, remove prayer lists, etc.) within your group.
Teams Menu
Proclaim Teams have oversight of specific tasks or ministries in your organization, like presentation or worship. Membership in some teams grants control over specific areas of your group. Add a new team by selecting Manage Teams and selecting a team type at the bottom of the page.
Groups Menu
Subgroups help smaller, specialized groups, like committees or small groups, connect. If you have subgroups, navigation panels will display on the left below the admin panel. Add a subgroup by clicking the gray plus icon in the top right corner of the menu panel.
3. Content
The middle section of your group displays the primary content of the page you’re viewing. Anyone with permission can add a post, media item, prayer, or article. You can also interact with other posts to connect with, encourage, and care for the others in your group.
4. Sidebar
The right side of your group home page includes a fully customizable sidebar. You can add a variety of information, including group reading plans and group prayer lists.
You can adjust what displays in the sidebar from the Admin Menu panel (Settings > Activity Feed Sidebar). To add a widget to your sidebar, drag it from the left column (Widget list) to the middle column (Active). A live preview shows your changes in real-time.