Group Profile Categories in Churchteams
Group Categories are used to create Profiles for your Groups. These Profiles allow you to quickly and easily find or report on the information you need.
This tutorial will explain the Group Profile Categories and best practices for using them. As you use Churchteams, you will use these categories as filters when finding a group or people in particular group categories.
To edit the Profile Category settings, navigate to Groups & Events > Settings > Group Profiles.
- Ministry: Think of organizing your groups into Ministry areas or deprtments. This is how you will use these settings and/or filters later when running reports. This is not where you will put your individual groups or group names, but rather a category heading or Ministry name for a group of groups, ie. Children's Ministry.
If needed, add a new Ministry type by clicking the blue “Add Response” button.
Delete Ministry types you will not use by clicking the red “x.” You should check first to make sure there are no groups currently using this type before deleting that type, if you have been using Churchteams for a while. (Check this by navigating to Groups & Events > Browse, then use the search filters at the top of the page to filter to the Ministry type you consider deleting.)
As you create Groups, you should always assign each of them a Ministry category. This will help you later on as you run reports or do searches and want to filter to only certain Ministry areas, such as Adult Bible Study or Children’s Ministry.
- Lifestage: This is another category for your groups that will help you filter to a more granular level. Later, as you create Groups, you will assign each a Lifestage type.
If needed, add new Lifestage types by clicking the blue “Add Response” button.
- Gender Mix: The last of our default Categories for groups. As with the Ministry type and Lifestage, when creating a Group, you will assign each group a Gender Mix. This category is particularly helpful if you are using our Website Integration to post groups onto your website and want people to be able to filter to groups that are specific to one gender or another.
You can add other Categories if you'd like to have one that you do not see listed. To add a Profile Category, click the "add Category" button.
Once each area has been reviewed and/or edited, click Save. The next step if you are new to Churchteams and working through the setup is to review and edit the People Attributes, found under People > Settings > People Attributes. See 1.03 Setting Step 3 in Churchteams: People Attributes for guidance.