This tutorial will explain the Group Profile categories and best practices for using them. The Group Profiles are really just categories for your groups. As you use Churchteams, you will use these as filters when finding a group or filtering to people in particular group types.
To edit the Profile settings, navigate to Groups & Events > Settings > Profile Questions.
- Ministry: Think of organizing your groups into Ministry areas. This is how you will use these settings. This is not where you will put your individual groups or group names, but rather a category heading or Ministry name for your 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 will 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 Profile (or category) for groups. Later, when creating a Group, you will assign each group a Lifestage type.
If needed, add new Lifestage types by clicking the blue “Add Response” button.
- Gender Mix: The last of our Default Profiles (or category) 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 Profile questions/categories if you'd like to have one that you do not see listed. To add a Profile, click the 
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 Member Attributes, found under People > Settings > People Attributes. See 1.03 Setting Step 3 in Churchteams: People Attributes for guidance.