I love having a group - we've had one for awhile, along with a page, but I love that it's more about community and people sharing their own encouragement, etc - even asking for recommendations among the group and people responding. The only problem with groups is that there are no analytics associated to groups..yet?
Love the Le Canadien shirt! On groups, I assume you are inviting church members to join your group, but can people search for the group, share it, etc. and admins just approve members? I'm just trying to wrap my head around how to grow the groups and how organic reach works for it.
Correct. I would make it searchable and just leave it closed so that way people can request to join, but you have the final say on whether you let them in or not.
So we are a smaller church but have 3 campuses (500 all together), do you think it would be more beneficial to have one group or a group for each campus? They are all different areas/demographics but within 30 mins of each other.
Hi Guys. I am a youth pastor and I have a group page for my youth group. It is my most effective way to communicate with everyone at once for announcements and whatever. My problem is is that I way to deactivate my personal account. It’s just gotten toxic for me right now and I want to deactivate it for the foreseeable future. Is there a way I can still run the group page but have my personal page deactivated? Thank you
If we already have a FB Page for our church, are you saying change our public page to a group page? If so, how do you change your "public page" to a "closed group" ?
Nope! Don't change your page to a group (I don't believe this is possible anyway). A group is a different entity entirely within Facebook. It would be in addition to your existing page. You'll want both.
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I love having a group - we've had one for awhile, along with a page, but I love that it's more about community and people sharing their own encouragement, etc - even asking for recommendations among the group and people responding. The only problem with groups is that there are no analytics associated to groups..yet?
With how much Facebook is investing into Groups, I'd be shocked if advanced analytics weren't on the way.
Love the Le Canadien shirt! On groups, I assume you are inviting church members to join your group, but can people search for the group, share it, etc. and admins just approve members? I'm just trying to wrap my head around how to grow the groups and how organic reach works for it.
Correct. I would make it searchable and just leave it closed so that way people can request to join, but you have the final say on whether you let them in or not.
So we are a smaller church but have 3 campuses (500 all together), do you think it would be more beneficial to have one group or a group for each campus? They are all different areas/demographics but within 30 mins of each other.
Spencer Parish Yeah. Based on that information three groups sounds best!
Hi Guys. I am a youth pastor and I have a group page for my youth group. It is my most effective way to communicate with everyone at once for announcements and whatever. My problem is is that I way to deactivate my personal account. It’s just gotten toxic for me right now and I want to deactivate it for the foreseeable future. Is there a way I can still run the group page but have my personal page deactivated? Thank you
To be able to host and post to a Facebook Group you would need to have a personal account.
If we already have a FB Page for our church, are you saying change our public page to a group page? If so, how do you change your "public page" to a "closed group" ?
Nope! Don't change your page to a group (I don't believe this is possible anyway). A group is a different entity entirely within Facebook. It would be in addition to your existing page. You'll want both.
our church has neither a FB page nor group. Which should we create? We're looking to live stream and evangelize to non-members
BDAPink Both!