PUBLICATIONS

Church announcements live in a WhatsApp group half the congregation has left.

A feed your members follow, where people answer « I am praying for you » rather than a thumbs up. Every post picks its audience - members only, or the church's public page. With no algorithm deciding who sees what.

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In the Suitewhere the post is written
My son sits his exams this week. Please keep him in your prayers.
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Bethel Church
Brussels·2 h ago
Prayer request
My son sits his exams this week. Please keep him in your prayers.
126 reactions6 comments148
The same post from both sides: written in the Suite, read on Community. The switch decides who sees it.
The reactions

A thumbs up under a prayer request is a clumsy thing.

That detail tells you whether a tool was designed for a church or adapted from a social network. The four reactions are not decoration: they say what people cannot always find words for.

I am praying for you
The answer a prayer request is waiting for. The counter says how many people are carrying it, without each of them having to find words.
Amen, Alleluia
Two ways of receiving news that exist nowhere else. A testimony is not something you « like ».
The anonymous request
A sister can ask for prayer without giving her name. The congregation prays, nobody knows for whom - and that is sometimes the only condition under which she dares to ask.
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The two audiences

The same announcement, among members or in front of everyone.

The roof fund concerns the members. Saturday's food parcels concern the neighbourhood. Two audiences, and it is a setting on the post - not two tools, not two entries.

Members only by default
A post is born internal. Making it public takes a deliberate act, never the other way round.
Public on the church page
It then appears on Community, the page someone from the neighbourhood can find. The switch works both ways, without reposting.
Schedule it, and let it go
Sunday's service announcement is written on Thursday and goes out on Saturday evening. A post can also expire on its own.
What it produces

Knowing what was read, without chasing read receipts.

An announcement in a chat group disappears under the next day's messages. Here it stays, it can be found again, and you know what it reached.

Views, reactions, comments
Three numbers per post. Enough to know whether Saturday's announcement was seen before Saturday.
Comments, or not
Each post decides whether it is open to comments. Some announcements call for no discussion.
Nothing is lost
The feed keeps the history. An announcement from three months ago can be found again, which no chat group allows.

What Publications does, and what it does not

A product page that only says good things is a page nobody believes. Here is the exact limit.

What it does
  • An announcement feed, with text, image, audio, video, poll and verse.
  • Four reactions that mean something in a church, including « praying ».
  • The choice of audience - members only, or the public page.
  • Scheduling, expiry, and the reading figures.
What it does not do
  • This is not a social network. No algorithm ranks the feed: it is chronological, and what is pinned stays on top.
  • It does not replace your WhatsApp group for everyday conversation. It replaces the announcements that get lost in it.
  • Phone notifications depend on the app being installed. A published announcement is not a received announcement.

Sunday's announcement deserves better than a message scrolling away.

Write it once, choose its audience, and find it again in three months.

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