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Welcome to our Church App.  We are excited to share this new tool with you to help you stay connected to news and information about Community Foursquare Chapel. The app has a number of useful and exciting features. Take a few minutes to explore the app to get the most out of it. Go ahead and push buttons – you can’t break anything. To access the following features, tap the 3 lines on the top right of the app screen.

To get the most out of our Church APP, you will need to log in. You should have received an email from Ottawa Foursquare with a password and login instructions. If you do not have that, please contact Pastor Steve.

1. Current News is where you will find out any need-to-know info. Newest items are on top. Click a topic to read the article.
2. Giving: Support CFC securely online with tithes or special giving. Forgot the checkbook? No Cash, you can still support the ministry anytime, day or night.
3. Church Calendar: The Calendar lists all events in the current week. To look as far into the future as you wish, repeatedly click the green “Next-7-days”  Click to read an item. If you use a calendar on your device, you can click to download the event to your personal calendar.
4. Prayer Requests: You can request prayer or read others’ requests.
5. My Prayer is a personal prayer list combined with some daily suggested prayers for the church. You can create your own prayer list for each day of the week. No one else can see your personal prayer list.  Use this to stay on track with your prayer needs.
6. Acts is a very unique program for you. The Acts feature helps you plan and act on your personal outreach and evangelism efforts. Noone else can see your entries here; they are private and personal. There are three sections. All three allow you to make a list of people at different levels of evangelism. This is designed to help your efforts to reach them. The first is SHARE LIFE. In this section, you will list people that you want to engage with as friends to develop relationships to share the gospel in the future. In the SHARE FAITH section, you will list people that you want to actively share your faith and testimony with. The final section is SHARE JESUS. This list is for people you are actively praying for an opportunity to lead to faith in Christ.
7. Chat: This section allows text-based conversations between users. Once they are set up, users can be assigned to specific groups, and chats are limited to authorized users in each chat room. Groups might include the Church Council, specific home groups, Women’s or Men’s groups, etc. It is not meant to be exclusive, but to limit conversations to those specifically involved, so you do not get stuff you are not interested in.
8. Devotional Messages is a list of articles on various subjects. The newest ones will be on top.
9. Sermon Notes hosts the notes for the pastor’s messages. Use them to review the messages or as a basis for self-study.
10. Free eBooks and Articles links a variety of resources from Pastor Steve and others you can read onlineor download for free.
11. Video Teaching links to video messages – mostly Pastor Steve’s Sunday teachings.
12. Vision and Mission, Our Leadership, and Our Values are pages that remind you of the important elements of our church, our leaders, and our purpose.
13. We will add other content as it is appropriate.
14. Our Values explain the philosophy and purpose of our church and why we do the things the way we do.
15. How to use the APP if you are reading this, you are HERE.
16. Account does three things. 1. It displays the Church Directory information for your household that is visible on the App. 2. It allows you to customize the information that is shown on the App about you and your family (e.g. birthdays, anniversaries, address, phone, etc.). REMEMBER, this serves as the Church Directory and ONLY people with verified (read that, authorized by the church) can see this information. It works the same way the paper directly works, but with more flexibility and immediate access.) You always control the information that is shown. 3. It allows you to change the information at will.
17. Notification settings allow you to select what messages you want to receive through the app. Turn them all on for the best app experience.
18. Reset Church Do Not use this!! This link allows you to change to a different church,, which case you don’t get the info from our church.
19. Address is a directory of church members and attendees who have allowed their contact info to be displayed within the App. Two things to note: 1. You control what people can see by logging into your account. 2. ONLY those people who have a verified account and are logged in can see your info.
20. Toilet Messaging is an unused feature to call parents to the nursery.
21. Messages are the official text messages you get from the church.
22. Spiritual Gifts allows you to take a Spiritual Gift Assessment Test and discover what spiritual gifts you might have. It also records your likely giftings on your profile in the backend of the Church Management software.
23. Daily Bible is a planned set of scriptures on specific topics you can read each day for aspecific period of time. These are planned readings that will help you examine a topic daily for a while. They will change after each reading is complete.

If you have any questions or need help using the app, please contact Pastor Steve.