Ministry
Volunteers and serving
The roster is who serves. Invite them, put them on a gathering, and let them accept from email or the app.
/staff/serving/serving/schedule/settings?panel=serving
Volunteers is the ministry roster. Add people, put them on departments, and invite them to Churchism so they can see their dates.
Serving shows each person their own scheduled dates. They can accept or decline (unless your church starts everyone as accepted). They can add blackouts for dates they cannot serve.
Team leads schedule their department. Pastor, admin, and anyone with master scheduling can open the Sunday all-teams board and schedule across departments.
When you assign someone, they are emailed an invitation. Invitations always send. Settings → Serving controls the starting status:
- Wait for a reply (pending until they accept)
- Start as accepted (they are on the team unless they decline)
Some churches prefer accepted so Sunday is staffed without a round of taps. Others want an explicit yes.
Minors can serve when your church allows it; the roster warns you. A service hold on a person blocks scheduling until you end it.
Department heads can invite people on their teams as Team member only. They cannot pick Pastor or Admin.
The iOS and Android apps have Serving, the master schedule, and volunteer admin under More.