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Chat With an Individual or a Group

Take part in a real-time conversation with an individual or the people in your group or serving team.

  • Communication settings must be turned on for members to create posts, chat, or attach files or photos.

Chat is for quick, back-and-forth conversation such as letting people know you're running late, or sharing a change of plans. Replies appear in real time, and your chats carry over between the web browser and the mobile app.

You can chat with any individual, but your group or team leader must start group chats first. Once the chat is underway, you can take part in it.

  1. In the top-left corner, click your site name then Connect. Then click Communications > Chat.
    All of our chats, whether with individuals or a group or serving team are located on this page.
  2. In the Recent column, click the name of the individual, or your group or team to open its chat.
  3. Enter a message and click Send. Optionally, you can
    • To include a file, click the paper clip icon and select the file.

    • To include an emoji, click the emoji icon.

If you have the Connect App mobile app, you'll keep receiving push notifications for new activity in a chat you've replied to. You can mute those notifications for a set time or indefinitely. Leaving a private chat removes its history for you and stops all further notifications.