A brief overview on group roles in MinistryPlatform, including approaches to create group roles, instructions to create group roles, and more.

A group role is a position or job you can assign to someone in your church. It's how the individual group member relates to the group itself. For example, a group type of "class" may have teachers, helpers, and students.

There are two approaches to create group roles:

• Consolidated List: Use the same 7-10 group roles throughout ministries. Each role is clearly defined for the type of participant you want to assign it to. This way, ministry leaders can all speak the same language and easily identify which participants do what in each group when they look at the data. You can also easily search on the Group Participants page and create views for each role.
• Expanded List: Use a variety of roles. Each ministry can work with their SPoC and develop roles that work for their various groups. In this approach, it's important to use the role type and ensure that each role you create is assigned to the appropriate type to classify participants for views. One benefit of the expanded list approach is that you can create fewer groups with more group roles. Having fewer groups makes it easier for the casual person to communicate with their groups and run reports.