We released a new feature today to let you post prayer requests.  Your prayers appear on your profile, on the Explore page, and on your church's community tab.

Your friends' prayer requests automatically show up on your homepage feed.  But feel free to pray for others who aren't your friends, especially other members of your local church.

We also gave the church Community Tab a facelift.  It's now filterable by Prayer requests, Sharing posts, and Announcements - all things that are posted by your local community, for your local community. 

We're phasing out the church blog from the Community tab.  While your church blog will still exist (mychurch.org/churchname/blog), church members will no longer be able to write to it.  This feature was used by less than 1% of the churches.  And it didn't really fit into the "by the community, for the community" theme as the Prayers, Classifieds, and Announcements features.  If you were one of the few churches that used the group blog, feel free to use Announcements which has nearly identical functionality. Or you can link to your pastor's blog (or whoever was contributing to the group blog) from your church's About section.

But we did bring back a couple other features.  Seeing which of your friends are online now.  And subscribing (aka following) to someone's blog.  Both these features were highly missed, especially "Online now."  And even blog subscriptions gets asked about regularly even though it was removed more than a year ago!

Thanks to all the folks who wrote in voicing their inputs... Sue got an earful :)