Is there an official partnership between MyChurch and Facebook?
In May 2009, MyChurch was selected by Facebook to participate in the
fbFund incubator program. MyChurch received an investment from fbFund, and the MyChurch team spent the summer of 2009 working out of Facebook offices. In addition, there is currently a Facebook product manager who has an equity interest in MyChurch in exchange for consulting services to the MyChurch team.
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Isn't MyChurch supposed to be a Christian alternative to Facebook/Myspace?
Facebook and Myspace are great platforms and opportunities for believers to both fellowship with each other and evangelize to non-believers. Instead of trying to attract believers away from these sites, we feel it's more effective to empower them by building on the Facebook platform and integrating.
We don't believe in trying to create the "Christian Facebook" or "Christian Youtube", or "Christian Twitter." Instead we seek to enable Christians to leverage their accounts and social graphs on these sites to more effectively communicate with their church community. In doing so, they're also able to outreach to their friends and grow their church's community.
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What does Facebook integration with MyChurch look like?
Integration comes in 2 forms:
1) The My Church application on Facebook which lets churches use all of our tools from within Facebook.com
2) Facebook Connect integration which allows users to login and use the MyChurch.org website with their Facebook accounts.
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How do I connect with my church network on Facebook?
The
My Church Facebook app lets you use all the church communication tools available on MyChurch.org, but from within Facebook.com. Church members can post bulletins, share prayer requests, and upload media from within Facebook. Aside from the top-level navigation, the look-and-feel of the app is identical to MyChurch.org
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How do I use my Facebook account on MyChurch?
You can login to MyChurch.org with your Facebook account which allows you to:
1) Connect with your Facebook friends who have already joined your church on MyChurch.org
2) Post any church activity back to your Facebook stream. Comments on a sermon, prayer requests, and posts on your church bulletins can all be published back to your Facebook wall so that your Facebook friends can see how you're participating in your church community. This kind of sharing is a powerful way to outreach and evangelize to your Facebook friends who are not members of your church.
If you already have a MyChurch account, go to your
Account Settings and click on the 'Connect with Facebook' button:
If you don't have a MyChurch account yet, you can just use your Facebook account instead of registering. On the
signup page, click 'Connect with Facebook'
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Why do I show up twice as a church member?
If you joined your church through the My Church Facebook app, and you also joined your church through MyChurch.org - you will show up twice. We are currently looking into solutions to prevent the display of the duplicate.
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