Church Community Builder vs. The City (Discontinued)

Church Community Builder is ideal if you are seeking to connect your church members to your pastoral staff and to one another in an effective way. If you are looking to plan major events (like our church's 25th Anniversary Service, for example; or our annual Marriage Conference), then Church Community Builder will be incredibly helpful to you! Church Community Builder is also helpful for distributing items like membership applications and mass emails.

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The City would work well for a church who struggles to provide an easy way for members to connect and join groups. While the app has some drawbacks, as noted above, it beats allowing visitors and members to remain disconnected and in the dark about ways to involve themselves in church activities. Better to have this kind of ability to connect than none at all.

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• Helps church members connect with one another.
• Provides church leaders with church members contact info readily and efficiently.
• Helps register attendance at retreats and other church events and functions.

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• View volunteering opportunities
• Find and join groups
• Submit prayer requests and join others in prayer
• Connect with other members

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• "Processes" option can sometimes be a bit confusing
• Mass communication process (via email) is a bit confusing
• Mass communication process (via text message) seems to be lacking

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• Seems the developer no longer supports the app
• User interface is difficult to navigate
• Often forces a sign out, thereby requiring you to sign in again
• Cumbersome search features

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Far and away, Church Community Builder is an incredibly superior product to PowerChurch. PowerChurch did not nearly feature all of the useful tools that Church Community Builder offers. Church Community Builder's greatest advantage over PowerChurch would be its accompanying Lead App, which allows me as a Pastor to easily pull up the contact information of any church member simply from my iPhone - PowerChurch didn't offer anything even remotely that useful. Choosing Church Community Builder was a clear no brainer.

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While I haven't used another social networking app built for churches, I have used an app built by another local church. The City makes connecting with members easier. The user experience is severely lacking in The City app. It does, however, facilitate connections between members.

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• We have seen increased connection between pastoral staff and church members
• We have been able to more effectively put on excellent church-wide events
• We have been able to systematize our membership application process (and also keep a better paper trail)

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• The City has made it easier to connect with people I met at church.
• It makes it simple to submit a prayer request and join others in prayer.
• It shows opportunities to get involved.

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