Your community’s timeline, without the social network.
The Eclesi feed is where church life gets told during the week: a photo from the baptism, the invitation to a small group, the thank-you for the working party. Leaders post on behalf of a group or a church, and members like and comment from the web or from the app. It is private to your community, and only to it.
Communication lost in the scroll
What a church posts on a public network competes with advertising, politics and a video from a stranger. Sunday’s message reaches half a dozen people and then vanishes.
The phone message thread turns into an avalanche of stickers: the invitation that needed to be seen is buried within minutes and nobody can find what was agreed on Tuesday.
Anyone who is not on any social network is simply left out. The church ends up with two audiences: those who saw it and those who only find out the following Sunday, when it is already over.
What the Eclesi feed does
A timeline that is only your church
The feed is an infinite-scrolling timeline in order of the most recent posts. There is no advertising, no suggestion from a stranger and no algorithm deciding what your church is allowed to see. Whatever shows up there was posted by someone from your own community, and that changes the tone of the conversation.
Post with text and an image
A post takes text and an image, which covers most of what a church has to tell: the record of the service, the baptism photo, the invitation to the next gathering, the thanks for the working party. It is quick to write on a phone and it reads well both in the app and in the web workspace.
Post on behalf of a group or a church
Whoever leads a group or a church can post on its behalf, and the post is signed by the group or by the congregation rather than by the person. The small group’s message looks like the small group, the congregation’s message looks like the congregation, and leaders never have to lend a personal profile to speak for the community.
Real likes and real comments
Posts receive likes and comments, and comments can be liked, edited and deleted by whoever wrote them. That is the difference between a noticeboard, where the church talks to itself, and a conversation, where the community answers back. An edited comment stays in place, without breaking the thread.
Archive instead of delete
A post that has done its job can be archived, leaving the feed without disappearing from the church’s history. Nothing is lost to a wrong click on a busy afternoon, and next month’s feed does not carry last month’s invitations. Archiving is a reversible decision; deleting would not be.
Private, on the web and in the app
The feed lives inside your church account and is seen by the people who belong to it, through the web workspace and the first tab of the member app. There is no public address, no anonymous visitor reading the timeline and no outside follower. What belongs to the community stays in the community.
Frequently asked questions about the feed
Bring the church’s conversation back inside the church.
Thirty days free, no credit card. Post the first photo, invite your leaders, and watch the community answer from the app. It is the module members notice first, and the fastest way to bring the whole church into the system.