Can't read conversations. If I open a conversation in a group... after a random interval between 1 second and 30 seconds... the app literally just reboots itself, shows the homepage. If I clicked a notification to go to a conversation, the app will infinitely loop this: Open conversation, refresh back to homepage, automatically switch back to the conversation (like the notification was clicked again), then loop this over and over. The August 16th update broke something horribly. Pixel 7 Pro.
Reviews for Church Center App
← Back to Church Center AppUpdate: after the app update, it reloads the chat several times, popping messages over & over, without the ability to see previous messages...? | Nowhere to choose your privacy, everyone has your info and no way to opt out of emails. Furthermore in chat, the app chooses to randomly select phrases you wrote, and hide/delete them when posting. I can't figure out if this is when certain symbols are used for emphasis, but that's really unprofessional!! Makes for an incomplete message
NOT IMPRESSED! A 2.5. It's NOT intuitive; it's NOT user friendly & has limited functionality. Options are hidden! I DON'T WANT TO PLAY HIDE & GO SEEK! SHOCKED to see that there is no password for GIVING!!! Without a Security Code for GIVING, I won't be giving! I thought that I could download this app to my laptop, but I guess NOT. If I could, then I would give from there. Took too long to find out how to log out & back in. No password. A code is sent via a text! Convenient for a thief!
it kicked me out of the app. I'm not receiving the codes to access my church profile. I've tried email and phone. changing notifications preferences. deleting and installing again. turning my phone on and off again. I connected with my church and all my information is correct. I was not able to open messages, I couldn't read full messages, and I couldn't respond to messages. I'm not satisfied with this app currently. I'll try again in a few days, in hope that it resolves with my review.
The purpose behind this app is great, but I find it to be cumbersome to use. I am in multiple groups and receive many messages throughout the day. Opening and responding to these messages could be a full time job in and of itself as it takes forever for every step to load. I constantly get a "reconecting' bar across the top of my screen. I usually give up and leave the messages unread because it becomes frustrating.
Surely I love this App and all it allows me to do with my church. I have a current issue that I'm writing and hoping can be resolved. I am not able to log-in there is continually an error to log me in. I recently switched to a new phone, and so thinking that is the issue I factory reset my old one, delete the app and it's data on the new one, uninstall and reinstall and nothing seems works. So unfortunately, I'm unable to log in.
Edit: Things have gotten worse. I thought maybe it was my old phone having troubles. Got a new phone, same problems, plus the lag on this app has gotten worse. I am struggling to get it to upload photos, bring up new messages, and click buttons. Please, make this app better! The new update is horrible. Slow loading, chats disapearing and then reappearing, getting notifications,and then not taking me to what was mentioned. The only good change is I can see who has reacted to comments now.
I really appreciate how there are so many elements in the one app, but the only thing that I think it's missing is a way to search the chats. I know there's a message from a couple months ago with some helpful information, but I'm not sure which group it was from and I can't seem to scroll far enough to find it without spending hours searching, so I end up sending out a new message requesting the info. It would be so helpful to have a keyword search of all my chats.
It has a lot of features that are useful for a congregation. I do wish that some of the user preferences were more intuitive. I almost left a group that I had been added to which was blowing up my phone before I figured out that control of individual group notifications are hidden in the settings cog. This and a few other features would be a simple thing to add to the UI to make it more friendly to members who are more casual users since some might just uninstall the app from annoyance.
I've had to delete and reinstall this app multiple times and still when I try to register for an event it locks up and flashes back and forth between screens. I have to log in on my computer to register for things at my church. The app is great when it works but when it doesn't it's worse than nothing! Even reinstalling it isn't solving the problem now!
Can't log in! After my device restarted, the app required my device password, which happens to be 16 characters. Whenever I enter it, I get a dialog that says the password must be no more than 16 characters. Apparently, the app can't count to 16! Until now, the app has been great; now it's useless.
This app is a bit of a pain - I only use this because my church does. To go from notification to the message often takes too much time and effort. Often some kind of additional authentication is needed, followed by many cognitively-involved navigation steps. It already took so many clicks just to see messages, and then they moved groups behind the more button. To be frank, this app is probably the most significant communication barrier between me and my church. I dread using it.
Update: It is working now. Prior post: Nothing has worked right yet. Tried to join a small group at the church and my email was labeled spam, tried to update my profile information and it won't update. Tried to see if I could update it online but can't remember my password and when I clicked forgot password, I never got an email to reset it. Very frustrating.
Update doesn't allow the ability in conversation chats to write body text along with a heading. It's not working well for two reasons. 1) My highlighted post gets overlooked, and 2) It sometimes takes several minutes for me to write the body and a couple more for internet to post in the conversation section after the topic is created. People see a new heading but nothing there. Also, I liked the longer list of topical chats so people can easily find what they're looking for.
Not impressed. I installed and uninstalled multiple times trying to get the sync calendars option to work. A church friend notified Church Center of the problem. She received an email saying the problem had been corrected. Uninstalled and installed again per instructions and it still won't sync. I get a notification "unable to launch event". I'm not trying to launch an event, I'm trying to sync calendars....
Our church began using this app in mid-2021. We have had a few glitches reported from our congregants as well as the most recent, which is that the map (directions) does not open and we have yet to figure out why this stopped working. There also could be some enhancements made to what we can do with the overall design in the Publishing portion of the app. It is still fairly limited and it would be nice to have some ability to customize color, font and the appearance.
Really a poorly executed app. The messaging is so bad that our church groups communicate far less and we are much less involved with each other as a community than we used to with other messaging apps. The rest of the app is also cumbersome and a chore to navigate. I also have to re-register every few months from scratch. Even though I'm getting notifications from my church I have to sign up and try to search for it and register like I haven't already done it.
I am disappointed in the size of the pictures. Many times, I don't know a name, only a face and I wonder who it is. The small pictures that don't enlarge make it hard to find people. People have tried to send texts through this app and I never get them. I wish it had the alphabet at the side so I didn't have to scroll through everyone to get to later letters.
The app is great for some things but not for others. I feel like with my Google phone I almost always have issues with certain apps. The current issue I'm having is with registrations. Some of the registrations will work for me in some do not. The registrations that have drop down boxes or things to click on it won't let me click on them and I can't skip or continue without doing so. I have tried reinstalling the app but it still doesn't fix it.
Horrible functionality. Everything you need to try and do with it, you can't do unless you go through "selected 'gatekeepers' " for what you need. This app gives the church more control and organization, but it also forces the congregation into being micro managed by those gatekeepers or those who don't know how to effectively use the app.