We’ve added a new detailed print style for visits, making it easier to print or export a complete view of all visit details for churches that keep offline copies. This includes an option to start each visit on a new page.

Be aware that visit notes are only included when the person printing the report has permission to view them.

You’ll find this new option in the three-dot dropdown menu on the visit search page, under Print. In the print dialog, select the Detailed option in the Style input.

The Annual URCNA Statistics report has been updated to reflect the changes approved by the 2026 URCNA Synod.

The biggest change is around profession of faith reporting. Instead of one broad “Professions of faith without adult baptism” statistic, the report now includes a total count along with more specific categories:

• Total professions of faith
• Professions of faith with adult baptism
• Professions of faith by baptized members
• Reaffirmations of faith
• Readmissions of disciplined baptized members

Synod also approved removing the family transfer statistics from the annual statistics. Since this change was anticipated, those family transfer statistics were never added to this report.

Search results in church fields now prioritize congregations that are most relevant to your own church. When searching for a congregation, your current church will appear first if it matches the search, followed by other churches in the same federation, and then congregations from other federations.

Minister suggestions now also use past entries to determine the most helpful order. Ministers used most often in baptism and profession of faith records will appear first, with names sorted alphabetically when usage counts are tied.

Together, these changes should make entering data into Church Social a little faster.

You can now choose how prayer requests are sorted when printing them. In addition to the default date-posted order, prayer requests can be sorted and grouped by category, making printed prayer lists easier to scan and share.

When sorting by category, you can also choose whether each category should start on a new page.

We’ve also added a new quick actions dropdown on the prayers page, which includes options to edit, archive, or delete a prayer request, saving you a few steps when making changes to existing prayers.

We’ve made adding addresses just a little bit easier: now, when you select a country and region (province/state), we automatically show your church’s country and region as the first options.

Since these are the options you’ll choose 99% of the time, it makes sense to list them first, so you don’t have to search or scroll to find them.

We’ve made it easier to share file folders in Church Social.

File folders have always had shareable URLs: members with access could simply copy and paste the URL from the browser address bar and share it with members who also have access. However, this wasn’t obvious, especially since there was a dedicated sharing option for individual files, but not one for file folders.

To make this clearer, we’ve added a new Share option to file folders. Just open the folder menu, click Share, and copy the link.

We’ve also updated both the file and folder sharing dialogs to include a convenient copy button.

As always, shared links respect your church’s existing file access settings. Members will only be able to view a shared file or folder if they already have permission to access it in Church Social.

Australian churches can now upload a PDF file for a person’s Working With Children Check (WWCC), in addition to recording the number and expiry date.

This gives churches the option to keep a copy of the WWCC card or supporting documentation on file for easier record keeping.

We’ve released version 2.0.6 of the Church Social app for iOS and Android, with several security, usability, and performance improvements.

The app should now open faster, thanks to some behind-the-scenes performance optimizations. We’ve also added an extra layer of protection when opening the full web app or viewing security settings, requiring members to verify access using their device’s built-in authentication, such as Face ID, Touch ID, or PIN entry.

This update also improves how trusted devices are shown for iOS users on the account security page. Instead of simply showing generic names like “iPhone” or “iPad,” Church Social now displays the actual device name, such as “Jonathan’s iPhone,” making it easier for members to identify their devices if they have more than one.

We’ve also made a few smaller improvements throughout the app, including adding reply counts to the messages screen, allowing the calendar to scroll all the way to the last available date, and fixing the selected date styling in the Android calendar.

We recommend updating to the latest version of the app to get these improvements. You can download or update the app from the App Store or Google Play.

We’ve added a new Annual URCNA statistics report to Church Social, built specifically for our URCNA customers, to make annual federation reporting easier and more consistent.

Each year, URCNA church administrators have the challenging task of gathering and reviewing membership statistics for reporting to the federation. This new report helps simplify that work by automatically preparing the annual statistics commonly needed, including church officers, covenant families and singles, baptized and professing members, baptisms, professions of faith, deaths, membership transfers, releases, and removals.

The report always reflects the previous calendar year, using membership data as of December 31 of that year. For example, throughout 2026 the report shows 2025 statistics.

Each row in this report can be clicked to review the underlying people, families, memberships, or office-bearer terms that make up the statistic. Where helpful, the report also shows related details such as baptism dates, profession dates, ministers, transfer churches, membership end dates, and warnings for records that may need review.

Our hope is that this report will not only save time for local administrators, but also help participating URCNA churches generate these statistics in a more consistent way across the federation.

We’re grateful to Jody Luth, the URCNA Statistics and Directory Editor, for her help and guidance as we worked to prepare this report.

The report is available to URCNA churches in the People section on the Reports page.

We’ve added a new federation and congregation directory to make church selection more consistent across Church Social.

When editing a person’s membership, baptism, or profession information, churches that participate in the directory can now select a congregation from a standardized list instead of typing the church name manually. This helps avoid duplicate variations of the same church name and makes reporting more reliable.

We’re also gradually reviewing more than 15 years of historical text-based church names in Church Social and linking them to these new church records where we can confidently determine which congregation was intended.

To start, we’ve mostly focused on NAPARC and adjacent churches, but we plan to add additional federations in the future. As of today, the following federations are included:

• Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC)
• Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Canada (ARPCC)
• Canadian & American Reformed Churches (CanRC)
• Free Reformed Churches of Australia (FRCA)
• Free Reformed Churches of North America (FRCNA)
• Heritage Reformed Congregations (HRC)
• Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC)
• Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
• Presbyterian Reformed Church (PresRC)
• Reformed Churches in New Zealand (RCNZ)
• Reformed Church in the United States (RCUS)
• Reformed Church of Quebec (ERQ)
• Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America (RPCNA)
• Reformed Presbyterian Church of Canada (RPCC)
• United Reformed Churches in North America (URCNA)

If a church from one of these federations is missing, or if its information is incorrect, please feel free to email us with corrections.

Manual church name entry is still available for churches that are not in the directory, or for situations where a congregation cannot be found.

We recently introduced push notifications for the Church Social iOS and Android apps. As part of that change, we added some automation to help members avoid being notified twice about new messages: once by email, and once by push notification. Once a member was consistently receiving push notifications for new messages on their phone or tablet, we automatically disabled their matching email notifications.

While this change was meant to reduce duplicate notifications, we heard from some churches that automatically changing members’ notification settings caused confusion for people who wondered why they were no longer receiving email notifications for new Church Social messages.

Based on that feedback, we’ve adjusted our approach. Going forward, Church Social will no longer automatically disable new message email notifications for members who are receiving push notifications.

Instead, we now include the following short note at the bottom of new message emails, explaining how members can turn off email notifications themselves if they’d prefer to avoid duplicate notifications:

Hey there! It looks like you're using the Church Social iOS/Android app and are already receiving push notifications for new messages. If you don't want to be notified twice, you can disable these email notifications in your account notification settings.

Please note that we are not automatically reverting this change for members who already had their new message email notifications disabled. Administrators can re-enable these notifications for members, or members can re-enable them themselves from their account notification settings. Once re-enabled, these email notifications will remain enabled moving forward.

Thanks for your patience as we continue to improve how notifications work in Church Social.

We fixed an issue where schedules using the "Date / Description / Name" sort option could show entries in the wrong order when multiple participant types were scheduled on the same date. For example, an entry with a "4 pm" description could appear before an entry with a "2 pm" description.

The "User roles" report now includes office-bearers roles (elders, deacons, and pastors) alongside administrators, statisticians, and the other application roles — these are all forms of elevated access, so it makes sense to see them in one place.

We've also added a new "Two-factor auth" column that shows whether each user has 2FA enabled, either because they've turned it on themselves or because it's required by their role.

Church Social now shows badge counts for unread messages in the iOS and Android apps.

When you have unread messages, you'll now see a small red badge on the Church Social app icon on your home screen, making it easier to know when there are new messages waiting for you. You'll also see the same unread count on the Messages tab inside the app.

This builds on our recent push notification update, and helps make sure important church messages are easier to notice and follow up on.

To use this feature, make sure you're using the latest version of the Church Social app for iOS or Android. You can find direct links to the app stores here: churchsocial.com/mobile-apps.

Two-factor authentication is now enabled by default for Pastors, Elders, and Deacons, joining the roles we previously enabled it for: Administrators, Statisticians, Report Managers, and Treasurers.

Users in these roles will be asked to enter a security code sent to them by email when logging in.

Administrators can review and adjust these requirements in their church's security settings.