Group Settings And Preferences

The Settings page contains a tab named Groups on which you can set preferences for notifications and alerts.  When important events happen—such as requests to join your group or updates to prayers you are following—Be Still sends you notifications and alerts.  Notifications are sent directly to your device and will appear immediately, even if you are not using Be Still.  …

Group Notifications And Alerts

Be Still sends you notifications and alerts to make you aware of important events.  Notifications and alerts differ in important ways.  Notifications appear on your device outside of Be Still, and they can appear even if Be Still is not running.  Notifications on iOS devices look like this:  Notifications on Android devices look like this:  Be Still sends notifications for …

Deleting A Group

An admin of a group may delete the group at any time.  Upon deletion, all prayers in the group are erased.  If any of the prayers were followed, those prayers vanish from the My Prayers list of any users who followed them.  All members of the group are expelled from the group, and the group disappears from the group search …

Viewing Who Is In Your Group

If you are the admin of a group, you may view a list of all the members of that group, and you may remove any member whose presence in the group is no longer needed or appropriate.  To view or remove members of a group:  1. Go to the Group Settings page using either of two ways:  (a) Tap the …

Editing A Group

After you create a group, you may need to change its name or its attributes.  You must be the admin of a group to edit it.  Editing a group changes only the group name, location, church, purpose, or join policy.  Prayers within the group and members of the group are not changed in any way.    To edit an existing group:  …

Creating A Group

Any Be Still user can create a new prayer group at any time.  That user then becomes the admin of the new group.  Before you create a new group, you should gather the following information, some of which is required and some optional:  Name — a short descriptive name for the group.  Required.  Location — The city and state affiliated …

Leaving A Group

Members of a group may leave any group that they had previously joined.    Admins may not leave their own groups.  They must delete the group and recreate it with a new admin.  If you leave a group, the prayers you posted while you were a member will remain in the group.  If you want them removed, you must explicitly delete …

Options For Group Prayers

You can open a prayer options page for prayers that you create on your own My Prayers list.  These prayers are not part of a prayer group, so you can do many things to them: share them, edit them, snooze them, delete them, and so forth.  Prayers that you view in a group prayer list also have an options page, …

Moderating Prayer Requests

Occasionally you may spot prayers in a group that are inappropriate for that group.  The prayer author may have posted the prayer to the wrong group, shared information that violates someone’s privacy, or included content that is unfit for shared prayers.    Any Be Still user can mark, or flag, any group prayer as inappropriate.  The admin of the group is …

Sharing Prayers With A Group

If you are not the member or admin of any groups, Be Still automatically adds all your new prayers into your My Prayers list.  You merely enter the text of the new prayer and tap Save:  However, this process changes slightly as soon as you become the admin or a member of a group.  From that point on, you must …

Following Prayers In A Group

If you are a member of a group, you can open the prayer list for that group and view all the prayers that other members have posted there.  Sometimes you may find that one or more prayers in the group are especially interesting or relevant to you.   Be Still lets you follow prayers in a group.  When you follow a …

Viewing Prayers In A Group

After you join a group, you may view all the prayers that have been posted to that group by any of its members.  To view the prayers within a prayer group:  1. Tap the Groups button at the bottom of the page:  2. Be Still displays the Groups page.  The groups of which you are either a member or the …

Approving New Group Members

If you are the admin of a group that requires approval for new members to join it, then you will automatically receive an join request.  If you have turned on group notifications, the join request will be pushed to your device, even if you are not using or running Be Still.  Notifications on iOS devices look like this:  Notifications on …

Joining A Prayer Group

It’s easy to find any Be Still prayer group if you know the approximate name of the group or any of its key attributes, such as location, church, or admin name.  In general, you discover the name of a prayer group from the admin of that group, who creates the group and then publicizes its name to everyone who may …

How To Use Prayer Groups

Prayer groups are online communities of Be Still users who share prayers.  Each prayer group, often called simply a group, has a name and a purpose.  Every member of a group can create new prayers in the group, and then all other members of that group see those prayers and can include them in their own prayer times.  Only prayers …