Main Fellowship Involvements¶
- Main Fellowship¶
A Main Fellowship type of Involvement should be the Involvement that will function as the group in which its members will receive their main shepherding or fellowship. In many churches, the Main Fellowship Involvements will be Sunday School classes. For other churches, it will be Community Groups or Small Groups that meet in homes throughout the week.
Main Fellowship Involvements are normally all the same type of Involvement - such as Sunday School; Small Groups; etc. A person’s Main Fellowship Leader will display wherever you see a list of people: People > Search, Tags, Search Builder. The Main Fellowship Leader will also display in some Excel exports as well. That name displays because that is the person responsible for shepherding that individual.
Note
Enroll each person in only one Main Fellowship Involvement. The exception is someone who serves in one class but also belongs to another, such as a teacher in a children’s class who is also in an adult class. See the Use Case below.
- Grade and Main Fellowship¶
When a person is enrolled in a class, the grade for that Main Fellowship Involvement might be placed on the person’s people record, if a grade doesn’t currently exist. The same could be true when a child is promoted to another class. Note: this grade will not replace an existing grade on the person’s record. Grade functions this way only for Main Fellowship Involvements.
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Set Main Fellowship Flag for an Involvement¶
Decide which Involvements are to be the Main Fellowship Involvements for your church before setting the flag on any Involvements.
- Step 1
Go to the Settings > General tab of the specific Involvement and click the Edit button. You must have the Edit role.
- Step 2
Check the box beside Main Fellowship and click the blue Save button.
Tip
A user with the Admin role can set this flag (and make other changes) for a group of Involvements using a batch process. Filter for the Involvements, select the Excel Export > Export Involvements and make the changes in the spreadsheet and save it. The Admin can then import the spreadsheet to make the changes.
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Use Case for Multiple Main Fellowship Enrollments
Any adult who is teaching in one class (such as a children’s class), but wants to stay associated with an adult class should be enrolled in both of those Main Fellowship classes. Make sure that that their Member Types are set correctly. They should be a Teacher (or some other type of Leader) in the Children’s class and have a Member Type of In-Service in the other class.
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Search Builder and Main Fellowship¶
TouchPoint has a Condition in Search Builder to help you find those in a Main Fellowship Class (or not - depending on your Search). The Condition is named In Main Fellowship.
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Attendance and Main Fellowship¶
The Attendance (Main Fellowship) Excel export lists each person’s contact information, Member Status, Main Fellowship Leader, age, school, and grade, along with their Main Fellowship attendance: last date attended, attendance percentage, and attendance string. Anyone with the Access role can run it for any Tag, Involvement, or search results.
To run the export, click the Cloud icon on the Blue Toolbar. In the Export Excel column, select Attendance (Main Fellowship) under Other Exports.
Note
If the Admin Setting LimitBlueToolbar is true, the Other Exports section is hidden, so this export is not available. See Exports and Reports (cloud icon).
Multiple Main Fellowship Enrollments¶
The TouchPoint system was designed with the idea that people will be enrolled in only one Main Fellowship class. Reports like the Attendance (Main Fellowship) export, mentioned in the preceding section, may give unexpected results if the person is enrolled in more than one Main Fellowship Involvement. The attendance columns show only one of those Main Fellowship enrollments, one that has an attendance percentage greater than 0.
To find people who are enrolled in more than one Main Fellowship class, you can use the report
Has Multiple Main Fellowships. For information about this report and how to include it on
your database, see Has Multiple Main Fellowships.
Latest Update |
10/23/2026 |
Updated the export name and location, described the Attendance (Main Fellowship) export columns, added role requirements, and reworded the one-Main-Fellowship guidance as a note.