Daily Devotional (staff)

Select Daily Devotional under Resources. The page shows how many devotionals you have for each audience and a calendar of what's scheduled.

Library totals

One box per audience, for example Adult 366 and Teens 178 devotionals.

Select Year

Switch the year to look at past or future devotionals.

Calendar

Each day shows that day's devotional title. Use Adult / Teens (and any other audience) above the calendar to switch, and the arrows to change month.

Recent Entries

The devotionals added most recently.

Manage Devotional

The button at the top right where you add, edit and upload devotionals.

1. 1Select a day on the calendar.
2. 2The devotional opens with its audience, date, title, memory verse, reading and message. Published at the bottom means members can see it.
3. 3Select the pencil to edit it, or the × to close.

Adult and Teens come set up. To write devotionals for another group, add it as an audience first.

1. 1In the left menu go to Settings → Global Settings → Daily Devotional Settings.
2. 2Under Add New Audience, type the Audience Name, for example Children.
3. 3Leave Status on Active and select Create Audience.
4. 4It appears in Existing Audiences. Back on the Daily Devotional page it now has its own box and tab.

1. 1Select Manage Devotional.
2. 2Choose the audience tab at the top: Adult, Teens or another audience.
3. 3The list on the right shows that month's devotionals by date. Use the arrows to change month.
4. 4Next to each one: the eye opens it, the pencil edits it and the × deletes it.

1. 1In Manage Devotional, select Add New — or the pencil next to an existing one.
2. 2Pick the Date and the Audience it's for.
3. 3Type the Title and, if you have one, a Sermon Link.
4. 4Write the Message: memory verse, reading and the devotional text. Use the toolbar for bold, lists and so on.
5. 5Select Save. Members see it on that date in their Daily Devotional page and dashboard.

Load a whole month or year in one go with a CSV (spreadsheet) or JSON file.

1. 1In Manage Devotional, choose the audience tab, then select Bulk.
2. 2Select Sample CSV or Sample JSON to download a template.
3. 3Open the template and add one row per devotional: date, audience, title, message and the other columns it shows. Keep the column names exactly as they are.
4. 4Back in Bulk Upload, select Click to Upload CSV or JSON and choose your file.
5. 5Wait for it to finish. The devotionals appear in the list and calendar for that audience.