How to add your online services and events on A Church Near You

In this guide we take you through the steps to adding your online services and events onto AChurchNearYou.com this Christmas. We know many people will be searching for local services and events to attend, whether online or onsite - AChurchNearYou.com sees its busiest time of the year in December - help them to easily find your services and events this Advent and Christmas.

Adding them here also allows the Church of England to see the brilliant work that's happening nationally and all the services being offered by churches.

How to add you services and events on to A Church Near you

First, log in to AChurchNearYou.com and navigate to your church page by clicking on My churches and benefices in the top right hand menu. If you are not yet an editor of your church's page and would like to become one, follow the guide here.

How to add your online services and events

Go to Services and events in the left-hand menu of your church's A Church Near You page
Either click on + to create a new event or the pencil to edit an existing one
Enter the title and description for your service or event
Next, click Change Tags
To tag a live-streamed use Live-streamed service
Find other relevant tags by typing into the search field such as Christmas eve, Christmas Carols, or simply Christmas
Click Okay when done
Continue to fill in details such as the location, date and time
Under Optional details insert the link to your live stream, such as the YouTube or Facebook link
Use file upload to provide a copy of the order of service or childrens activites
Click Save or Copy to copy the event to another page in your Benefice.