Both switches must be on: the group's TYPE has to be visible in Church Center, and the group itself has to be listed. A listed group inside a hidden type stays hidden, which surprises people most often.

Will it show a member's home address?

Only if you have marked that group's location as exact. Where you have set it to approximate, we store and show only a rough city and state — the full address never reaches our database at all.

A group finder that lives on your own site.

Planning Center Groups

Your open groups as a browsable directory — what each one is, when it meets, and how many have already joined — so someone can find the one that fits before they commit to anything.

Meeting addresses follow the setting you already made in Planning Center: exact locations show in full, approximate ones show only the town, and hidden ones show nothing. Groups meet in people's houses, and that should never be our call to make.

What shows, and what decides that

Groups you've listed, inside a group type visible in Church Center.

The switch is in Planning Center, not here: Groups → the group type → visibility, then the individual group's listing setting.

That is the privacy model for the whole product rather than a setting for this one module. Every embed has to name the Planning Center flag that makes its data public — a flag you control, before we ever read it — and a module that cannot name one does not ship.

How current it is

Within about 15 minutes. We ask Planning Center for your groups every 15 minutes, so a group you add, edit or close appears on your finder by the next check.

Questions

A group is missing.: Both switches must be on: the group's TYPE has to be visible in Church Center, and the group itself has to be listed. A listed group inside a hidden type stays hidden, which surprises people most often.
Will it show a member's home address?: Only if you have marked that group's location as exact. Where you have set it to approximate, we store and show only a rough city and state — the full address never reaches our database at all.

Putting it on your site

One line of code on the page where you want it, on the website you already have. The steps depend on what that site is built with — Squarespace, WordPress, Wix, or anything else that lets you add HTML.

Group finder is included in the one subscription along with every other embed, and connecting Planning Center renders your own data before you pay for anything.