Social Media
We has a WhatsApp Group for The Christian Community, Johannesburg. This WhatsApp Group is intended for “Announcements, news, and updates related to the greater Johannesburg Christian Community”. Everyone who wishes to join this group to in order to receive or share announcement or news can do so by using this link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/EI9KnnBJysM4ZdZuQtzI0U.
The purpose of the Group is to kept everyone on the Group up to date with the events, sacraments, gatherings, talks and happening at or with the Christian Community in Johannesburg. All member of the Group you will be made an admin. This is for the sake of fairness and impartiality as well as serving the practical purpose of allowing everyone the possibility to add anyone they feel would want to be a part of the Group. When you voluntarily join the Group using the link above, please look in the Group Info (click the 3 dots above each other icon in the top right corner) for a member who is an admin and ask them to upgrade you to an admin as well. The onus is on each member to assist each other member. As admin you also have access to editing functions, including the Group name, icon, and description. You are requested to: be kind, be measured, be polite, be considered, and be inspired. If you have been added by someone else and feel this Group will not serve you then remove yourself. No one will feel offended.
This group will rapidly grow to a large number of participants. This can result in a large amount of posts daily. This could become irritating. You can help in developing guidelines for the group.
Some proposals for the guidelines are:
These guidelines will be published as a “living document” in a few weeks. In the meanwhile, everyone’s input is encouraged. To send your suggestions click here.
The purpose of the Group is to kept everyone on the Group up to date with the events, sacraments, gatherings, talks and happening at or with the Christian Community in Johannesburg. All member of the Group you will be made an admin. This is for the sake of fairness and impartiality as well as serving the practical purpose of allowing everyone the possibility to add anyone they feel would want to be a part of the Group. When you voluntarily join the Group using the link above, please look in the Group Info (click the 3 dots above each other icon in the top right corner) for a member who is an admin and ask them to upgrade you to an admin as well. The onus is on each member to assist each other member. As admin you also have access to editing functions, including the Group name, icon, and description. You are requested to: be kind, be measured, be polite, be considered, and be inspired. If you have been added by someone else and feel this Group will not serve you then remove yourself. No one will feel offended.
This group will rapidly grow to a large number of participants. This can result in a large amount of posts daily. This could become irritating. You can help in developing guidelines for the group.
Some proposals for the guidelines are:
- No messages between 9pm in the evening and 7am the next morning.
- No advertising of personal information or businesses.
- Don’t reply in the Group to questions or announcements, rather reply directly to the person asking the question or making the announcement. E.g. announce someone’s birthday in the Group but wish them in a private message and don’t respond in the Group when someone’s birthday is announced.
- If you post something by mistake, please make use for the “Delete for Everyone” feature on WhatsApp.
- Don’t repeat an announcement more often than once in three (3) days.
- Limit posts to announcements that are relevant to the community in general – e.g. use WhatsApp Groups for Care Groups for announcements relevant to the respective Care Group – and news that is of general interest to the congregation – e.g. the fire in the Notre Dame Cathedral may be of general interest while a large traffic crash causing a major route to be blocked is of very limited interest.
- Communicate in English for the benefit of everyone.
- Should you have a complaint, please communicate directly with the person in question, a priest or the Trustees and not in the Group.
These guidelines will be published as a “living document” in a few weeks. In the meanwhile, everyone’s input is encouraged. To send your suggestions click here.
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