App Terms of Use
What you agree to when you use the Christchurch Miami app. We've kept it short and in plain words, because a document nobody reads protects nobody.
Last updated: September 14, 2026
These terms cover the Christchurch Miami mobile app. Our website has its own terms. By using the app you agree to what follows.
Who We Are
Christchurch Miami, a Presbyterian Church in America congregation at 8485 SW 112th Street, Miami, FL 33156. Reach us at jeff@christchurchmiami.org or (305) 271-5262.
Who Can Use It
Anyone can read the prayer wall, watch sermons and read the devotional. To post, you need to sign in with your email.
You need to be 13 or older to have an account. This app is made for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect their information, and if we learn a child under 13 has an account, we close it and remove its content. A parent who believes their child has one can email jeff@christchurchmiami.org or call the church office.
Youth under 18 do use this church's groups. A group with young people in it is led by a screened adult leader who can see everything said in that group's conversation — see the privacy policy for who sees what.
What You Post
You keep ownership of what you write. By posting, you give the church permission to display it in the app and on our website according to the visibility you chose — public, anonymous, or private.
Every request is read by a person before it appears. Nothing publishes automatically. That review usually happens the same day, but it is done by people, not machines, and not overnight.
When you post, you are confirming that:
- It is your own story to tell. If it names someone else, you have their permission.
- It is not abusive, harassing, or an attack on a person.
- You are not selling, soliciting, or campaigning.
- It is not someone else's copyrighted material.
Our Community Guidelines say the same thing in fewer words, and are the practical version of this section.
Nothing Is Anonymous to Leadership
You can post so that your name never appears to the church. Our pastors, elders and staff can still see who wrote it. This is not surveillance — it is what lets someone reach out when a request suggests they should. Post as though a pastor will read it, because one will.
When We Remove Something
Church leadership may remove content that breaks these terms or the community guidelines. When we do, we will tell you, and tell you why.
You can ask us to look again — reply to that message or email jeff@christchurchmiami.org, and a pastor will review it. We get it wrong sometimes and we would rather hear about it.
Reporting and Blocking
Every request has a ⋯ menu with two options. You do not need an account to report something; you do need one to block someone.
Reporting takes the request off your wall straight away and sends it to the same people who read every request before it is posted. It does not take it off anyone else's wall — one report is not a veto over somebody else's prayer request, and only a moderator can remove something. The person who wrote it is never told who reported it.
We act on every report within 24 hours. A person looks at it, decides, and either takes the content down — telling the author why — or leaves it up. Reports that say someone may be in danger are not held to that window; those go out immediately, at any hour. We may also suspend or remove an account that keeps breaking these terms.
One of the reasons is "someone may be in danger." That one is not a moderation complaint and is not treated as one: it goes to staff and elders immediately rather than waiting in a queue, and you will be shown a crisis number. Please use it when you mean it.
Blocking works both ways. If you block someone, neither of you sees the other's requests on the wall. They are not told. You can undo it under Me. Requests posted anonymously cannot be blocked, because doing so would tell you that two anonymous requests came from the same person — you can still report them.
If You Take Something Down
You can ask us to remove anything you posted, at any time, and we will.
Our pastors keep a copy so they can keep praying for you. If you would rather they did not, tell us and we will delete it entirely. We say this here because you should know it before you post, not after.
Group Rooms and GIFs
Group conversations are private to that group and are moderated by the group's leader, who can remove any message in the room. You can remove anything you wrote yourself. What is said in a group is not yours to repeat outside it, screenshots included.
GIFs come from Giphy. When you search, the words you type go to Giphy so they can answer — nothing else does, and Giphy is not told who you are or which church you belong to. Results are limited to Giphy's most restrictive content rating, and that limit is set on our server rather than on your phone.
Reading Circles
A reading circle is a small named group walking through the same daily reading. Members see each other's first name, whether each person has finished today, and how many days in a row they have read. You can send a one-tap "I prayed for you."
For most circles there are no messages at all. No chat, no notes, no captions — nowhere to type anything to another member except the circle's name when you create it.
We are testing messaging in a small number of adult circles. If yours is one of them you will see it, and the ordinary rules apply: be decent, you can report a message or block a member, and we act on reports within a day. The test is adults only — a circle with anyone under 18 in it does not get messages, and that is enforced when the circle asks for access rather than left to a setting.
Anyone can start a circle and invite anyone, by sharing a link. You can pause a circle's notifications or leave it at any time, with no reason given and nobody notified beyond the circle quietly getting smaller. Church leadership can see every circle that exists and can end any of them.
Youth
Students can write to their youth pastor in the app, and can send an anonymous question to be answered at youth group. Two rules govern both, and they are not settings we can quietly change.
Every message to the youth inbox is delivered to two adults. The app names them on the screen where a student writes, and it will not send at all unless two adults are set up to receive it. There is no private one-to-one channel between an adult and a student in this app.
Students do not message each other here. There is no student chat and no student feed. Everything a student can send goes to a named adult.
The inbox is not an emergency service. Someone reads it within a day. If a student needs help immediately the app points them to a crisis screen with a phone number, and they should use that instead.
A parent can ask us what their child has sent, and can ask us to delete it.
Listening
The devotional and our blog posts can be read aloud. Those recordings are made ahead of time from text we already published — the same file for everyone, with nothing about you sent anywhere when you press play. When the app reads prayer requests aloud, your own phone's voice does it and the words never leave your device. Care requests are never read aloud.
Giving
Giving happens on Church Center, operated by Planning Center — not inside this app. Those transactions are governed by Planning Center's terms and privacy policy, not ours. The church never sees or stores your card details.
Sermon Video
Sermons, full services and the song library play through YouTube's embedded player, using YouTube API Services. By using the app you also agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's terms apply to what happens inside the player, including any comments shown there. Those comments are on YouTube's platform and are moderated by us there, not through this app.
Notifications
Notifications are off until you turn them on, and you choose what you get: the daily reading, reminders you set, replies to you, and messages from the church are four separate switches under Me → Notifications. Turning one off does not turn off the others.
Quiet hours are on by default, 9 PM to 7 AM. Two things still come through and we want to be plain about it: your daily reading at the time you chose, because you asked for it at that time, and anything urgent about someone's safety. Nothing else wakes you.
We keep a delivery code for your phone for as long as notifications are on. Turning them off, signing out, or deleting your account removes it. The church does not use notifications for advertising and does not sell them to anyone.
If Someone Is in Danger
The app may show crisis resources, including 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The app is not an emergency service and is not monitored around the clock. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911. If you are having thoughts of suicide or self-harm, call or text 988. Do not wait for a reply here.
What We Don't Promise
We provide the app as it is. We do not guarantee it will always be available or free of faults, and we are not responsible for what other members write. Prayer and pastoral care offered through this app are not a substitute for medical, legal, psychological, or financial advice from a qualified professional.
Ending Your Use
You can delete your account yourself, in the app, under Me → Delete my account. You do not have to ask anyone and you do not have to explain why.
That removes your prayer requests from the wall along with any notes on them, notes you sent to other people, your reading streak, and notifications to your phone. It does not remove your church record. Planning Center holds your giving history, your family and your membership, and that belongs to your relationship with this church rather than to this app — if you want that removed as well, the church office can do it. Prayers you offered for other people stay counted, because those counts were true when they were made and they belong to the people you prayed for.
See the privacy policy for everything we hold. We may suspend an account that repeatedly breaks these terms, and we will say why.
Changes
If we change these terms we will update the date at the top. If a change materially affects what happens to what you have written, we will tell you in the app rather than relying on you to notice.
Governing Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida.