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The Community: know your online congregation, don't just count it

1 min read · June 2026

A view count is the most seductive and least useful number in digital ministry. It tells you someone pressed play. It tells you nothing about whether they're known, growing, or alone.

The Community in A Herald's Place is built to move past the vanity metric — to help a herald understand and care for a global congregation, not just measure an audience. Who keeps coming back. Who's part of the body. Who might be ready to go deeper or to be handed to a local group.

Counting is easy. Knowing is ministry. This is built for knowing.

A Herald's Place is fully specified and on the way.