You Can't Be in Every Group — But You Can Shepherd Every Leader Who Is
As a pastor, your small groups are the lifeblood of your church. That is where real relationships form, where people are honest about their struggles, and where the gospel takes root in everyday life.
But you cannot attend 30 groups a week. You rely on leaders to tell you what is happening — and often, you only hear about problems after they have already become crises. A family leaves the church. A member spirals into isolation. A group quietly shrinks from 15 to 4.
Flock gives you eyes across every group without micromanaging a single leader. Your leaders use Flock to run their groups. You see the patterns, the trends, and the people who need your attention — all from your phone.
Quick Start: 3 Steps for Pastors
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Invite your group leaders — Send invitations from the admin panel. When leaders accept, their groups automatically connect to your dashboard.
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Review the health dashboard — Open the Insights Dashboard to see group health scores, attendance trends, and at-risk members across your entire church.
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Set up the intercessory prayer wall — Enable the Intercessory Prayer Wall so leaders can elevate serious prayer requests for pastoral staff to see and respond to.
Top Features for Pastors
Group Health Scores — See Which Groups Thrive and Which Need Attention
Every group in your church gets a health score based on attendance trends over the past four weeks. The score is simple and visual:
- 80 to 100 (Green) — Healthy. Members are showing up consistently.
- 60 to 79 (Yellow) — Needs attention. Attendance is slipping.
- Below 60 (Red) — At risk. This group may need direct pastoral support.
You can see all your groups at a glance, sorted by health score. Instead of waiting for a quarterly report that is already outdated, you get a live picture of how your groups are doing — this week, not last quarter.
When you spot a yellow or red group, you can reach out to the leader, offer coaching, or step in with support before the group loses momentum.
Learn more about Group Health Scores
At-Risk Member Alerts — Proactive Care, Not Reactive
Flock tracks attendance across every group and flags members who are showing signs of disengagement. The criteria are straightforward:
- Three or more consecutive absences, or
- Less than 50% attendance over the last four weeks
These alerts appear on your dashboard. You can see which members are drifting, which groups they belong to, and how long the pattern has been going on.
This is the difference between proactive pastoral care and finding out someone left your church six months after they stopped coming. Flock gives you the early warning so you can reach out while it still matters.
Learn more about At-Risk Detection
Intercessory Prayer Wall — Elevated Prayers Curated for Your Eyes
Group leaders hear things that never make it to the Sunday morning prayer list. A marriage falling apart. A job loss. A health scare. These are the prayers that need more than a small group — they need pastoral attention.
With Flock, leaders can "elevate" a prayer request to the Intercessory Prayer Wall. This wall is visible only to pastoral staff. It collects the most serious prayer needs from across all your groups into one place.
Flock's AI also discovers clusters — patterns like "five families praying about financial hardship this month" — so you can see emerging needs across the whole church. You can add private follow-up notes to each prayer, creating a care timeline that only staff can see.
Learn more about the Intercessory Prayer Wall
Insights Dashboard — Trends Over Time, Not Just Snapshots
The Insights Dashboard goes beyond today's numbers. It shows you trends: Is attendance growing or declining? Are more members submitting prayers? How has group health changed over the past three months?
You can drill down from the organization level to a specific campus, ministry, group, or individual member. The Prayer Portal shows prayer volume, sentiment trends, and common topics across your church — so you know what your people are carrying.
When you see five groups praying about job loss in the same month, that is not a coincidence. That is a signal. Flock surfaces those signals so you can respond with intention — whether that means a sermon series, a resource fair, or targeted pastoral care.
Learn more about the Insights Dashboard
Multi-Campus Support — One View Across All Campuses, Ministries, and Groups
If your church spans multiple campuses, Flock organizes everything under a clear hierarchy: Organization, Campus, Ministry, Group. You can see the big picture across all campuses or drill into a single campus to understand what is happening there.
Campus pastors see their own campus. Ministry directors see their ministry. Group leaders see their group. And you see everything — with the right level of detail at every level.
No more cobbling together reports from different campus pastors. No more wondering if your east campus small groups are as healthy as your west campus. It is all in one place.
Learn more about Multi-Campus Support
Lead with Insight, Not Intuition
You became a pastor to shepherd people, and your instincts are good. But instinct alone cannot track 30 groups, 500 members, and hundreds of prayer requests. Flock gives you the visibility to lead with both heart and data — so no one slips through the cracks.
Set up your pastoral dashboard — every feature is available on every plan.