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Join an Open Group from the Public Site

Lesson 17 of 21 · 0:51Updated Oct 2026

What you will learn

A brand-new visitor to your website can join an open group with one short form and no account. Here's what they see from the Group Finder to the welcome email. TimelyChurch is church management software, learn more at timely.church.

Go deeper: Public Group Finder in the Knowledge Base.

Read the transcript

Let's sign a visitor up for a group. On Find Your Group, we'll open New to Grace?. It's open, with seats left. Click Join This Group. New here? Stay on this tab. Type your name and email. Name and email are all it needs, and phone and a note to the leaders are optional. Click Join Group. You'll see this same short message whatever happens next, and your email tells you the rest. For an open group, that email says welcome, with a one-click link into your church portal.