Church Admin Plugin

Google Calendar Sync

Keep Google Calendar. Show it in your church app.

Your team already knows Google Calendar. It’s free, it works on every phone, and everyone from the vicar to the volunteer rota coordinator can add an event in seconds. But your congregation lives in your church app, and double-entering every event is how things get missed.

Google Calendar to Church Admin connects the two. Add or change an event in Google Calendar, and it appears in your Church Admin calendar, and so in your Church Admin Premium app, automatically.

How it works

  1. Paste in your calendar’s private/public iCal link. There’s no Google sign-in and no API key to manage.
  2. Choose a category and how far ahead to sync.
  3. That’s it. Every hour, your events are brought across. Need it now? Press “Sync now”.

Why churches like it

  • Edit in one place. Your team keeps using the tool they already know.
  • Your app stays current. New services, rescheduled meetings and cancelled events flow through without anyone re-typing them.
  • Repeating events just work. Weekly services, first-Sunday communion, fortnightly groups and annual events all come across with their repeat pattern, and cancelled or moved dates are respected.
  • Time zones and all-day events are handled. An 8pm event in Google is an 8pm event in your app.
  • Your own events are safe. Anything you’ve created directly in Church Admin is never changed or deleted. Only events that came from Google are managed by the sync.

Who it’s for

Churches that:

  • already run their diary in Google Calendar and want to keep doing so,
  • use the Church Admin plugin with the Premium app, and
  • want one source of truth instead of two calendars drifting apart.

Good to know

  • It’s one-way. Google Calendar is the master. If you edit a synced event inside Church Admin, the next sync will overwrite your change, so make edits in Google.
  • Updates aren’t instant. Changes arrive on the next hourly sync, or straight away when you press “Sync now”.
  • Keep your link private. Your calendar’s secret iCal address works like a password.

Get started in five minutes

Install the plugin.

Click on Settings>GCal → Church Admin

Paste in your calendar’s link, press Sync. Your next Sunday’s events could be in the app before the kettle boils.

Google Calendar to Church Admin Sync
£5.00

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google. Church Admin Premium is required for the app.