How do I get plugged into the community, and how does it work?

Every member belongs to four groups at once, from the owners down the street to owners across the country. Each one does a different job. Here's how they work and how to join.

1. Your local hub. The owners you can actually meet in person: coffee, lunch, prayer, and sending each other work. A hub opens once 25 members are based in an area, and it reaches about 50 miles around its city. Not every area has one yet. If yours doesn't, your statewide chat is your home base until it does.

2. Your statewide chat. Every member has one, for the state their business is in. It's where you trade referrals, find trusted Christian businesses across the state, ask for advice, and pray for one another.

3. Your region. The country is split into six regions: Northeast, Midwest, Southeast, South Central, Mountain West and Pacific. Each region has its own online community with a regional chat open to everyone in it, for encouragement, news, and referrals beyond your state. Your statewide and hub chats sit inside the same community.

4. The national Facebook group. The room for owners everywhere: introduce your business, share what you're working on, post your wins, and encourage one another.

Where to find them. Sign in and open Community in your dashboard at locatefaith.com/dashboard/community. Your groups are listed closest first, with a "Join and say hello" button on each one. The next group opens up once you've joined the one before it, except the Facebook group, which you can join any time.

A few things worth knowing:

• Your groups are matched to your business address. If your address is wrong, your groups will be too, so fix it under Profile in My Business.
• The invites are only shown to signed-in members, so every group stays made up of people who are actually listed.
• The monthly Business Connect call is separate from all four. It's online and open to every member, wherever you are.

Once you're in a group, introduce yourself: what you do, where you are, and how you could help. That's how referrals start.

If a link doesn't work or you end up in the wrong state or hub, tell us your business name and we'll sort it out.