Getting things ready for the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting in Birmingham this June?
Consider getting all your resources in one place with the SBC Annual Meetings app. In 2018 nearly 6,000 people used the app, up 45% from 2017. It’s a handy tool that offers you ways to plan your own schedule for the meeting and bookmark things you don’t want to miss.
From the app’s dashboard you’ll be able to:
Build a personalized schedule of the sessions and events you’d like to attend.
Personalized schedule
Browse available sessions by date, type and more. From there you can add them to your personalized schedule if you like by tapping a star icon.
Discover what exhibits you can visit in the exhibit hall. Browse them by name, category or location and bookmark them in the app if you like. (For more about Alabama ministries who will be there see “Alabama ministries, companies among exhibit hall booths at SBC.”)
Access maps of the exhibit hall and leave notes or pins if needed.
Find PDFs of the annual meeting program and exhibit hall layout.
Access a list of meeting attendees who have given the app permission to add them to a viewable list. You can send friend requests for your app from this list.
View a live feed of tweets and Facebook posts relevant to the annual meeting.
Browse a list of Birmingham-area churches grouped by local Baptist association.
View SBC-related news alerts and alerts from friends.
Apply the “Locate Me” feature to find out what’s around you and how to get to each event.
Retrieve content from Baptist Press, SBC Life and TalkCP.
Use closed captioning during the meetings (available this year in 21 languages — Arabic, traditional Chinese, English, Filipino, French, German, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Ukrainian and Vietnamese).
From the settings menu you’ll be able to do things like:
Build a profile to engage with other attendees and help your friends find you.
Sync your data (like your schedule and bookmarks) between multiple devices if needed.
You can download the app on your mobile device by accessing the App Store, Google Play or by visiting app.core-apps.com/sbc_am2019. You can also download it by scanning the QR code on this page with your mobile device.
If you’ve got the SBC Annual Meetings app already from a past year, you can download this year’s update by going to the Home Dashboard in the app and click on the settings icon at the top of the page. Scroll down to option “Exit to Show List,” then under “Upcoming Meetings,” click on the 2019 SBC Annual Meeting and click download. (Grace Thornton)
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