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title: "Example: Add new people"
description: "In this article, we'll show you how to use *Automatic Membership* to fill a group with all new people who, for example, have attended a service at your congregation for the first time or have contacted you via your website.…"
url: "https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/automatic-membership/example-add-new-people/"
updated: "2026-03-09"
category: Groups / My Group / Automatic Membership
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# Example: Add new people

In this article, we'll show you how to use *Automatic Membership* to fill a group with all new people who, for example, have attended a service at your congregation for the first time or have contacted you via your website. You can use this group to keep an eye on new people and offer them information and contact options that they can then use to find their way into your congregation.

## 1. Select group

Call up an existing group in which you would like to summarize the new visitors to your congrgation or create a new group "Add new people".

**Note**

For this group, you could also set up a routine that automatically sends an email with helpful information about your congegration or contact details to every person who is added to the group.

## 2. Call up settings for *automatic membership*

In the settings for this group, you can access the settings for automatic membership.

## 3. Set personal filter

Use the plus symbol to add filters to the *person*. You select these as follows:

[![Groups - Settings - Automatic membership - Filter for people](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Groups_Settings_Automatic-membership_Filter-for-people-1024x431.png)](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Groups_Settings_Automatic-membership_Filter-for-people.png)

## 4. Set actions

This is how you set the actions:

[![Groups - Automatic membership - Example New contact Actions](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Groups_Automatic-membership_Example-New-contact-Actions-1024x613.png)](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Groups_Automatic-membership_Example-New-contact-Actions.png)

## 5. Activate execution

Finally, you either execute the actions you have defined once manually or you activate automatic execution, which then always runs when the *scheduled tasks* are executed.

[![Groups - Settings - Automatic membership - activate execution](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Groups_Settings_Automatic-membership_activate-execution-1024x146.png)](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Groups_Settings_Automatic-membership_activate-execution.png)

## Article to read more

- [Understanding automatic membership](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/automatic-membership/understanding-automatic-membership/)
- [Example: Networking people](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/automatic-membership/example-networking-people/)
- [Example: Record seminar participation](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/automatic-membership/example-record-seminar-participation/)