AI For Churches: Resources & Articles
Practical AI insights for pastors, ministry leaders, and church communicators who want to lead well in a world that's changing fast. Curated by Kenny Jahng, founder of AI For Church Leaders and editor of ChurchTechToday.com.
There is a specific kind of church problem that no off-the-shelf software solves. A sign-up sheet that works exactly the way your ministry works. A little tool that turns your event details into a for...
You know the spreadsheet I mean. It’s the volunteer schedule with tab after tab. One person on staff understands it, and that person is on vacation.
Or it’s the budget request form your ministry lead...
When churches finally write an AI policy, they almost always write it for staff. The pastors, the communications director, the office manager, the people on payroll. And then they hand the actual work...
You type short prompts because typing is slow. Short prompts get you weaker answers from Claude.
When you type, you cut corners. You leave out the background, who the message is for, and what a good ...
You open a new chat with Claude. Before you ask anything, you type out your job.
You explain your church. You explain the project you’re working on.
You did the same thing yesterday. You’ll do it ag...
Ask 10 churches why they gave up on AI for writing, and most will describe the same thing. The output was fine, technically. It was also generic. It sounded like every other church, or worse, like a b...
Every church leader knows what the back half of fall brings. Thanksgiving gatherings, Advent planning, Christmas Eve services, and year-end giving all land on top of each other, right as the groups an...
I started to connect AI to my email a while back. I got partway in, had some doubts, and stopped.
I haven't finished working out my own setup yet. If you've felt that same hesitation, pay attention t...
Most pastors who try AI for sermon prep quit for the same reason. They ask it to help with a sermon, it hands back something competent and completely soulless, and they think, "That is not me, and it ...
At some point, usually after a staff member drafts a newsletter with ChatGPT or a pastor uses AI to help organize a sermon, a church runs into a question it did not expect to face: do we need to tell ...
You’ve probably seen the word “Effort” in Claude’s model menu. Maybe you left it alone. Maybe you turned it all the way up because more sounded better.
It’s worth 5 minutes to learn what it does. The...
Here is the frustration with AI image tools. The technology is astonishing, and most church staff still stare at the blank prompt box with no idea what to type. So they write "make a graphic for our w...
