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 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 ...
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...
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...
Every pastor is running a second job as a librarian. Sermon notes live in one app, counseling follow-ups sit in a notebook, and that article you meant to reference in three weeks is buried somewhere i...
People on your team are probably already using AI. Some have questions for you, and a few are hoping you won't ask any questions back.
That puts you in a leadership spot. When your staff says "LLM" o...
You have 13 weeks left in 2026. October 1 starts the last quarter of the year, and the busiest stretch of the church calendar comes with it.
Advent starts Sunday, November 29. Christmas Eve falls on ...
Imagine opening your laptop each morning to a single short page that already pulled together what you need for the day: the 3 things on your calendar that actually matter, the emails that need a real ...
Every year I help run the State of AI in the Church survey. Three years in, the question church leaders ask me has changed completely.
Here's where things stand in the 2026 results:
- 93.5% of churc ...
Most pastors run into the same wall with AI: too many tabs, too little time, and no idea where to start. The tools are real and the hype is loud, and somewhere in the noise is a handful of apps that w...
