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.
A new AI tool crosses your desk every week now. A volunteer found one that transcribes counseling sessions. A staff member wants to use an app that writes kids' curriculum. Someone forwarded a tool th...
Your church needs an AI policy. Your staff and volunteers may already use AI tools for emails, slides and planning. A policy tells them what is allowed.
You may not know what to put in one. A useful ...
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...
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...
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 it in your feed already. A friend posts about texting their new AI assistant like it's a coworker, and it books the reservation, answers the email, or handles the errand without t...
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 ...
Granola can use anonymized data from your church staff meetings to improve its AI. One setting stops it. Turning it off takes about a minute.
Granola is an AI meeting assistant that can save church s...
A church AI policy does not need to be long. It needs to cover ten things. Here are the sections every workable policy includes, in the order they belong.
The 10 Essential Sections
- Purpose. Why you ...
Every church using AI hits the same question five times a week: can I use this tool? A simple traffic-light system answers it once, for everyone, and ends the back-and-forth.
Why the Questions Keep C...
Your church already has people using AI.
You just don't know it.
Your volunteers are using ChatGPT to write announcements.
Your youth pastor drafted last week's small group content with it.
Someone o...
The biggest AI risk in your church is not a robot preacher. It is a volunteer pasting a counseling note into a free chatbot that learns from everything it is given.
The Risk in Plain Terms
Many publ...
