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.
Your lead pastor wants options for the staff retreat by the next staff meeting. They want places within a two-hour drive, dates that work, and a rough sense of what each one offers.
That’s a whole af...
Your finance lead asks how the youth ministry is tracking against budget. You know the answer is in a spreadsheet. You don’t know which folder.
So you dig. You open several files with almost the same...
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 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...
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...
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...
Your AI writing sounds generic because you keep giving it nothing to work with.
Type "write a welcome email for new visitors" into ChatGPT and you get a welcome email for a church. Any church. Warm, ...
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'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...
