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.
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 ...
Most people visit your website before they ever visit your church. They find you on a Sunday morning from the parking lot, or on a Tuesday night when life has gotten heavy, and they make a quick, quie...
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 use AI the way you'd use a stranger at a bus stop. You ask a question, get an answer, and walk away. Next time, you start over from scratch, re-explaining who you are and what you need. I...
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...
Handing your staff AI tools changes little on its own. What changes a church is culture, the habits and permission that make good use of AI simply how your team works.
What an AI Culture Looks Like
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AI training is one of the cheapest high-return investments a church can make right now, if you buy the right kind. Here is a simple way to think about the cost.
What You Are Actually Paying For
The ...
You do not need a five-year AI strategy. You need ninety days. Here is a simple roadmap that takes a church leader from curious to confident, one month at a time.
Days 1 to 30: Learn
Keep the first ...
A secular AI course and church-built AI training teach the same tools. What surrounds the tools is where they part ways, and that gap decides whether your team can use what they learn.
The Tools Are ...
AI fluency is four transferable skills. Master them and you stay capable as the tools change, instead of starting over every time a new app ships.
The Four Skills
Delegation. Knowing what to hand to...
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...
Getting yourself to use AI is the easy part. Getting your whole staff on board is the real work, and it is a leadership problem more than a technology one.
Why Teams Stall
Every staff has the same s...
