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 want new volunteers to feel ready for their first Sunday. Right now, the details they need might be spread across emails and shared files.
You can build a small app that puts it all in one place,...
You have a big decision in front of your church. It might be a building project or a new staff role. You want to think it through well before you bring it to your elders or board.
An AI board of advi...
The board meets this week. Your report is a Google Doc, and the budget is a Google Sheet.
You copy a section of the report into Claude and ask it to tighten things up. Then you paste the new version ...
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 staff is going to a conference this spring. You have their names in a spreadsheet.
You open the registration page. You copy a name from the sheet and paste it into the form, then do the same wit...
It’s Monday morning. Before staff meeting, you open the attendance sheet and the event sign-up sheet.
You copy the numbers into a doc and compare them to the week before. Then you write two lines abo...
The weekly staff update goes out tomorrow morning.
You open Claude and type the same directions you typed last week. Start with the wins, then list the calendar. Keep it short and warm.
Claude write...
A volunteer asks what time setup starts for the fall retreat. You know your team decided this.
You check Slack first. Then you search your email. Then you open the shared drive and scroll through a f...
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...
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...
