We’ve spent our lives in technology, and in church.

What is Churchory?

Churchory is church management software for small and mid-size churches. Start free with Core (your people directory, families, roles and church-wide email and push), then add only the products you need, like groups, events, Sunday serving and check-in, kids, care, chat and voting, or get everything with Churchory One.

It is built and supported directly by its founders, husband and wife Steven and Ivana Chen. The two of us write the code, answer the email, and get on the call when your church sets up its app.

Why this exists

Every church we know runs on four or five different pieces of software, none of which were built to talk to each other, and one very patient administrator who knows which one to trust. The directory says one thing, the giving platform says another, the check-in system has its own list of children, and the actual conversation is happening in eleven separate group texts.

None of that is anyone’s fault. It’s what happens when a church buys the right tool for each problem over fifteen years. But the cost of it lands on the smallest teams: the churches with one staff member and a lot of volunteers, who can least afford to spend their week reconciling systems.

So we built the thing we kept wishing existed: every part of church life on one directory, split into products so a church pays only for the parts it actually uses.

How we work

We ship constantly. When a church asks “could it do this?”, that conversation goes straight to the people who write the code, and a meaningful share of what’s in Churchory today started as a question from a pastor who assumed the answer would be no.

You’ll never be handed to an account manager. Ask a question and you’re talking to the people who built the thing you’re asking about, which is why answers tend to arrive the same day, and sometimes arrive as a shipped change.

How do we treat your church’s data?

Your church’s records are encrypted in transit and at rest, on managed infrastructure in the United States, and separation between churches is enforced by database security rules on every read and write, underneath our application code, not inside it. We don’t sell church data or use it for third-party advertising. A church can delete its account and its data from settings at any time, without asking us. The security page has the details.

Who is Churchory for?

Small and mid-size churches, and the people who keep them running: pastors, church administrators, ministry leaders and the many volunteers who do those jobs without the title. See who Churchory is for and churches like yours.

Who we are

We’re lifelong technologists. Between us we’ve spent more than twenty years building software at some of the largest technology companies in the world, the kind of place where a release reaches millions of people and there is no margin for sloppiness. That’s the standard we hold Churchory to.

We’re also the people using it. We’ve been in church our whole lives and have served in leadership on several teams over the years, so we know how much of that work runs on tools that were never built to work together: a check-in system here, a group text there, the same family entered into a third system.

Churchory exists in the gap between those two things: what church software could be if someone crafted it properly, and what churches are actually asked to pay for it. Those costs keep climbing, and they land hardest on the churches with the least room in the budget. We think the craft we spent two decades learning belongs here, at a price a church can plan around.

If you’d like to talk, book 45 minutes or email [email protected].