Get your church off the group text.
A channel for every ministry and every group, direct messages, and moderation you actually control — plus email and SMS for the things that have to land. This is the most-used surface in the product, and it’s built like it.
You’re not competing with other church apps.
You’re competing with a group text, a paper bulletin, and a Facebook group. If the conversation isn’t in your app, nothing else in your app gets opened.
Eleven group texts
One per ministry, none searchable, all of them missing whoever changed their number.
No oversight, at all
Nobody can see how an adult volunteer is talking to a student. That’s not a feature gap — it’s a safeguarding problem.
Announcements nobody reads
The email goes to 400 people and 62 open it. The bulletin goes in the recycling.
Chat & Communication, in detail.
A channel for every ministry, every group, every event
Members browse channels and join the ones that are theirs. Groups get a channel automatically. Everything you expect from a real messaging product is there — because if it isn’t, people go back to the group text within a week.
- Channels, group chats, and direct messages
- Mentions, replies, edits, pins, reactions, typing indicators, seen-by
- @everyone for the things that genuinely are for everyone
- Photos, files, GIFs, and documents, staged before you send
- Per-chat mute, unread badges mirrored onto the app icon
Moderation, and a record of it
Name moderators per conversation — a small group leader moderates their own group’s chat and the channels they created, and nothing else. Administrators have a chat audit view for the moments when someone has to look. It exists because youth ministry and adult volunteers share a platform, and pretending otherwise isn’t responsible.
- Per-conversation moderators, scoped to what they lead
- A church-wide chat audit view for administrators
- Moderation powers granted through the role matrix, not handed out ad hoc
Email and SMS for the things that have to land
Chat is where the conversation lives; email and text are how you reach the people who aren’t in it yet. Send to the whole church, one group, or one team — and let every person choose, per category, how they want to hear from you.
- Church-wide or targeted email and SMS
- A per-person notification preference matrix — they pick the channel
- Automatic reminders for events, serving slots, and RSVPs
- Push notifications that deep-link straight to the right screen
A back room for leaders, and an open floor for everyone
Two rooms most church tools don’t have. The Leader Forum is a discussion board only your leaders can see — questions, wins, and hard weeks, away from the people they lead. Open Floor runs live Q&A sessions with audience submission and a present mode you can put on the screen at a members’ meeting.
- Leader Forum: post and reply, with moderation for the people who need it
- Open Floor: live Q&A, audience submission, projector-ready present mode
- Public Q&A links so people can submit before the meeting starts
- A church document library — handbooks, forms, Drive links, share links
No feature tiers, no add-ons, no upsell.
Where this connects
Every part of Churchory shares one directory, one permission system, and one price.
