EngageEvery person in your church is somewhere between 0 and 5.
Attending. Contacted. Group. Serving. Giving, if your church turns it on. Five signals, pulled straight from Planning Center, scored for every person you have on file.
Dan is a 1. He shows up most weeks, serves nowhere, belongs to no group, and nobody on staff has spoken to him in seven months. You have people like Dan right now. Engage can name every one of them — and it already knows what to say.
“Every growing church needs this.”
Josh Howerton · Lead Pastor, Lakepointe Church
“Engagement is the new attendance.”— Carey Nieuwhof
Every person gets a score out of 5.
Built from five measured signals pulled straight from Planning Center. People sort into buckets from 0/5 (leaning out the door) to 5/5 (fully plugged in). Your job is simple: move people left to right — because everyone is just a few personal asks away from being fully engaged in the life of your church.
Data syncs the moment something happens in Planning Center, with a full refresh every morning. Search the entire directory and score anyone on the spot.
A kid's check-in counts for their parents, so families aren't penalized. The giving signal is your church's call — on or off by permission and conviction, a simple yes/no, and never an amount.
Milestones like baptism and membership are tracked too — measured alongside the five signals, not inside the score.
Watch the introduction to Engage.
Two and a half minutes: what Engage is, what it watches, and what it hands your team every morning.
Meet Dan.
Dan isn't real, but you know him. He shows up most weeks, serves nowhere, belongs to no group, and hasn't heard from anyone on staff in seven months. He's a 1. Here's the week that changes.
The morning brief surfaces him.
Engage re-scored the whole church overnight. Dan's card is near the top of your brief: attending, but no team, no group, no contact in 210 days. Every campus rolls up, sorted so whoever most needs you is first.
The People page — the whole church, scored and sortedTap his name. His whole story is one card.
Signals, campus, how long he's been around, and the next steps already lit up as suggested, based on what's missing. For Dan: invite to a small group. Eight next steps are built in — from recruiting to a team, to a gifts test, to asking about baptism.
The person card — score, signals, suggested next stepsBarnabas finds the group and tees up the ask.
Tap the suggestion. Barnabas checks life stage, campus, and open seats, picks the groups that actually fit, and drafts the invitation in your voice. The ask is still yours — it's just ready before your coffee is.
Barnabas matching groups and drafting the inviteYou change one word and send it.
Every message waits for your approval. Send it from your own phone, or let it go out through Planning Center or Clearstream. Nothing leaves the building until you say go.
Ten seconds to log it.
The touch lights up Dan's Contact signal and saves as a note on his Planning Center profile — no double entry. The whole team can see he's being cared for. Assign the follow-up an owner, add a to-do, and it rolls into your 90-day plan.
Dan's a 4.
He said yes to the group. The group asked him onto a team. That's the whole product: one person, moved right. Now multiply it by everyone on your file.
Everyone on your staff has a Dan.
Different people, different moments, same question: who needs me, and what do I say? Eight people asked in one week — none of them by accident.
🧭 Lead Pastor · Steve, 1:50pm
Steve asks about Becky's dad himself. Engage found the group before he asked, made the introduction, and started resourcing the family before he sat down. Phil joined Dave's group three weeks later. 2 → 3
Eight seats. One system. Engage does the work. The pastor makes the ask.
The more your team uses it, the better it knows your church.
AI is only as good as what it knows, and most tools start from nothing every time you open them. Engage doesn't. Every time someone on your staff logs a call, notes a conversation, or records a visit, it goes into one place.
Your kids pastor knows
the family stopped coming after the move.
Your worship pastor knows
who's been carrying too much.
Your connection pastor knows
who already got a call this month.
None of that used to leave the person who knew it. Now it's all in one place, and Engage reasons over the whole picture.
Six months in, it knows your church better than any one person on your staff does. Not because it's clever — because your team taught it.
One safe place for your team to work with your church's data.
Your data stays yours. It's never used to train AI models, and nothing is retained by anyone outside your church.
Your admin decides who sees what
Campus by campus, role by role. Giving amounts are visible only to your giving admin.
Everything is logged
Every question asked and every message sent is logged, so you always know what happened and who did it.
Nothing sends until you flip one switch
A single master writes switch governs every channel. While it's off, click around, approve cards, and learn the whole system with zero risk. Roll out one campus and one team at a time.
This is the fence. Your team gets to move fast with real church data — without it ending up somewhere you can't see.
Live in minutes, not months.
No 90-day onboarding. Connect Planning Center and whatever giving platform you use — your data is in within minutes. Add your staff and go. Every major ChMS is close behind.
Connect your stack
Sign in to Planning Center once — people, services, groups, and check-ins sync in minutes. Giving connects from whatever platform you use. Your data stays yours.
Add your team
Every staff member gets their own login with role-based views. Connect Clearstream if you text. No per-seat math.
Go
Open the brief and start. It's fast and intuitive — built to be picked up, not trained into.
Rolling this out to a big staff that needs buy-in? We'll run the integration and training with you — over Zoom, or onsite for a $3,000 travel fee — so the whole team starts together, not just the pastor who found it.
Engage is available now — start your free trial and be one of the first churches in.
Cancel anytime · Demo: 25 minutes on your own church · $10 Starbucks card after the call ☕The week's work, already triaged.
A volunteer declines Sunday's slot, and five people who've served that team, free this week, are lined up to ask. A new family appears with the welcome message already drafted. Assign it, handle it, mark it done.
Then it actually does it — three ways
Surfacing the follow-up is half of it. Making it happen is the part nobody else does. You choose how:
You do it, and log it
Barnabas drafts the text, email, or invitation in your voice. You send it from your own phone, then log it in 10 seconds — which lights up that person's Contact signal so the whole team sees they've been cared for.
Through Planning Center
Approve, and it goes back into the system you already run on — assigns the follow-up, fills the spot, and saves the touch as a note on the person's Planning Center profile. No double entry, no exports.
Through Clearstream
Planning Center can't send custom texts — Clearstream can. Connect it and the message actually goes out to the person or group, straight from Engage.
Integrations today: Planning Center + Clearstream · Gmail coming next — with every major ChMS and giving platform on the immediate roadmap, landing in the next few weeks.
Full agentic administration, when you're ready.
Right now, Engage does the triage and you make the calls. That's on purpose — you shouldn't hand a machine your congregation before you've watched it work.
But as you get comfortable, you'll be able to hand off the parts you've seen it do right a hundred times: guest texts, group invitations, filling the serving gaps. You approve the categories once instead of one message at a time, then review what it did. The agents do the work. You still approve the asks.
That's hours back every week — hours you can now spend out of the office and with people, making the personal asks that no one else can make. Some churches will push go in month two. Some never will, and use Engage just to know who to call. That works too.
“As a church grows, caring for people gets more complicated. PastorCenter helps leaders see who is getting connected, who is drifting, and who may need someone to reach out.”
One price for your whole church.
Priced by your average weekly attendance — not per seat. Every staff member gets their own login, included. No per-user math, no setup fee to start.
Unlimited users on every plan · Annual billing saves 2 months · 10,000+ attendance — talk to us
One price for your whole church — see it running on your own data.
Cancel anytime · Demo: 25 minutes on your own church · $10 Starbucks card after the call ☕Not ready to jump in? Steal the playbook first.
The Church Engagement Course is the thinking behind everything on this page — the five levels of engagement, why the personal ask beats every announcement, and how to win a new person's first 90 days. Taught by Jon-Michael Sherman. Every lesson lands on a piece of Engage.
Start the free courseGet Engage running in your church.
Somewhere in your church this week, there's a Dan. Next Sunday, you'll know his name.
Engage is rolling out to its first churches now. Start your 7-day free trial and connect your Planning Center in minutes — or book a demo and we'll show you your own church, scored and sorted.
7-day free trial, cancel anytime · Connects to Planning Center + your giving platform in minutes · Your data stays yours