Built for the executive pastor who runs the engine room.
Your church management system stores the data; it does not do the work. Pastor Center is the assistant layer that runs follow-up, connection cards, and admin on top of Planning Center — so the operation runs without burning out your staff.
— Operations, automatedKeep your ChMS. Lose the busywork.
A database is passive: it remembers the guest but does not write the welcome; it logs the card but does not enter it. The assistant layer closes that gap on top of the system you already run. The full case is in the church management guide.
Guest follow-up that never slips
Drafts and schedules personal follow-up with first-time guests in the short window that matters, so warmth does not depend on whoever remembered.
Connection cards, entered for you
A photo of a card becomes a contact record with a follow-up task automatically — the Monday data-entry pile handled before anyone sits down to it.
One platform, fewer invoices
Research, media, gifts assessments, and admin on a single platform — a real path to consolidating the stack of subscriptions you are managing now.
— What changesWhat an executive pastor gets back.
Staff hours
The repetitive admin that fills your team's week runs itself, freeing people for real work.
Nothing slips
Guests followed up, cards entered, tasks routed — the operational floor stops leaking.
A simpler budget
Fewer overlapping subscriptions as functions consolidate onto one platform.
— Common questionsWhat executive pastors ask before they try Pastor Center
Do we have to replace Planning Center?
What admin does it actually automate?
Can it consolidate our tools?
Executive pastor, let the system do the work.
7-day free trial. Connect Planning Center and watch the follow-up and admin start running themselves.