Ministry ChatChat with your ChMS. Engage your church.
Ministry Chat connects to Planning Center and turns the data you already have — check-ins, serving schedules, groups, giving, notes — into one thing you've never had: a clear, weekly answer to “who needs me, and what do I do next?”
A ChMS keeps records. Ministry Chat does the work.
Most church software tells you something's wrong, then leaves you to figure out the fix. Ministry Chat surfaces who needs you — and hands you the next step, already written.
Up and running in three steps.
Connect Planning Center
Sign in once. Ministry Chat syncs your people, services, groups, giving, and check-ins in minutes. Your data stays yours.
It reads your whole church
Every Monday it scores everyone, surfaces who's drifting or ready, and lines up the week's opportunities — no spreadsheets, no dashboards to decode.
You approve — it acts
Pick a next step and it drafts the message in your voice, then sends through Planning Center or Text In Church. Writes stay off until you say go.
Open the app. Just start talking.
I'm your Planning Center assistant. Ask me about your people, services, volunteers, or groups — or snap a connect card and I'll enter it for you. A few ways to start:
Like texting a sharp associate pastor — you ask, and it answers with names from your actual church, then drafts the message, logs the call, or builds the plan for you.
Ready-to-use prompts, grouped by role.
Tap a role, then a prompt — Barnabas runs with your real church data.
Opening mid-2026 to a small group of churches.
Get notified at launchFree to join the waitlist · We email you when your spot opensEvery person gets a score out of 4.
Built from five measured signals pulled straight from Planning Center. People sort into buckets from 0/4 (leaning out the door) to 4/4 (fully plugged in). Your job is simple: move people left to right.
Scores refresh automatically every Monday — and you can search the entire Planning Center directory and score anyone on the spot.
Tap a person. Get their whole story — and the next step.
The most relevant next steps are highlighted as suggested, based on which signals are missing. Tap one and Barnabas opens, finds the details, and writes the message in your voice. You just review and send.
Log a connect point in 10 seconds
Call, text, visit, or meeting. It lights up the Contact signal, shows the whole team this person is being cared for, and saves as a note on their Planning Center profile.
Assign to the right staff member
One at a time, or bulk-assign dozens at once, so follow-up has an owner — and ⭐ follow anyone you want to keep an eye on.
Add to-dos
Tasks roll up into your 90-day plans, so nothing you decided to do quietly disappears.
Every guest gets followed up with. Every drifting member surfaces before they're gone. Every leader opens Engage and knows exactly who to call — and never stares at a blank message wondering what to write.
It doesn't just point at problems. It hands you the fix.
Most church software is good at telling you something's wrong — a volunteer declined, a family stopped showing up, a new guest never got a call — then leaves you to figure out what to do. Opportunities is the opposite: every card is an open door for ministry, surfaced live from Planning Center, with the next move already worked out.
A decline isn't just flagged red — it comes with people who've served that team, are free this Sunday, and ready to be asked. A new family appears with a welcome message already drafted. Approve, skip, or dismiss in one tap — and when you approve, a chat slides in with the message written and ready.
Then it actually does it — three ways
Surfacing the opportunity 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 Text In Church
Planning Center can't send custom texts and emails — Text In Church can. Connect it and the message actually goes out to the person or group, straight from Ministry Chat.
Nothing ever reaches a real person until you're ready. A single master writes switch governs every channel — Planning Center and Text In Church. While it's off, click around, approve cards, and learn the whole system with zero risk of anything leaving the building. Flip it on when you trust it.
Want this running in your church? Be first in line.
Get notified at launchFree to join the waitlist · We email you when your spot opensOne platform. Every leader gets their own view.
Lead Pastor
The whole church on one screen. Are we growing or quietly shrinking? Is serving healthy against who actually shows up on the weekend? Every Monday Barnabas tells you the story behind the numbers and the few moves that matter most — so you walk into staff meeting already knowing the conversation.
Executive Pastor
Department health, campus by campus: open seats, bench depth, utilization, and which teams are quietly stretched too thin. Barnabas equips and coaches your current leaders — it never tells you to move or replace anyone; that stays your call. You get the honest picture and the 90-day plan to fix it.
Worship Pastor
Sunday comes every seven days — Ministry Chat gets you there faster. Copy last week's set and tweak it, drag songs into the order you want, and pull up inline chord charts that transpose to any key with one tap. Ask Barnabas to build a set around a theme or key and it drafts the lineup. Then look past the platform: see which team members are quietly burning out or dropping off the schedule, who's ready to be developed into a leader, and which bench players to call before you're scrambling Saturday night.
Kids Pastor
Volunteer gaps before Sunday, not at 8:55am. See which families have stopped checking in, which serving spots are unfilled, and who on your bench is ready to be asked. Barnabas drafts the recruiting text — you just hit send.
Youth Pastor
The student who stopped showing up three weeks ago surfaces now. Track which students are attending, serving, and in a group — and get next steps to re-engage the ones leaning out, plus the families to loop in.
Connection Pastor
This is your home base. First-time guests, second-timers, people ready for a group, and the ones drifting toward the door — all sorted, all with a drafted next step. Assign follow-up to the right person, then watch it actually happen instead of dying in a spreadsheet.
Department Heads
Your team, your people, your next 10 moves. See who's serving, who's slipping, and who's ready to step up. Barnabas builds you a 90-day development plan — recruiting, training, scheduling — with real names to engage first.
Administrator
One clean connection to Planning Center — no exports, no stitching CSVs. Provider-agnostic giving and people sources, role-based views so each leader sees only their people, and token/cost tracking so you always know what it's running. Set it up once; it refreshes itself every Monday.
Multisite and large-staff ready.
Built for churches with more than one campus and more than a few staff. Everything rolls up by campus, respects who sees what, and gives every leader their own seat — without turning into a stack of spreadsheets.
Campus by campus
Every score, gap, and opportunity rolls up per campus — and across the whole org. Filter to one site or see them all in one view.
Role-based views
Each leader sees only the people they're responsible for. Your exec pastor sees the whole picture; a campus director sees their campus.
Every leader included
One price for your whole church — by average weekly attendance, not per seat. Everyone on staff gets their own login at no extra cost. Assign follow-up to the right person — one at a time, or bulk-assign dozens at once.
Roll out safely
One master writes switch stays off org-wide until you're ready. Launch Ministry Chat one campus and one team at a time, with zero risk.
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
What changes by next Sunday.
First-time guests get followed up with — every week, by name, before they disappear.
Fewer people slip away — the ones leaning out surface before they're gone, not after.
Empty serving seats get filled — with the right people, identified for you.
Leaders stop guessing — they open the app and know exactly who to call today.
Ten minutes, not ten hours — the weekly "who needs care?" meeting is already done.
Be first in line.
Ministry Chat is opening to a small group of churches. Drop your email and we'll reach out when your spot is ready.
Connects to Planning Center in minutes · Your data stays yours