Our approach
No tool vendor pays for placement in these guides, and any commercial relationship we take on will be disclosed plainly and will never reorder a recommendation. The editorial position is consistent across the site: AI belongs in a church's language logistics — bulletins, announcements, scheduling, summaries — under written policy and human review, and it does not belong in pastoral presence: counsel, grief, discipline, or the preached word. Where a guide takes a side, that is the side it takes.
Who we serve
Senior pastors, associate ministers, communications directors, and volunteer coordinators in congregations of many sizes — including, pointedly, the readers who are skeptical of this whole subject. Several guides exist mostly to help a leader say no clearly and kindly.
What these guides will not do
No pay-for-placement rankings, no undisclosed commercial links, no claims that AI grows churches. Attendance and giving outcomes depend on ministry, not software, and any site telling a pastor otherwise is selling something. Where we make a factual claim about how a tool behaves, it comes from documented, common behavior of current systems — and where the honest answer is "it depends on your congregation," the guides say that instead of inventing a number.
Contact
Suggestions or corrections: hello@aiforchurch.org