Epistle helps missionaries stay close to the people who pray and give without turning the newsletter into a second job.^1 You post short updates with photos and videos as ministry happens. Epistle bundles those posts into emails and sends each partner a digest at the cadence they chose—daily, weekly, or monthly. Partners can answer with likes, prayers, and comments from the email, so an update becomes a conversation.^2
The same workspace covers Ministry Partner Development: donor and donation records with sync from Partner Essentials and DonorHub, an MPD-first CRM, commitment tracking, income and expense views, multi-currency support, and AI-powered MPD coaching. I did not live-test that coaching.^3
Frankie and Chelsea O'Rourke started Epistle in 2014 while serving with Cru in Moscow. They now pastor a church plant in Oaxaca, Mexico, and keep building the product. Epistle LLC works with Solertiae on a migration path for Partner Essentials users.^4
For sensitive contexts, Epistle offers private posts, an invisible-mode site, and notification-only emails, and it says those tools are not a substitute for an organization's own security plan.^6 It runs on the web, iPhone, and Android, and it is subscription-based with a free trial.^7^9
