AskMyChurch is an AI assistant that acts as a church's "front door" online, answering the questions visitors and members actually ask — service times, what the church believes, baptism, grief, or how to take a next step — long after the office closes.^1
It answers only from a church's own published pages, sermons, and videos, links each answer to the exact source, and says "I don't know" rather than guessing. A grounding check re-verifies every reply before it sends, and a hard-coded crisis gate routes acute distress to 988, the Crisis Text Line, and the church's own care team before any AI responds. It runs in English and Spanish, stays anonymous by default (no accounts, names, or device tracking), and goes live from a church's existing website in about an hour.^1
A "Canon" feature answers questions from the pastor's own sermons, cited to the moment they were preached, without ever impersonating the pastor. AskMyChurch is built by Vision Genesis AI in Knoxville, Tennessee, founded by Ryan Dix — a former youth minister who studied Religion at Carson-Newman and attended Wake Forest Divinity School on a funded fellowship before a two-decade career operating Fortune 50 finance and operations at ExxonMobil and Iron Mountain. The first assistant built was for his own home church, Cedar Springs Presbyterian. The stated ethos is that "an AI agent should never stand between a person and God" — AskMyChurch opens the door and steps aside, pointing people to their church and to real people.^1
Notable- Grounds every answer in the individual church's own content and statement of faith, and declines to invent doctrine.^1
- Hard crisis gate runs before the model replies, routing urgent needs to 988, the Crisis Text Line, and the church's care team.^1
- Multi-tenant service used to build assistants for many churches; English and Spanish supported today, with a weekly "learning loop" that surfaces question themes (never private words or names) so staff can fix gaps in plain English.^1
