Custom AI chatbots for churches and ministries, built on a curated Christian apologetics corpus to answer life's hardest questions about faith.^1
Gospel Bots gives ministries a white-label AI chatbot they can embed on their website — one that draws from the Bible, the Church Fathers, and works by both classic and contemporary Christian apologists to provide biblically grounded answers in nearly 200 languages.^1 Whether someone is quietly wrestling with doubt at 2 a.m. or a missions team needs real-time translation, the platform meets seekers where they are with theologically sound responses backed by cited sources.^2
Built by the team behind The Apologist Project, a nonprofit founded by Jake Carlson dedicated to using technology for Christian apologetics and evangelism, Gospel Bots was born when the AI agents Jake created for the project started drawing more attention than anything else.^3 Now led by a growing leadership team including Troy Michels (Head of Solutions), Derek Rine (Head of Strategy), Steve Verleye (Head of Business Development), and Hernando Betita III (Head of Marketing), the platform has answered over 80,000 spiritual questions across 100+ countries, facilitating more than 30,000 meaningful conversations pointing people to Christ.^1
Ministries can customize everything — their own content corpus aligned with their doctrinal preferences, starter questions, branding, and a call to action that connects users to real people for deeper discipleship. The platform also offers a chat completion API for custom integrations, automatic content ingestion from RSS feeds and podcasts, and the ability to let users choose their preferred Bible translation.^2 The Nicene Creed serves as the doctrinal baseline, celebrating orthodox Christian unity while respecting denominational diversity on secondary issues.^4
Why Christians Love It"Hello. I'm from Kazakhstan. I need your help. I study world religions. Some people from my country ask me questions. I can't answer them. I need your help."
— Yerken, international user^1
Notable- Partners include Reasons to Believe, Stand to Reason, Sammy Tippit Ministries, Discovery Institute, and NavTheWay^1
- Won 2nd place at the Gloo AI & the Church hackathon^5
- Jake Carlson presented at the Defend Apologetics Conference (2026) and Missional AI 2025^5
- Featured on theChurch.digital, Becoming Our Age, PEP Talk, AI for Churches, and UNREACHED podcasts^5
- Published a white paper on "Generative AI in Christian Evangelism" and featured in Missio Nexus webinars^5
- Run by a growing team of dedicated volunteers under The Apologist Project nonprofit^3
