If your small group Bible study feels disconnected between meetings, StudyChurch bridges the gap. This free, web-based platform gives churches and small group leaders a shared space where members can work through lesson material together online — answering questions, discussing each other’s responses, and collaborating before they ever meet in person.^1
At its core, StudyChurch is a study hall for your small group. Leaders use the built-in Study Builder to write lessons, embed questions, and distribute them instantly — no printing, no emailing Word documents. Group members interact with the material on their own time, and their answers spark threaded conversations that carry right into the next meeting. Churches can manage all their groups from a single dashboard, assign administrators, track homework with built-in to-dos, and schedule lesson publish dates for controlled release.^2
Created by Tanner Moushey, a Christ-following web developer and WordPress core contributor based in Tulsa, StudyChurch started in 2015 when his own small church began distributing study material as word processing documents. He envisioned something better — a tool that would let groups collaborate on lessons together online, deepening the conversation before they gathered in person. Tanner’s agency, Mission Lab, has since built websites for major ministries including Bayside Church (18,000 members), the Salvation Army, and Duke University, and he now leads ChurchPlugins (CP Sermons, CP Groups, CP Staff, CP Live, CP Locations, CP Sync), an actively maintained WordPress church plugin suite.^3
Why Christians Love It“Prior to us starting to use Study.Church, we were a 200-250 people church with less than 90 people completing our discipleship classes between 2016-2020. Ever since we moved everything online with Study.Church, we now have more than 150+ completing our discipleship classes in just 2 years. And as a church, we’re able to come out of COVID season stronger and with a slightly larger church congregation.” — Ryan H.^2
Notable- 100% free — no paid tiers, no premium plans, whether your church is 100 or 10,000 people^1
- Built on WordPress and BuddyPress with a modern VueJS front end, and open source on GitHub^5
- Featured as a case study by BuddyPress for its innovative use of the BP REST API^5
- Tanner also runs ChurchPlugins (CP Sermons, CP Groups, CP Staff, CP Live, CP Locations, CP Sync), a WordPress church plugin suite actively maintained through 2026^6
- Tanner has contributed to WordPress core, BuddyPress, and Restrict Content Pro, and speaks at WordCamps^4
