Most churches pour hours into a single Sunday sermon — but what happens to that message on Monday? Pastors.AI helps churches extend the life of every sermon by turning a YouTube link or uploaded manuscript into a full suite of resources: Bible study guides, five-day devotionals, captioned social media clips, and an AI chatbot that lets congregants ask follow-up questions grounded in what their pastor actually preached.^1
Founded by tech entrepreneur Joe Suh, who attends Menlo Church in Silicon Valley, Pastors.AI won the 2024 AI & the Church Hackathon Grand Prize for its real-time sermon translation feature — enabling churches to translate sermons into multiple languages with AI-powered audio, including lip-sync and voice cloning.^2 After a pilot in March 2025, Menlo Church officially launched the translation system in August, expanding from Mandarin and Spanish to eight languages for its Sunday services — removing language barriers for the 45% of San Mateo households that don't speak English at home.^3
Each church gets its own branded sermon pages, a TikTok-style feed of sermon highlights, and an embeddable "Ask Your Church" chatbot trained on its sermons and website — meaning visitors can ask questions like "What time is service?" or "What's your church like?" and get answers drawn from the church's own content.^1
Suh built Pastors.AI during a season of spiritual dryness, seeking to serve pastors the way technology had served other industries. As he shared in a podcast interview, the platform emerged from a desire to help churches get more mileage out of each sermon — not to replace pastors, but to amplify their reach.^5
Why Churches Love It"My parents do not know English at all and have never been to church before. With the translation software, they are able to join me in the church community, listen to the sermon together and feel the power of worship." — Menlo Church congregant^3
"We're all building for a kingdom." — Joe Suh, founder of Pastors.AI, at the 2024 AI & the Church Hackathon^2
Notable- Won the 2024 AI & the Church Hackathon Grand Prize ($100,000) in Boulder, Colorado^2
- Featured in The New York Times ("At the Intersection of A.I. and Spirituality," January 2025)^4
- Active partnership with Menlo Church for real-time sermon translation in 8+ languages (launched August 2025)^3
- Listed among the top church AI tools by The Lead Pastor (January 2026)^6
- Offers a free tier with 4 sermons per month and 2 clips per sermon^1
- Founded by Joe Suh, a 25-year Silicon Valley veteran and Menlo Church attendee^4
- Web-only platform — no App Store or Play Store listing
