Church staff shouldn't have to run Sunday out of ten browser tabs. Ministry Planner is a ministry operations platform built for church teams, now bringing giving, a church website, a people database, and a full suite of staff tools together in one place.^1
The teaching calendar still drives the week: one entry auto-generates the service plan and run sheets, so the worship pastor, kids director, and volunteer coordinator all work from the same plan.^1 Around that core sit team chat, project boards, smart documents and meeting notes, designed email campaigns, groups, and check-in and attendance.^1 For the congregation, the same system publishes a church website, online giving, group and event registration, and a sermon library, and a congregation mobile app is listed as coming soon.^1 It syncs with Planning Center and Church Community Builder, including two-way sync with Planning Center, plus Google Calendar and Google Drive, so a church can run it side by side with its current system or switch completely.^1
An AI assistant built into every tool lets staff ask plain-English questions about their own church data, import a spreadsheet, PDF, or email automatically, and see AI engagement scoring that flags people who are drifting.^1 The assistant is opt-in, and the privacy policy states that prompts are sent to Anthropic's Claude API and that Anthropic does not use that data to train models.^6
Churches that only need one piece can start with the free standalone tools hub, which has grown to scheduling, supply drives, a directory, attendance and check-in, VBS tools, an order of service maker, and more.^5
Ministry Planner was built by Paul Priddy, a teaching pastor at Lifepoint Church in Marion, Ohio, and Ryan Brown, the developer behind MemoryVerses.com, two people who wanted the unified workspace they wished existed for their own teams.^3 Pricing is flat per church rather than per seat, with unlimited team members on every plan, tiers that scale by active people, monthly or annual billing, and a free trial to start.^2
Notable- All-in-one platform positioned to replace separate giving, website, and planning tools, with online giving through Stripe and no platform fee taken from gifts.^1
- Built-in AI assistant, smart import, and engagement scoring at every tier, with church data never used to train models.^1
- Built by a teaching pastor (Paul Priddy, Lifepoint Church) and the developer of MemoryVerses.com (Ryan Brown).^3
