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Sermon Send

Sermon Send turns each sermon into one branded, shareable page with clips, a five-day devotional, and reflections, with optional AI drafts through Sermon Shots. It is a web tool in the Sermon Shots Suite for churches.

Reach The Lost

Reach The Lost is a Colorado Springs church marketing agency that helps churches win Google and AI search through Google Ad Grant management, local SEO, paid ads, AEO, Meta Ads, and YouTube Ads — serving 55+ churches across 24 states, plus a Promoting Pastor service for individual pastors' platforms.

Lessons.Church

Free, open-source church curriculum platform with 1,100+ video-based lessons for preschool through adult from 12+ providers. Built by ChurchApps (Live Church Solutions), now serving 15,000+ churches in 130+ countries. Summer 2026 added three new NextLevel adult studies (Discipleship, Evangelism, Zephaniah); companion FreePlay TV app, presenter mode, comparison pages against paid alternatives, and no login required to browse.

Divinav AI

DiviNav AI generates complete, ready-to-teach ministry lesson kits aligned to your church's statement of faith, with built-in theology, plagiarism, and sensitivity review. Built by the Wurster family behind the DiviNav Bible-study curriculum line in Donnelly, Idaho.

AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis

A grounded, crisis-safe AI assistant that turns a church's own published content into a 24/7 "front door" — answering visitors and members from the church's words, citing sources, and routing care and crisis to real people. Web-only SaaS built by Vision Genesis AI (Knoxville, TN), founded by a former youth minister; live free for churches for 60 days, then flat monthly tiers.

Igniter Media

Igniter Media is a church media library of graphics, videos, and worship assets, with Creator AI for custom sermon and social graphics. Founded in 2003 by Rob Thomas and now part of Gloo, it serves churches through membership or a la carte downloads.

Foster the City

A free app for churches partnering with Foster the City, connecting Foster Parents, Support Friends, and Advocates through shared calendars, prayer requests, messaging, an Inspiration and Hope screen, and curated foster care resources. Since launching in 2015, the movement has grown to 368 partner churches, 527 foster families, and 1,117 children welcomed into loving homes — with foster family retention nearly double the national average.

Church Media Squad

Church Media Squad is a subscription creative team for churches. A remote roster of church creatives handles graphics, video, branding, social, and websites so staff can stay with people instead of a design queue.

Voco

Voco streams live speech-to-text sermon translation into 157+ languages via a QR code, letting multilingual congregations follow along on their own phones without an app or hardware.

Cultivate Leadership Institute

Cultivate Leadership Institute is a Christian leadership training program that walks churches, companies, and individuals through two-year Leadership and Ministry tracks — plus custom paths — on its Develop.Me platform, with academic partnerships for transfer credit.

Sites by Ministry Designs

A church-specific website builder and management platform trusted by 67,000+ churches worldwide, featuring drag-and-drop design kits, built-in online giving and SEO, a free library of 80,000+ church graphics plus a premium graphics storefront, a Small Groups Manager, and an optional fully managed website service — founded by Tyler and Vincent Rominger in Battle Creek, MI (2013).

Pastor Notes App

Pastor Notes App helps pastors share sermon notes, live polls, prayer requests, and an invitation to accept Jesus with their people through the free companion Bible Notes app. Concierge Contacts Pty Ltd in Australia maintains the congregation-size subscription for iOS and Android.

Paper Bible

A free, open-source web app from Gracious Tech for printing customized Scripture in 800+ languages — as a fold-at-home booklet or a file for a professional printer.

CareNote

A subscription-based pastoral care platform by Rev. Donnell Wyche that helps church care teams receive, assign, and follow up on visits and prayer needs, with volunteer SMS coordination, church-management integrations, and AI Care Story briefings.

MinistryHelper.ai

AI-powered platform that turns a single sermon into 30 pieces of discipleship and outreach content — video clips, social posts, devotionals, study guides, kids lessons, and coaching reports — all written in the pastor's own voice and calibrated to the church's theology. Two free, no-account tools (Instant Sermon Quiz and Instant Devo) let anyone sample the platform before subscribing.

Pastors.AI

AI-powered platform that turns church sermons into Bible studies, devotionals, social media clips (with one-click posting), embeddable chatbots, and real-time translations — all from a YouTube link or uploaded manuscript.

Sermon Central

SermonCentral is a free pastor-contributed sermon research library with optional subscription-based PRO media and generative AI helpers for outlines, research packages, and funeral messages.

Christicons

Christicons is a free library of 61 hand-crafted Christian SVG icons with a browser customizer and npm packages for React, Vue, and JavaScript. Dimitri Conejo Sanz, the Catholic designer behind Cathopic and several other evangelization projects, licenses the set free for personal and commercial use — not as a redistributable icon pack, and not for AI training.

NextSteps by Jesus Film Project

A free interactive journey builder from Jesus Film Project that lets ministries create shareable digital gospel experiences with video, polls, and branching stories — with AI translation into ~80 languages, AI image generation, a built-in analytics dashboard, and access to 200+ films in 2,296 languages plus The Bible Project content.

ActiveChristianity

ActiveChristianity is a free web library from Brunstad Christian Church with articles, testimonies, videos, and theme pages on living out Scripture through discipleship and sanctification. Sister sites serve English, French, Chichewa, and Swahili readers, and Hidden Treasures Publishers hosts a companion literature archive.

Church Canvas

Church Canvas is an AI design studio for church ministry. Describe the graphic you need in plain language and get sermon slides, social posts, event banners, and more — built by pastors so teams can spend less time designing and more time with people.

Lightstock

Lightstock is a subscription marketplace of faith-focused stock photos, 4K video, and design elements for churches and Christian creatives. Founded by Jon and Josh Bailey, it is now part of Gloo through The Igniter Company.

Open Network

A free Life.Church library of sermon outlines, kids curriculum, graphics, and training for pastors and church leaders. Web-based, with no official mobile app, and free to use.

Playlister

Playlister is a cloud-based Kids Ministry presentation app that streams curriculum and media to Apple TVs, replacing USB drives and ProPresenter in classrooms. Trusted by 10,000+ churches in 53 countries with direct Orange curriculum integration and the Church-to-Church content sharing feature (launched May 2026 with the free CKids Curriculum, now ranked among Playlister's top five recommended curricula). The Apple TV app remains under active development, shipping new releases through August 2026 (v7.18 era). Recent multi-campus case studies include The Church of Eleven22 (13 campuses) and Red Rocks Church.

SundayU

An online training platform and resource hub for church communications leaders, offering 300+ video classes, certification courses, done-for-you design resources, and an annual planning system. Founded by Justin Dean in 2017 and acquired by Sylva, Inc. in 2021; Dean has since launched a newer companion platform, SaltyChurches.com.

Nucleus

Premium all-in-one church website builder with sermon management, conversational Flows, a private Prayer Wall, online giving (no percentage taken), the signature Launcher, the Posts feature for ministry content, and Planning Center + Zapier integrations. Built by Brady Shearer (Pro Church Tools), used by 4,000+ churches, and featured in Forbes and Christianity Today. Also offers free website makeovers with professional photography. Actively developed with regular release notes.

ICF EQUIP

Free resource-sharing platform from the ICF church movement offering sermon series, ministry manuals, leadership videos, job descriptions, and small group studies — part of ICF Digital's growing suite of church tools serving 71 locations and 95 micro churches across 12 countries.

Cathopic

Cathopic is a subscription-based Catholic stock-media library of photos, videos, vectors, artwork, and AI-generated images for parish and ministry communications. Dimitri Conejo Sanz founded it, and Dimconex Media also runs Holydemia, Mater Coeli, and Tolkian.

FrontDoor

A free church outreach platform from Stackhouse Ventures that provides Bible-based resources, landing pages, embeddable widgets, and automated email follow-up to help churches connect with their community. Co-founded by Michael Lukaszewski (ex-Church Fuel) and Kenny Jahng (AI for Church Leaders); completely free with all features included.

Church Visuals by Ministry Designs

Free library of 80,000+ church media assets — sermon bundles, motion backgrounds, social graphics, countdown timers — with new content added regularly. No subscription or credit card required. From Ministry Designs, co-owned by Tyler and Vinnie Rominger and serving 67,000+ churches since 2012.

Ministry Pass

Ministry Pass is a subscription sermon-resource library for pastors, with series, graphics, calendars, Sermonary writing tools, a Series Planner, church-branded devotionals, and Churchly websites.

Church Motion Graphics

A ministry-focused design studio with a subscription library of worship backgrounds, slide templates, social graphics, and in-browser tools such as TempoMatch and CMG Designer. Founded by Jeff McIntosh in 2010 and now part of Ministry Brands, it also offers a Premium + Kids Curriculum tier.

Sermonary

Sermonary is a browser-based sermon writing and preaching workspace from Justin Trapp and Ministry Pass, with a drag-and-drop editor, Podium Mode, a research suite, and an AI assistant. It is subscription-based with a free trial.