Your church doesn't have a communication problem.
It has a follow-up problem.
Christ Unites is an automated ministry-engagement system: guest follow-up, member engagement, prayer, pastoral care, volunteer coordination and church communication — through the device people already carry. Texting is the interface. Follow-up is the product.
Illustrative example — not actual customer results.
The information is already in your database.
The follow-up isn't.
Illustrative example — a typical church database, not actual customer data.
Your church already has this information. What nobody has is the twenty spare hours a week it takes to act on it. That gap — between what you know and what anyone has time to do — is where people quietly disappear.
Texting Is the Interface.
Follow-Up Is the Product.
Identify
The system watches for the moments that matter — a first visit, a prayer request, a member who hasn't been seen in weeks.
Engage
The right message goes out at the right time — or to the right staff member, when a human touch is what's called for.
Route
Prayer requests reach the prayer team. Care needs reach a pastor. A visiting family's kids' question reaches the children's ministry leader.
Follow Up
Nothing closes until someone actually follows up. Tasks are assigned and tracked — not remembered, or forgotten.
Measure
Every Monday you see what happened: who was reached, who responded, and who still needs attention.
Five Things Every Church Means to Do.
Now They Actually Happen.
Every thread below is an illustrative example — invented names, invented church, no actual customer results. What's real is the timing, the routing, and the accountability behind each one.
Illustrative example — not actual customer results.
The first-time guest who never slips away
A guest texts WELCOME and the follow-up runs on schedule: a same-day thank-you, a personal check-in on Tuesday, and a Saturday invitation back. Mention kids, and the children's ministry leader is notified so a human welcomes the family personally. No sticky notes. No "did anyone ever call that family?"
Illustrative example — not actual customer results.
The member who quietly disappears — noticed
Nobody joins a church planning to drift away, and no pastor can hold five hundred attendance patterns in their head. So the system holds them instead — and when someone's pattern breaks, it taps the pastor on the shoulder, never the member. The alert goes to a human first, every time. The pastor decides, taps once, and a message written by a person goes out.
Technology notices. Ministry responds. That's the whole design.
Illustrative example — not actual customer results.
Prayer that doesn't end at "we'll pray for you"
A member texts PRAY and the request is captured, with a PRIVATE option that's honored. It's routed to the prayer team — and the system remembers the date that matters. It follows up the morning of the surgery, and again two days later. The payoff isn't a feature. It's a sentence: "My church remembered."
1 · Prayer
2 · A conversation with a pastor
3 · Hospital visit
4 · Bereavement support
5 · Marriage support
6 · Financial guidance
7 · Food assistance
Illustrative example — not actual customer results.
Care requests routed to a person — and tracked to completion
CARE opens a simple menu: prayer, a pastoral conversation, a hospital visit, bereavement, marriage, financial guidance, or food assistance. Each request routes to a person your church has authorized for that kind of care — and it stays open until that person marks it done. Leadership can see every open care need at a glance. Nothing sits unread in someone's inbox.
Illustrative example — not actual customer results.
Volunteer recruiting without the Sunday-morning scramble
The need goes out, a YES comes back, the service-time branch sorts the schedule, the coordinator is notified, and a Saturday reminder asks for a CONFIRM — so Sunday morning holds no surprises. Requests only go to members who've opted in to volunteer updates.
Built Once for Your Church.
Running Every Week.
Small Groups
GROUPA member texts GROUP, answers two quick questions, and the right group leader gets a warm handoff — not a spreadsheet row.
Events & VBS
Registration by text, reminders people actually read, and automatic recovery for families who started signing up but didn't finish.
Sermon Follow-Up Series
MARRIAGEJOHNPARENTSunday's message becomes the week's practice — members opt in to a short text series that goes deeper on what was preached.
Next Steps & Salvation
NEXTWhen someone asks about following Jesus, a pastor is notified immediately. This is never handled by automation — a human responds, every time.
Baptism Pipeline
From "I'm interested" to the baptism date — class invitations, preparation reminders and family notifications, step by step.
Giving Campaigns
Campaign updates and thank-yous that point people to the giving platform your church already uses. We don't touch the money — we help you communicate about it.
Weather & Cancellations
One message cancels the service, points everyone to the livestream, and follows up Monday with the recording for those who missed it.
Community Outreach
FOODCHRISTMASSERVEKeywords for food drives, Christmas services and serve days — routing neighbors to the right ministry team, not a general voicemail.
Illustrative example — not actual customer results.
An assistant for the questions that have answers.
A person for the ones that don't.
Service times, childcare, parking, VBS dates, who leads the youth ministry, how baptism works, how membership works, where to give — the practical questions people text a church at 9pm on a Saturday. The assistant answers them instantly, around the clock, from content your church has approved. Nothing improvised, nothing scraped from the internet.
What it will never handle
Theological questions, counseling, crisis situations, anything involving abuse, and medical or financial hardship are escalated to a pastor or staff member — immediately, every time. The assistant is built to say "let me connect you with a person" far more readily than it will ever guess. That's not a limitation. That's the point.
Monday Morning, You'll Know.
Illustrative example — not actual customer results.
This report is the product. Not the two thousand text messages behind it — the answers they produce, and the seven people who won't fall through the cracks this week.
Five Questions Worth Answering Honestly
These aren't gotcha questions. No pastor can be everywhere, and no volunteer team can hold a whole congregation in their heads. But the honest answers usually point at the same gap.
If the honest answer to any of these is "I don't know" — that isn't a leadership failure. It's a system gap. And it's exactly the thing we fix.
Keep Planning Center.
Keep Whatever's Working.
We're the engagement layer, not a migration
Christ Unites sits on top of the tools you already run. If your records live in Planning Center, they stay in Planning Center — we're not asking you to move your database, retrain your staff on a new ChMS, or start over. Our job is what happens around your records: noticing who needs attention, routing each need to a person, and making sure the follow-up actually happens.
"We already use Text In Church"
It's a good platform. If two-way texting, keywords and groups are what you need and it's working for you, don't replace it — honestly.
Our difference isn't texting. It's the system around it: surfacing who needs attention before anyone asks, routing each need to a specific staff member, holding follow-up accountable until it's done, and reporting the outcomes every Monday. If no one has ever quietly fallen through the cracks at your church, you don't need us. If you're not sure — that's the question worth a 30-minute call.
We Build It. We Operate It.
You Do Ministry.
You don't buy software from us and figure it out alone. We build every workflow, write every message, and keep operating the system with you — so the follow-up keeps happening long after launch week.
Discovery Call
We walk through your current follow-up process together — what happens after a visit, a prayer request, a long absence — and find the gaps. A relaxed 30 minutes. No pressure.
We Build Your Workflows
Guest follow-up, prayer, pastoral care routing, volunteers, events — built, written in your church's voice, and tested before you ever log in.
Live Onboarding Walk-Through
Screen-shared, step by step, at your pace. We sit with you until you feel completely confident — no tech jargon, ever.
We Operate It With You
Not a chatbot. Not a ticket queue. A real person who watches the dashboard with you, tunes the workflows as your church changes, and is in your corner every time you need help.
You'll never feel
lost or on your own.
We guarantee it.
Christ Unites was built for the pastor who has never opened a CRM in their life — and never wanted to. You shouldn't have to become a systems administrator for people to be followed up with. That's our job, not yours.
Every church gets hands-on human onboarding, and we stay with you after launch — however long that takes.
We're inviting a small number of
founding churches.
Founding churches get $249/month locked for 12 months, the $999 onboarding waived, and a 90-day satisfaction guarantee — in exchange for anonymized performance metrics and, only with your permission, a testimonial. We're building our proof the honest way: with real churches, measured openly.
This Isn't Just Software.
It's a Ministry Tool.
Behind every feature, every automation, every text message that goes out — there is a genuine belief that the local church is the hope of the world.
Families are drifting. People are one missed connection away from never coming back. A visitor who doesn't hear from your church after Sunday doesn't feel forgotten by your staff — they feel forgotten by God.
Christ Unites was built to close that gap. Not to sell software — but to give pastors the tools to reach the one, stay connected with the many, and bring the Gospel to every family that walks through — or away from — your doors.
Every soul matters. Every message matters. Every church matters.
"What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?"Matthew 18:12 — The Heart Behind Everything We Do
See What You're Missing Between Sundays
Tell us about your church and pick a time that works. We'll walk through your current follow-up process together, show you the system honestly, and help you decide whether it fits — no pressure, just a conversation.