A church plant has no office staff — every question lands on the planting pastor. AskMyChurch answers from what you publish, at $99/month. Honest caveat: a one-page website gives it little to work with.
A church plant is the smallest communications team in the world: the planting pastor, a spouse, maybe a launch-team volunteer who is good with Canva. Every question a curious visitor has — where do you meet, is there something for my kids, what do you believe — lands on the same two or three phones. Some of those questions come at hours no planter should be answering them. That is the case for putting an assistant on a plant's website. Here is the honest version of it.
AskMyChurch answers only from your church's own website and sermons. A plant with a one-page site — logo, meeting time, Instagram link — has given an assistant almost nothing to answer from. It will handle the meeting-time question and hand nearly everything else to you, truthfully saying your site doesn't cover it yet. If that is where your web presence is today, spend your first energy writing the pages, not buying tools. The pages a plant actually needs are short: what to expect on Sunday, what happens with kids, what you believe, where exactly to park and enter, how to reach you. A focused afternoon writes all five.
Once those pages exist, the equation flips. Now every hour that went into them works around the clock, because the assistant answers from them — cited, in English or Spanish automatically — while you are at your actual job, which for many planters is also a day job.
The repeat questions: meeting time and place (which for portable churches changes more than anyone likes), kids check-in, what to wear, how long the service runs. The assistant answers those instantly from your pages and cites where the answer lives. The questions that deserve you — "can I get coffee with the pastor?", "my marriage is struggling" — get handed to you directly. Prayer requests, serve interest, and plan-a-visit asks route to whoever owns them, even if that is one person wearing all three hats.
And underneath everything sits the piece a solo planter cannot personally provide at 2am: a hard-coded crisis check that screens every message before any AI runs, in English and Spanish, routing acute distress to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and your church's own care team — which in a plant is you. The AI never improvises with a person in crisis.
A plant's sermon archive is small, which makes it more useful, not less: everything in it is recent, and it is the single best answer to "what is this church actually like?" If your sermons are posted, the Canon layer indexes each new one automatically and answers belief questions from your own preached words, linked to the exact minute. For a church nobody has heard of yet, "here is our pastor saying it" beats any about-page paragraph you could write.
$99/month is real money in a plant budget — it is a Sunday's worth of coffee and curriculum. The comparison isn't against zero; it is against your own hours. If the website answers the repeat questions, you get back the evenings currently spent being a human FAQ, and the visitors you never heard from — the ones who wouldn't message a stranger but will ask a website — get answered instead of lost. Setup is about thirty minutes with a link or QR code, billing is monthly, and you can cancel anytime with a money-back guarantee. If the plant replants or the budget tightens, you are not locked in.
Start with the five pages. Then let them answer.
Maybe not on day one. If your whole web presence is one page with a meeting time, there is little for an assistant to answer from. The moment you have real pages — kids, what to expect, beliefs, how to serve — the assistant starts earning its keep by answering what you published.
$99/month — the Base plan covers churches under 500 in weekend attendance, which is nearly every plant. It is the full assistant: crisis routing, English and Spanish, sermon answers, citations. Billing is monthly, cancel anytime, with a money-back guarantee.
The assistant says it doesn't know and hands the person off — which for a plant usually means you. The difference is you get the real questions, not the fifteen service-time repeats before them.
No — the assistant answers from your website, so your site is the one place to update. Portable churches change details often, which is exactly why a single source of truth (your site) beats re-answering the same question on three platforms.
Updated 2026-07-11 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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