Yes for PDFs linked on your church site; sermon content comes in through YouTube with cite-to-the-minute links. What AskMyChurch reads, and its honest limits.
Yes to PDFs: if a document is linked anywhere on your church's website, AskMyChurch reads it and answers from it. Podcasts deserve a straight answer — sermon content comes in through your YouTube channel, with links to the exact minute a pastor said something, but a standalone audio-only podcast feed isn't part of standard ingestion as of this writing.
That's the short version. Here's what actually gets read, what doesn't, and how it stays current.
AskMyChurch builds its knowledge from two sources, and only two: your church's website and your sermons.
The website crawl is exhaustive, not a skim of the homepage. That includes:
The rule of thumb: if a visitor could click their way to it from your site, the assistant treats it as your content. A PDF handbook buried three links deep in your children's ministry section is exactly the kind of thing parents ask about at 9pm on a Saturday, so it gets read like any page.
Sermons come in through your YouTube channel. The assistant doesn't just know a sermon exists — it can point someone to the minute where the pastor addressed their question. When someone asks "what does our church teach about baptism?", they get an answer drawn from your actual teaching, with a link that opens the sermon at the relevant moment.
For most churches, honestly, yes — because most church podcasts are the Sunday message in audio form, and the same message is on YouTube. If that's your setup, your podcast content is covered through the video side, minute-level citations included.
Where the honest answer is "not yet": a teaching podcast that exists only as an audio feed, with episodes that never hit YouTube. That content isn't ingested by default as of this writing. If most of your teaching lives in audio-only form, ask us about it before you start the trial — we'd rather tell you the boundary up front than have you find it later.
New sermons are picked up automatically when they post to your YouTube channel. Nobody on your staff uploads transcripts or maintains a knowledge base.
Website content is refreshed by re-crawling your live site. And because the assistant answers only from what's actually in your content, staleness fails safe: if the answer isn't there, it says so and offers to connect the person with a real human at your church. It never fills the gap with a guess.
An assistant that could answer from anywhere would also be wrong from anywhere. AskMyChurch is deliberately limited to your site and your sermons because a church's front door can't afford to improvise — not about service times, and certainly not about what your church believes.
A few things are hard-coded on top of that boundary. If a message reads like a crisis, the response is 988 and the Crisis Text Line — in English and Spanish — before any AI generates a word. The assistant works in English and Spanish for everything else too. And every conversation has a path to a real person, because the goal is the front door of your church, always open — not a wall that talks.
Pricing is by weekend attendance: $99 per month for churches under 500, $249 for 500–2,000, and $500 for 2,000+ or multi-campus. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, carries a money-back guarantee, and you can cancel anytime.
If your church is in Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Columbia, Charleston, or Knoxville, there's a decent chance a working preview already exists — 84, 79, 63, 60, 53, and 38 built in those metros respectively, each waiting for its church to claim it. Yours may already know what's in your PDFs.
Yes. Any document linked from your site — parent handbooks, registration forms, doctrinal statements — is ingested along with the pages themselves. If a visitor could click to it, the assistant can answer from it.
If your messages are also posted to YouTube, yes — including links to the exact minute a question was addressed. Audio-only podcast feeds that never hit YouTube aren't part of standard ingestion as of this writing.
Automatically. When a sermon posts to your church's YouTube channel it gets picked up — no uploads, transcripts, or knowledge-base upkeep for your staff.
The assistant says so and offers to connect the person with a real human at your church. It only answers from your website and sermons, and it never invents an answer to fill a gap.
Updated 2026-06-26 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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