No. AskMyChurch installs on the website you already have — WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, or hand-built — with a link or QR code. No rebuild, no migration.
No — your church does not need a new website to add an AI assistant. AskMyChurch installs on the site you already have, whether that is WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, or something a volunteer hand-coded ten years ago, and the site itself does not change.
This question usually comes from a bad memory. The last time the church touched its website, it turned into a six-month project with a designer, a migration, and a broken sermon archive. Adding an assistant is not that kind of project. It is an addition, not a rebuild.
The assistant runs on its own page. Your site connects to it with a link or a QR code — a button in the menu, a line on the homepage, a code on the printed bulletin. Anything that can hold a link can hold the assistant, which is why the platform does not matter. Hand-coded HTML from ten years ago works exactly like a new Squarespace build.
No plugin marketplace. No theme change. No developer on retainer. If someone at your church can add a link to a page, the setup on your end is done.
Here is the part that surprises people: the assistant does not need your website replaced, because your website is what it runs on. AskMyChurch answers only from your church's own published content — the pages already on your site, plus your sermons. Service times, kids check-in, what you believe, how to get baptized: if it is on your site or in a sermon, the assistant can answer it and show where the answer came from.
When someone asks what your church teaches on a topic, the Canon layer links to the exact minute in the sermon where it was said. That works the same whether the site hosting the link is an expensive custom build or a free WordPress theme.
Then the assistant will be honest about it. It never invents an answer to cover a gap — if the answer is not in your content, it says so and hands the person to a real human at your church. That is the standard: the front door of your church, always open, and never making things up on your behalf.
An old site with accurate service times and a live sermon feed is a better starting point than a beautiful site with neither. And if you do redesign next year, the assistant comes along — it reads whatever you publish. You never have to time a rebuild around it.
Some features people assume require deep technical work are built into the assistant itself. Before any AI response runs, a hard-coded crisis check looks for signs of acute distress — in English and in Spanish — and routes those messages to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the Crisis Text Line before the AI says anything. That runs the same on every platform, because it lives in the assistant itself.
The assistant also detects whether someone is writing in English or Spanish and answers in the same language. Again, no change to your site required.
Pricing is by weekend attendance, not by website platform. Base is $99/month for churches under 500. Growth is $249/month for 500 to 2,000. Premium is $500/month for churches over 2,000 or multi-campus. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, carries a money-back guarantee, and you can cancel anytime. A church on Wix pays the same as a church with a custom build.
If you want to see how the install works on your platform, start with the docs at /docs. For what each tier includes, the pricing breakdown is at /answers/how-much-does-a-church-ai-chatbot-cost. Everything else is at askchurch.ai.
Yes. AskMyChurch runs on its own page and connects to your existing site with a link or QR code, so it works on WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, or a hand-coded site. There is no plugin to install, no theme change, and no developer needed — if someone at your church can add a link to a page, the setup on your end is done.
No. Adding the assistant is an addition, not a rebuild — your site itself does not change. And if you redesign your website later, the assistant comes along, because it reads whatever you publish.
AskMyChurch answers only from your church's own published content — the pages already on your site plus your sermons — and shows where each answer came from. If the answer is not in your content, it never invents one; it says so and hands the person to a real human at your church.
No. Pricing is by weekend attendance, not website platform: $99/month for churches under 500, $249/month for 500 to 2,000, and $500/month for churches over 2,000 or multi-campus. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, carries a money-back guarantee, and you can cancel anytime.
Updated 2026-06-26 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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