A crisis message never reaches the AI. AskMyChurch shows the 988 Lifeline and the Crisis Text Line first — in English and Spanish — before any AI runs.
A crisis message never reaches the AI. AskMyChurch runs a hard-coded crisis check on every message first, and when it detects crisis language the person immediately sees the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and the Crisis Text Line — in English or Spanish — before any AI model runs.
That ordering is the whole design. Here is how it works, step by step.
An AI model predicts likely words. Most of the time that's fine — service times, parking, what the pastor said about forgiveness. It is not fine when someone types "I don't want to be here anymore" at 2 a.m.
So AskMyChurch doesn't ask the AI to be careful. The crisis gate is ordinary code that runs ahead of the model — no prompt, no judgment call, no chance of a bad day. If the gate trips, the AI is skipped entirely. Code that says "show 988" shows 988 every single time.
1. Someone types a message into the chat on the church's website.
2. The crisis check runs first. Before anything is sent to an AI model, the message is screened for crisis language — suicide and self-harm.
3. If the check trips, the AI never runs. Instead of a generated answer, the person sees the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) and the Crisis Text Line.
4. The response matches the language. A message written in Spanish gets the crisis response in Spanish, with the same resources.
5. A human takes it from there. The screen has one job: connect this person to a person, right now.
A person in crisis writes in the language they think in. That's why AskMyChurch builds crisis detection and crisis resources in Spanish as well as English, rather than bolting translation on afterward. The rest of the assistant is bilingual too — ask in Spanish, get answered in Spanish — but the crisis path is the part guaranteed in both languages by code, not by a model's best effort.
Normal messages go through to the AI, which has its own guardrails. AskMyChurch answers only from the church's own website and sermons — nothing pulled from the wider internet. When it references a sermon, it links to the exact minute (the Canon layer), so people can hear the pastor say it rather than trust a paraphrase. And when it doesn't know something, it says so and hands the person to a real human on staff instead of inventing an answer. The product is built to be the front door of your church, always open — and a front door's first job is getting people to the right person.
If you're evaluating any assistant for your church's website, ask three things. Does the crisis handling run before the AI, or is it just an instruction the AI is supposed to follow? Does it show 988 and the Crisis Text Line, or only a generic "seek help" message? And does it work in Spanish? For AskMyChurch the answers are: before the AI, yes to both resources, and yes in Spanish.
AskMyChurch has working previews already built for churches across several metros — 84 in Atlanta, 79 in Nashville, 63 in Charlotte, 60 in Columbia, 53 in Charleston, and 38 in Knoxville — each one waiting for its church to claim it. Pricing goes by weekend attendance: $99 a 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 can be canceled anytime.
If you lead a church, the test is simple: claim your preview at askmy.church and type a hard message into your own assistant. You should never see the AI answer it. That's the bar this tool has to clear before it deserves a place on your website.
No. The crisis check is plain code that runs before any AI model, so a message with crisis language is met with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and the Crisis Text Line instead of a generated answer.
Two: the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) and the Crisis Text Line. Both appear before any AI response, in English and Spanish.
Yes. Crisis detection and crisis resources are hard-coded in Spanish as well as English, and the rest of the assistant answers in whichever language the person writes in.
$99, $249, or $500 per month based on weekend attendance — under 500, 500–2,000, and 2,000+ or multi-campus. Every plan includes a 30-day free trial, a money-back guarantee, and the option to cancel anytime.
Updated 2026-06-26 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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