New sermons auto-ingest weekly and website changes flow straight through, so an AskMyChurch assistant answers from this week's schedule — never last year's.
A church AI assistant stays current by going back to the source on a schedule, instead of freezing a copy of your content the day it launches. With AskMyChurch, new sermons ingest automatically every week, and changes on your website — service times, events, staff — flow through to the assistant, so nobody gets quoted last year's schedule.
That design choice matters more than any single feature. Here is how each piece works.
When your church posts a sermon to YouTube, the assistant picks it up on its own. Nobody on staff uploads a file, tags a topic, or clicks a sync button. The new message gets indexed into the Canon layer — the part of the assistant that answers teaching questions from your pastor's actual words and links to the exact minute in the recording.
So the week after your pastor preaches on forgiveness, a member can ask "what did we say about forgiveness on Sunday?" and get an answer drawn from that sermon, with a link that jumps to the moment it was said. The archive grows every week without anyone maintaining it.
The assistant answers only from your church's own website and sermons — nothing from the open internet. That constraint is also what keeps it current. When your office updates the service times page, moves an event, or changes who leads a ministry, that update flows through to the assistant. You fix the website once, in the one place you were going to fix it anyway. There is no second copy of your church's information to keep in sync — and a second copy is where most stale answers come from.
This is the failure mode to grill any vendor on, because it is the most common one: a chatbot that was accurate at setup and quietly rots afterward. Christmas Eve times in July. The 9:00 service that became a 9:30 two years ago. A canceled men's breakfast it keeps promoting. Members forgive an assistant that says "I'm not sure — let me get you to a person." A first-time family sent to a locked building does not come back.
Freshness has a hard edge: the assistant never fills a gap with a guess. If your website doesn't say whether there's childcare at the Saturday service, the assistant says it doesn't know and hands the person to a real human at your church. An out-of-date answer and an invented answer do the same damage, so both get the same treatment — the assistant only speaks from what your church has actually published. It is the front door of your church, always open, and an open door that says "let me get someone" beats one that guesses.
One part of the assistant never changes with your content, on purpose. Crisis routing is hard-coded: if someone writes in acute distress, they see 988 and the Crisis Text Line — in English and in Spanish — before any AI response runs. That safety layer doesn't depend on your website, your sermons, or the weekly ingest. It is fixed by design.
Language support works the same way. The assistant detects English or Spanish and answers in kind, whatever your content mix looks like from week to week.
The weekly sermon ingest and website freshness come with every plan; they are not an add-on. Pricing is by weekend attendance: $99/month under 500 (Base), $249/month for 500–2,000 (Growth), $500/month for 2,000+ or multi-campus (Premium). Every tier comes with a 30-day free trial and a money-back guarantee, and you can cancel anytime.
Keep doing what you already do: post sermons to YouTube and keep the website's schedule accurate. That is the whole maintenance load. If the website is wrong, the assistant will be wrong the same way — and the fix is the same edit you would have made anyway.
To see the mechanics in more detail, read the docs at /docs or start at askchurch.ai. Related reading: how the assistant trains on your sermons and how it handles service times and events.
No. When your church posts a sermon to YouTube, the assistant picks it up automatically — nobody on staff uploads a file, tags a topic, or clicks a sync button. The week after your pastor preaches, members can ask about that message and get an answer with a link to the exact minute in the recording.
The update flows through to the assistant, because it answers only from your church's own website and sermons — nothing from the open internet. You fix the website once, in the one place you were going to fix it anyway; there is no second copy of your information to keep in sync.
It says it doesn't know and hands the person to a real human at your church — it never fills a gap with a guess. The assistant only speaks from what your church has actually published.
No — weekly sermon ingest and website freshness come with every plan, not as an add-on. Pricing is by weekend attendance: $99/month under 500, $249/month for 500–2,000, and $500/month for 2,000+ or multi-campus, each with 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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