What is SmallChurchApp?

SmallChurchApp is a discipleship and church life app built by a pastor for small churches. It includes a Daily Word, a prayer feed, sermon notes, a calendar, and tools for spiritual formation throughout the week — not just on Sunday.

Who is SmallChurchApp for?

It is built for churches between roughly 30 and 500 members who value relationships over reach, know their members by name, and want to extend the rhythms of Sunday into the rest of the week.

How is this different from existing church management software?

Most church software is a database with a check-in module bolted on. SmallChurchApp is a discipleship tool first — focused on the spiritual disciplines of Bible reading, prayer, fellowship, giving, and service, with church operations supporting that core, not the other way around.

When is the public launch?

Public launch is Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 2026. A small number of pilot churches are onboarding through beta until that date.

How does the prayer feed work?

Prayer requests are submitted to the pastor first. The pastor decides whether to share with the whole church family, keep it private, or set it aside — preserving pastoral care rather than broadcasting every request publicly.

Is there a member directory?

No. By design. Connections are built one relationship at a time through the app's personal contacts feature — not by browsing a member list. This protects privacy and encourages real church family formation.

Built by a pastor for the church

99% of spiritual transformation happens away from the pew.

SmallChurchApp helps your church live like it's still Sunday on Tuesday morning, Wednesday afternoon, Saturday night.

Apply for a beta spot Just notify me at launch

A small number of pilot churches are onboarding through Labor Day 2026 (Sept 7). Public launch is the same day.

Pen-and-ink illustration of a man in a church pew taking sermon notes directly in the SmallChurchApp on his phone, with the speaker preaching from the pulpit behind him.

Many pastors want people to come to church on Sunday. The great pastors want their people to take church home with them all week.

The problem

Tuesday rarely remembers Sunday.

Most members can't recall Sunday's sermon by Tuesday afternoon. That isn't a failure of faith. It's a gap in the rhythm of the week.

It would be a shame if our phones kept us better connected to Amazon than to our faith family.

Pen-and-ink illustration of two women in a church fellowship hall holding up their phones to share what they're seeing in the SmallChurchApp — one screen shows Upcoming events on the church calendar, the other shows the week's Prayer Feed.

The reframe

Not a bulletin in your pocket. A blueprint in your hand.

A blueprint for the small-church work the big platforms forgot about: remembering birthdays, keeping the prayer feed current, knowing who needs a phone call this week, being there for each other in the moments that matter.

Away from the pew

The week, not just the worship service.

99% of spiritual transformation happens between Sundays — on the lunch break, the bench outside work, the quiet ten minutes before the next shift. SmallChurchApp goes with your people through their week, not just their pew.

Pen-and-ink and watercolor illustration of a construction worker on the tailgate of his pickup at a job site, lunchbox open beside him, reading the day's Daily Word on his phone during his lunch break.

Pen-and-ink and watercolor illustration of a nurse in scrubs sitting on a bench in a hospital courtyard between shifts, reading her church's Prayer Feed on her phone.

Prayer in the middle of a shift

Your church, in your pocket, on the hard days.

When the work is heavy and Sunday is still days away, the prayer feed reminds your people they're not alone. A quiet bench, ten minutes between rounds, the whole family praying with them.

Built around five rhythms

The disciplines that form disciples.

The disciplines of the early church are still the disciplines that form disciples today.

Bible Reading

and contemplation

Prayer

talking to God by caring for others

Giving

to the church and through the church

Fellowship

connections made, relationships strengthened

Service

in the body and to the world

This app puts tools in your hand that go into your head, stirring your heart, and changing your habits.

Who it's for

Built for the church that:

Knows every member by name — and does not want to lose that
Believes Sunday isn't a media production
Values relationships over reach
Is somewhere between 30 and 500 members

And for the growing church

Growing churches face the opposite pressure: as numbers climb, the family atmosphere that made the church precious starts slipping through the cracks. Big churches spend years trying to recreate what they used to be. We help you not lose it in the first place.

Whether you are 30 members or 300, the work is the same: forming disciples through the historic Christian spiritual disciplines — prayer, Scripture, fellowship, giving, and service. SmallChurchApp is built around that work, not around it.

Pen-and-ink and watercolor illustration of three teenagers gathered around one phone in a church parking lot, checking the pack list for a youth outing as they load up the Hollis Chapel van behind them.

The honest roadmap

Where we are. Where we're going.

We don't sell vaporware. Here's what works today, what we're building this summer, and what's ready by public launch on Labor Day.

Now · Beta
Pilot churches onboarding
- Magic-link sign-in for every member
- Per-church URL (yourname.smallchurch.app)
- Events, prayer feed, devotionals, member directory
- Personal white-glove setup with the pastor
- Built-in tripwire monitoring so problems get caught before pastors do
Summer 2026
Hardening for everyone
- Self-serve church provisioning (no more "ask David")
- Email deliverability hardening (DMARC, sender reputation)
- Sermon companion: notes, follow-ups, weekday reminders
- Birthday + anniversary reminders for the whole congregation
- Pastor feedback shaping every release
Labor Day · Public launch
Open to every small church
- Anyone can sign up their church in under 10 minutes
- Transparent pricing — small-church friendly, founder-set
- Giving integration with the platforms small churches already use
- iOS + Android home-screen install (PWA)
- Polished onboarding for the pastor's first 10 minutes
- Event sign-ups with "I'm bringing ___" for meals, picnics, and care moments

One honest filter

This app is not for streaming more media to consumers. It is designed to deliver more moments for the family.

Two ways to be part of this

Pick what fits your church.

Pilot churches · limited

Apply for a beta spot

We're hand-picking a few churches between now and Labor Day. Your pastor talks to our pastor. We set everything up for you. You give us honest feedback. No charge during beta.

Church name

Pastor's name

Phone

City

State

Average Sunday attendance

Anything you'd like us to know?

We'll write back personally within a day or two. No demo deck.

No commitment

Just notify me at launch

If beta isn't right for you yet, drop your email and we'll let you know the day public signup opens — Labor Day, September 7, 2026.

"All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord's Supper), and to prayer."

— Acts 2:42

The "secret sauce" of the early church is still the recipe today.

Bringing more people into the Kingdom is your mission.
Helping you maintain a family environment is our pleasure.

99% of spiritual transformation happens away from the pew.

Tuesday rarely remembers Sunday.

Not a bulletin in your pocket. A blueprint in your hand.

The week, not just the worship service.

Your church, in your pocket, on the hard days.

The disciplines that form disciples.

Bible Reading

Prayer

Giving

Fellowship

Service

Built for the church that:

Where we are. Where we're going.

Pilot churches onboarding

Hardening for everyone

Open to every small church

Pick what fits your church.