Church Tech Today shares "5 AI Governance Questions Every Pastor Should Answer This Month" (6-minute read), on the policy your church already made but never wrote down. Staff are pasting counseling notes and giving histories into free chatbots, each setting the rules by conscience. Kenny Jahng's fix is a policy with edges answering five questions: who decides, why it matters theologically, how tools get used (AI drafts, a human finishes), where the hard lines sit, and what you write down.

Editor's note: Jahng closes by recommending his own paid course, AI Policies Made Simple. The five-question framework stands on its own — you can draft the policy in your own words without it.

REACHRIGHT shares "The New Rules of Church SEO in 2026" (45-minute watch), on getting found now that AI answers — ChatGPT, Google's AI overview, Gemini, Claude — sit above the old list of links. The hosts walk through five moves any church can do without touching code: claim and fully fill your Google Business Profile, write homepage FAQs the way people type them into a chatbot, earn reviews steadily, tag social posts for local search, and keep your name, address, and hours consistent everywhere.

Editor's note: REACHRIGHT is a church marketing agency; it links a free "church near me" ranking test and offers to do the listing cleanup for hire. Every one of the five rules is DIY — none requires paying them.

Phil Cooke shares "AI Isn't Coming for Christian Media. Predictability Is." (2-minute read), reframing the question leaders keep asking. The danger isn't that AI tells human stories better — it can't sit with a grieving family. It's that many ministries have become content factories, producing the same sermon clip, devotional, and post on a formula software can copy faster and cheaper. Cooke's counter: tell real stories, reward original thinking, develop creative people, and use AI as an assistant, not a replacement.

REACHRIGHT shares "Your Most Committed Members Watch Other Pastors All Week" (7-minute watch), on the "7-day pulpit" — the feed of clips and podcasts filling your people's week between Sundays. Citing a Hartford Institute survey of 24,000+ churchgoers, it notes that 46% regularly view more than one church, yet they still tithe and serve, so nothing on your dashboard reveals it. The fix needs no budget: pull one sermon clip weekly, title it the way people actually search, and make it easy to share.

Editor's note: REACHRIGHT is a church marketing agency and pitches a free "social media scorecard" download. The distribution advice — you have a findability problem, not a production problem — holds regardless.

Planning Center shares "Switching to Planning Center Giving? Import Your Donation History" (2-minute read), announcing a tool that brings your full donation history into Giving. Export a CSV from your old platform, upload and map the columns, review the rows it flags, then finalize — with a two-week undo window. For a church mid-migration, the payoff is one place for year-end statements and multi-year trends, and you can import without upgrading your account.

Editor's note: This is a vendor blog post, not independent reporting. The import tool is genuinely useful, but confirm your old platform's export format before relying on a single year-end statement.

ICYMI, Church Production shares "Small vs. Large Churches: The Data Reveals a Widening Gap" (3-minute watch), on survey data showing what separates church sizes. For small churches the binding constraint isn't money — it's people: the small churches surveyed reported 75% find volunteer recruitment at least somewhat difficult and 79% run mostly on volunteers. The takeaway reframes your next dollar: if you're small, systems that are simpler to operate matter more than ones with more features.

Food for thought: “But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase." [Daniel 12:4, The Holy Bible, New Living Translation]

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