AI for Your Faithful Church Stewardship
A Faithful Steward
for the Modern Church
Purpose-built AI that helps you shepherd faithfully — grounded in your church's own teaching, attentive to your people, and always pointing back to the shepherd, never away.
What's Already Happening
AI Has Already Arrived in the Church
It's no longer a question of whether — but how. Your people are already using AI for sermon prep, study, and honest questions of faith. The real question is whether it draws them toward their shepherd, or away.
Our Mission
Equipping Shepherds.
Strengthening the Sheep.
MinistryAI exists out of obedience to Jesus Christ — to his command to love God and neighbor and to make disciples of all nations. From this conviction flows our belief that AI, used wisely, can help the body of Christ proclaim the Gospel more broadly and care for its people more fully; used carelessly, it erodes the embodied, relational ministry at the heart of congregational life.
We exist to build a trusted, reliable AI platform that serves the church in two directions.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, funded by donors who share our vision — built to serve your sacred calling, never to replace it.
For pastors and leaders — dependable tools to better listen to, care for, and disciple their congregations.
For members and seekers — a safe, private place to bring questions and struggles, and be drawn toward the pastors and shepherds who lead them to Christ and his church.
Why MinistryAI
Built for What Matters Most
Our measure is not clicks, but trust, relationships, and lives drawn closer to Christ.
AI can help the body of Christ proclaim the Gospel more broadly and care for its people more fully.
It erodes the embodied, relational ministry at the heart of congregational life.
Who We Serve
Three People We Serve — One Flock
Each carries a different question. MinistryAI answers all three from the church's own teaching.
- Know and hear the whole flock — not only the vocal few
- Teaching grounded in your church's theology, not the open internet
- Reclaim time for prayer, preaching, sabbath, presence
- Gatherings aligned with your pastor's teaching
- Prepared with members' needs, prayers, and contexts in view
- Real needs carried to pastors — privately
- Honest questions answered from your church's own teaching
- A private place to pray, study, journal, and reflect
- A safe first step toward a pastor — never a substitute for one
Pastoral intelligence & congregational voice — so no sheep is unseen and unheard.
What We Build
Steward AI — In Order of the Mission
Most churches today lack the intense discipleship training the Great Commission requires — so we begin at the cornerstone, then equip the shepherd, then the community.
for members — the foundation
- Three discipleship courses — New Life, the Gospel of John, and Genesis
- The intense discipleship most churches are missing — study worthy of the Great Commission
- Q&A only from ingested teaching, cited — a shepherd's care one step away
for pastors — the shepherd equipped
- Sermon Studio — a seven-room ethical workflow — with Sermon Library
- Pastors lead the new style of ministry, drawing members into engagement
- Q&A Oversight — member exchanges surfaced to the shepherd for review
for ministry leaders & groups
- Leaders and members interacting together, with AI's help
- AI in an agentic role — facilitating engagement and productive struggle
- Never a chatbot substitute — always a bridge to persons
About the Cornerstone curriculum
Three discipleship courses — New Life, the Gospel of John, and Genesis — prepared across a lifetime of ministry by Rev. Don Meung Kim (1922–2013), and now offered to churches, seminaries, and missionaries around the world.
This is not a study for gathering more biblical information. It is a path that shapes a single soul: to know the heart of God, and to come home to Him as the forgiven prodigal.
“I am a debtor.”— Romans 1:14
For Whom
Built for the Global Church
A nonprofit conviction: AI must deepen the work of ministry — never replace the minister.
In an age when people may rely on AI more than on persons, ministry succeeds through personal, relationship-based care. Every workspace is built to protect and deepen it.
- Shepherd Studio keeps the pastor at the center of sermon, discipleship, and every member Q&A
- Cornerstone draws members toward their shepherd — a first step to a person, never a substitute
- Oversight and escalation turn every AI exchange into an occasion for personal ministry
- Train graduates in Shepherd Studio — ready to adopt it in the churches they will serve
- Adapt Shepherd Studio for the classroom, pursuing the same objective: engagement
- Teach with Cornerstone — students learn to lead Bible study, then carry it, as-is or adapted, into their own ministry
- Cornerstone and Shepherd Studio carried to the mission field — Community Studio to follow
- The language of choice for each region — many offered today, more as the mission requires
- The same principle in every tongue: relationship over reliance
What We Build On
Four Commitments
These aren't claims layered on top of a standard product. They are the design decisions that shape everything MinistryAI does — and doesn't do.
Technology that serves your sacred calling, never replaces it. The pastor is fed by God before feeding others; the tool only ever assists.
Every answer stays grounded in your church's own teaching and approved materials — not the open internet.
Designed to draw people toward their shepherd and one another — not toward a screen.
Your church's data stays isolated and under your governance — never sold, never used to train outside models.
The Technology
How the Platform Is Built
Relationship-aware AI orchestration, grounded in your materials and designed to defer to your shepherds.
Grounded in a vetted body of your church's materials — doctrine, liturgy, approved sermons — so guidance reflects your teaching, not a borrowed theology.
Each studio draws only from your approved materials, with citations you can verify. Designed to keep answers grounded, not guessing.
When someone is in real distress, the system is designed to step back and point them to a pastor or care-team member. Presence over precision.
We are developing safeguards to keep each interaction theologically sound and pastorally appropriate, with explicit opt-in for sensitive information.
Open-source · your own customizable workspace · congregational data private and under your governance.
The Difference
Not Just Any AI
General AI tools were not built for the Church. MinistryAI was. Here's what that difference is designed to look like in practice.
| Dimension | General AI | MinistryAI |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge Source | The open internet — orthodox and heretical, blended without distinction. | Only your approved materials. Nothing else enters an answer. |
| Source Transparency | Rarely shows sources; may fabricate citations with confidence. | Designed to tie each answer to a specific source you can verify. |
| When It Doesn't Know | Generates a plausible-sounding answer anyway. | Designed to defer — and point the person to human leadership. |
| User Awareness | Treats a pastor and a new believer identically. | Calibrates depth and access by role. |
| Your Data | Often logged; may be used to train the provider's models. | Isolated and under your governance — never sold or used to train outside models. |
| Pastoral Care | No concept of pastoral routing or human escalation. | Designed to recognize when someone needs a pastor, not an AI — and route accordingly. |
| Individual Privacy | No privacy handling for sensitive disclosures. | Consent-based controls; members choose their own privacy level. |
| Mission Alignment | Built for general task completion. | Built for one purpose: serving the Church faithfully. |
How We Protect Members
When Someone Shares Vulnerably,
They Are Safe Here
Many people hesitate to seek pastoral care because they fear exposure. MinistryAI is designed to remove that barrier — guarding what is sacred while giving leadership the insight to shepherd well.
Four privacy tiers — designed for the member to choose at the point of submission
Designed to strip identifying details and contribute only to aggregate patterns. Leadership sees themes; no one is meant to be traceable to an individual.
Sent directly to a designated pastoral care provider with identity intact, and excluded from aggregate analysis. Between the individual and their pastor.
A specific pastor knows who they are, while a sanitized version informs broader pastoral awareness. Personal attention alongside collective insight.
For non-sensitive matters — theological questions, teaching feedback, curiosities — members may choose full visibility.
These are product design commitments. For how we handle data as an organization, read our Privacy Policy.
What Adoption Takes
Similar Barriers, Whatever Your Size
Three barriers stand between a church and trustworthy AI. MinistryAI is built to remove each one.
Free removes the biggest barrier. The rest is what partnership is for.
Our Vision
Equipping churches with AI for transformative stewardship — out of obedience to Jesus Christ.
The Greatest Commandments
Deepen love for God and neighbor. Every function is meant to enable or protect relationships.
The Great Commission
Spread the Gospel ever farther, with soul care at the heart of human flourishing.
For God's kingdom and glory.
Who We Are
Committed to Christ & His Church
A nonprofit — service, not profit. MinistryAI is our ministry.
David Lee, Ph.D.
- Co-creator of the HDMI standard
- Ph.D. in EECS, UC Berkeley
- Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Seoul Theological University
Rae Cho, Th.D., M.B.A.
- Th.D. & M.Div., Duke Divinity School
- M.B.A., Stanford
- Taught theology & church leadership
Andrew Wajs
- 25 years in enterprise AI
- AI orchestration architecture
- M.S.E.E., University of the Witwatersrand
Alongside our leadership, a volunteer community of Christian AI professionals and a theological advisory group of pastors and seminary faculty help guard the work.
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Ready to Serve Your Ministry?
MinistryAI is available to churches, denominations, seminaries, and ministry organizations. We'd love to hear about your context.