Your church's own chat on your site
Name it and it answers visitors about Sundays, events, kids, giving and sermons, from your site and your own answers.
Your church site can carry a chat of its own, with the name you give it. It answers visitors from what the site already shows anyone (your welcome, the next services up to four months ahead, your next three public events and your Calendar, the address and phone, Give, Kids, your published sermons) and from the answers you write yourself. It never reads your people, schedules or plans, and it changes nothing. PraisePad answers it at no cost to your church, and visitors always read that it's an AI assistant answered by PraisePad.
Turn it on
Settings, then PraisePad Church, under Your site's chat (owners and admins, with two-step sign-in like the rest of that page).
- Turn the chat on. It comes with a paid plan. On the beta, ask PraisePad to turn it on for you.
- Its name: two to sixteen letters. Empty means your church's short name ("Ask Grace"). It can't be PraisePad, a name of God, a title like Pastor, a counselor, another assistant's name, or someone in your church.
- How it says hello and Questions to start with, in English and Spanish, written for you until you write your own. "Write the Spanish for me" drafts the Spanish for you to read before you save.
- Its own answers: up to twenty questions and answers in your words: parking, what to wear, the youth group. The chat gives them as written; they're public.
- . It's live at once: a button on every page but Give, the Kids forms and Me, and its own page for links.
The chat uses your site's color and picture; there's nothing new to pick.
What it won't do
Asked something it can't answer, it offers "Ask the church": the visitor can send the question to your owners and admins by email, with no record made. Someone having a hard time is offered Pray for me and your phone, never counsel. On what your church believes, it gives only your own published words, with the link, or says it can't speak for you. Asked whether it's a person, it says it's an AI.
This month
The same page shows how many questions this month, out of 3,000, and what they were about (service times, kids, giving, sermons, visiting, and a word or two for what it couldn't answer), never a visitor's words: PraisePad keeps none.
Share it
Under Share kit, once it's on: the chat's link, a QR code for a poster, and a button in your color to paste into your own website.
Open in PraisePad to try it