ChurchSurface

For pastors

Someone near you is looking for a church tonight.

They're asking their phone before they ask a friend, and most churches never make it into the answer. We fix what the assistants get wrong about you, keep it true, and tell you every month what changed.

See what AI says about your church Free. Nothing to install.

Sunday, 9:40 PM. Four miles from your building.

“What churches near me have a good program for kids?”

Here are a few in your area with well established children's ministries:

  1. 1.Trinity Fellowship, about 6 miles away
  2. 2.Redeemer Community Church, about 7 miles away
  3. 3.Northside Bible Church, about 9 miles away

Your church wasn't mentioned, and it's closer than all three.

Two things are going wrong right now, and neither one tells you it's happening.

Nobody calls the church office to say an assistant gave them the wrong address. The whole problem is silent, which is why almost every pastor we talk to has never checked.

One

You're not in the answer at all

Somebody asks for churches nearby, or churches with a good kids program, or somewhere their family would be welcome. A list comes back. Your church isn't on it, even when you're the closest one and the best fit.

This is the expensive one. A wrong service time loses somebody who already knew your name. Being left out of the list loses somebody who was never going to learn it.
Two

You're in it, but it's wrong

When your church does come up, the details often come from an old page somebody wrote years ago, or a directory nobody has touched since. What we typically find:

  • ×Service times that changed two or three years ago
  • ×An address from before the building move
  • ×A phone number that rings somewhere nobody answers
  • ×Kids and youth ministry listed for the wrong ages, or not at all
  • ×Ministries you stopped running, and ones you started that nobody knows about

We find it, fix it, and keep it fixed.

Not a website builder and not another church app. It sits on top of whatever you already run, and the work is ours rather than yours.

We find out what's wrong

We put the questions your neighbors are actually asking to the major assistants and record every answer, including the ones you don't appear in.

We publish the truth

Service times, location, phone, kids and youth, the ministries you run, the help you offer, and your public events. Published on your own site and your Google listing in the form assistants read.

We keep it true

Things change. Service times move, a ministry starts, an event passes. We check every month and correct what's drifted, so it doesn't quietly go stale again.

Every month

You get one page telling you exactly where you stand.

The same set of questions, asked again, with every answer recorded beside last month's. You'll see whether you're appearing more often, what was still wrong, and what we corrected.

What we won't tell you is how many people asked. Nobody can see that. The assistants don't publish their queries and anyone who claims otherwise is guessing. What we can show you is exactly what they say when asked, and whether it's getting better.

Sample page. Your church, this month.

“Churches near me with a kids program”Listed 2nd
“What time are services”Correct
“Churches with a grief support group”Not listed
“Where is the church located”Corrected Aug 4
“Youth group for high schoolers”Listed 1st
Appeared in9 of 12 questions

The three levels

Getting found is the first rung, not the whole ladder.

Each level takes more of the work off your desk than the one before it. Start wherever makes sense for your church and move up when you're ready.

  1. Level one

    Found

    Your church is in the answer, and everything in it is true.

    Everything above. We audit what the assistants say about you, correct it, publish your service times, location, contact, kids and youth, ministries and public events in the form they read, keep watching, and send the monthly page. Events go out with real dates and an expiry, so when one is over it comes down on its own instead of lingering as a stale answer.

  2. Level two

    Connected

    Your church management system does the updating for you.

    We connect to Planning Center, and to Breeze and the others after it. The events your team already marks public flow straight out, and the record follows what's in your ChMS rather than waiting on somebody to remember to tell us. Nobody at the church has a new thing to keep up with.

  3. Level three

    Welcomed

    People can take the next step without ever leaving the conversation.

    A parent asks an assistant about your VBS and registers their child right there, into your Planning Center. No form to find, no page to land on, no second visit where you lose most of them. This is what the connection at level two is for.

    Three things stay true of every registration. Somebody at your church sees and confirms it before it counts. No child's information is stored by us. And you can switch it off for any event, or all of them, without calling anyone.

Start here. It's free.

We'll check your church and send you what we find.

Pull out your phone right now and ask one:

“What churches near [your town] have a good kids program?”

If you're not in that answer, that's what everyone in your area is being told. Or let us do it properly. We'll ask the major assistants about a dozen ways someone might look for a church like yours and mail you a one page summary of what came back. No account, no obligation, and no call unless you want one.

Your free visibility check

One page, emailed within two business days.

We'll only use your address to send the report. We won't add you to a mailing list or pass it on. Questions go to hello@churchsurface.com.