In 30 days, ChurchStack replaces your patchwork of Google Sheets, group texts, and sign-up clipboards with a full digital operations system — the same one running at Abundant Life today. Includes leadership photography, custom manuals, and admin training.
Most 150-to-500-member churches are held together by one overworked person and a stack of tools nobody chose intentionally. When they burn out, the whole thing collapses.
Volunteer sign-ups, prayer requests, event details — all buried in a scrolling chat.
Sign-up sheets that get lost, damaged, or never entered into anything digital.
Nobody remembers the login. The theme is broken. Contact info is wrong.
Leadership headshots that don't match. Event coverage nobody has time to edit.
Nobody knows what accounts they had, who to hand off to, or how to lock things down.
Elders and pastors flying blind. Reports done manually every quarter, if ever.
No custom build. No months of discovery. Every deliverable already exists and is running today at ALCOD. ChurchStack is that entire system, forked and rebranded for your church.
This isn't discovery consulting. It's execution against a proven playbook. From signed contract to Go-Live in four weeks, no drama.
M365 tenant setup, staff account provisioning, domain configuration, brand assets intake.
Dashboard fork goes live under your domain. All 5 core forms deployed and wired to Teams notifications.
Ministry modules deployed. Digital front door live on your domain. On-site photography shoot.
Custom manuals delivered. 90-min admin training (recorded). Keys handed over. 30-day support window opens.
No tiers. No hidden fees. No surprise scope. Everything on this page is in the standard package.
| Hire a part-time IT contractor (10 hrs/wk × 1 year) | $20,800 |
| Custom church tech consulting project | $15,000 – $30,000 |
| Church management software + integrator | $3,000 + ongoing monthly |
| Just the photography shoot alone | $2,500 |
| ChurchStack — all of the above, delivered in 30 days | $10,000 |
Planning Center, Realm, and ChMS are great church management systems — they focus on attendance, giving, and groups. ChurchStack focuses on the operations layer AROUND that — how people request announcements, how volunteers sign up, how the IT admin handles support, how your leadership sees everything at a glance. You can absolutely use both.
Absolutely. Book the 20-minute call and I'll share a live demo of the fully-branded demonstration instance. If you want to talk to a real church currently running the full stack, I can arrange that too.
Mid-size: 150 to 500 members. Small enough that a single admin is still carrying most of the operational load; big enough that the tools they're using are actively breaking down. If your church is much smaller or much larger, I'll happily refer you to someone better suited.
You'll need an active M365 Business Basic (or higher) subscription for the tenant. If you don't have one, we walk you through the setup during Week 1. Cost is typically $6-15 per user per month depending on plan.
You do. Every tool lives under your Microsoft 365 tenant, on your domain, with your admin holding the keys. If ChurchStack disappeared tomorrow, your setup keeps running. The optional monthly retainer is exactly that — optional.
ChurchStack is denomination-agnostic. The tools don't care whether you're Pentecostal, Baptist, Methodist, non-denominational, or anywhere else. The founder is an active church IT ministry admin, so the sensibility is ministry-forward regardless of tradition.
The photography engagement is delivered by Pro Vision Multimedia Enterprises, a SWaM-certified Virginia small business run by a Certified Professional Photographer (CPP). Included: one event shoot (up to 3 hours) plus a leadership headshot session (up to 10 people). Files are fully edited and delivered with perpetual internal-use rights.
Three paths: (1) sign the optional $500/mo retainer for ongoing support and a quarterly photography refresh, (2) go pay-as-you-go at $150/hr for future work, or (3) run fully independently using the manuals and training recording. Your call — you own everything either way.
Book a 20-minute call. Zero pressure, zero obligation. Worst case, you walk away with free ideas you can implement on your own.