Everyone in your church is in the middle of a story. Shep gives your whole team one place to keep up with it, so walking with people happens on purpose instead of by accident. Connects with your church management system or runs on its own. Built by a church team, for church teams.
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Your church management system can tell you how many people showed up. It cannot tell you anything about who those people are becoming. So the real story of your people ends up in Google Docs, spreadsheets, Apple Notes, text threads, and the notes that live only in a pastor's head. When a team member asks “has anyone heard from them?”, nobody knows for sure.
I sat with her Sunday. She is bringing her sister next week.
That is so awesome. Do you know her name? I'll make sure to say hi.
When do they get back?
This week. They said they will be here Sunday!
How well are we walking with people? Shep asks it of the team, every week, about every person.
Every note a leader writes builds one story the whole team can read: notes, 1 on 1 write-ups, milestones and check-ins, in the order their story was written. Mention a teammate, ask a question, tag the person you met with, react, and reply, so the team gets excited about people's wins and breakthroughs. A new team member can catch up on a person in ninety seconds. Nobody chases updates in a group text again.
Yes! Does she prefer Sundays or the Wednesday crew?
Sundays. She said the 9am is her service.
A full native app, not a shrunken website. Notes get written in the parking lot, ten minutes after the conversation, while it is still true. No fishing through Google Drive or an Apple note to find what someone told you last month.
“How has your life been radically different?”
Noah has been around since January. He is on the tech team, asked about leading a group in March, and has been quiet since his dad's diagnosis in May.
A note or a private 1 on 1, entered right after the meeting or the call.
The headcount, and by hand the people you actually saw at church.
Salvation, baptism, a first small group. The celebration schedules itself.
For those important highlights coming up in someone's life.
A mention, a follow-up due, a birthday on Friday. The team stays in the loop.
Their whole story and the follow-ups still open, read before you walk in.
As a pastor, you see every conversation happening across the church in one place. Not to micromanage. To know. You can see who your team is reaching, who is being celebrated, who needs a touch this week, and who nobody has heard from.
Not everything belongs in the team feed. Four rules, enforced in the database rather than in a policy document.
Only the person who logged it and the leaders you have given Private notes access, usually your pastors, can read it. A 1 on 1 cannot be made public.
A private note is not in the feed, not on the timeline, not in a count. If you cannot read it, Shep says nothing at all.
It reads team visible notes only, never private ones, and it never writes anything into someone's story on its own.
The Known score is a staff view. It is for the team that is responsible, and for nobody else.
The 1 on 1 is not here. Nothing says it happened.
“How has your life been radically different?”
Baptisms. Joining a team. The anniversary of the day someone said yes. Shep surfaces milestones so your team can reach out for the good moments too. Imagine it is six months after a team member's baptism and Shep reminds you. You get to ask, “How has your life been radically different?”
Tick Keep in prayers on any note and that person goes on a prayer list the whole team sees: on the dashboard, on the phone, and in the weekly summary email. Names and the one line that matters, so your team is praying for real people about real things every week, not only when a crisis makes it obvious. When the season passes, take them off the list, and the story becomes one long praise report.
Lands in every teammate's inbox, with the notes behind it.
Assign a shepherd to each person so someone is always responsible. No more assuming somebody else has them. Shepherds see their people, their follow-ups, and who needs a touch this week.
Baptism, membership, joining a group, leadership. Every step has someone responsible for it and a clear next step, and Shep keeps the story. When someone stalls, Shep says so, and it says who. On completion Shep records the milestone and enrolls them in the next journey.
Walk people through what matters: baptism, a team, a small group. See at a glance where everyone is.
Grace Hall has been in Class scheduled for 30 days. You are her shepherd on the Baptism journey.
Thursday, 8:00 AM. Escalates to the pastors if nothing moves.
Ryan Cole was baptized on March 3. Milestone recorded on his story, and he is now in Join a Small Group.
The one year anniversary comes back as a celebration next March.
Before a 1 on 1, Shep reads their whole story and the follow-ups still open: every note, every milestone, everything the team has written. Private 1 on 1s stay private, even from the AI. Then it surfaces what matters. The follow-up someone promised two months ago. The question that never got answered. The prayer request from spring. The next step that was named and never taken. AI suggests the questions worth asking, so nothing gets forgotten or lost, and the conversation picks up where the last one left off.
Noah has been around since January. He is on the tech team, asked about leading a group in March, and has been quiet since his dad's diagnosis in May.
Research from What Every Pastor Should Know (Gary McIntosh and Charles Arn) found that new people who stay make an average of seven friends in their first six months. Those who leave make fewer than two. And the first year decides: 82% of church members who drop out leave within it, most near the six month mark or the twelve month mark. Dropout is not random. Shep keeps the relationships your team knows about on each person's story: a spouse, a group leader, a serving teammate, a friend. Add them as you learn them, and see at a glance who is surrounded and who is standing alone.
That is the difference between staying and leaving.
Most near the six month or twelve month mark.
Nobody on the team has recorded a friend, group, or team yet.
It does not score the person. It scores the team, and how well they are walking with them. A Known score from 0 to 100, and every point is explainable, built from the story your team has already written: 1 on 1s, notes, milestones, whether someone has a shepherd, how recently someone had a real touch, and, when your church management system is connected, group and serving attendance. If there is no history, we assume the person is floating, and that is the point. No spiritual score. No leaderboard. Giving never touches it. New people get a grace window before they are scored at all. It is never shown to the person. It is for you. When someone starts to drift, you see it early, while it is still a conversation and not a loss.
Shep reads the story. Your team makes the call.
Never shown to Tom. This is how well we know him, not how he is doing.
New people get a grace window before they are scored at all.
Shep is for churches that want to be intentional about their relationships and build a culture of strong discipleship by putting people first. For pastors, staff, group and team leaders: everyone who is already walking with people. When your team can see the whole story, discipleship stops being accidental.
Every person rooted in scripture and walking with someone who knows their story.
Friends, a group, a shepherd. The connections that keep people here.
Every leader raising up the next one, and seeing it happen.
Built inside a real church team at C3 Church Orange County, in the middle of the work it is meant to serve.
Every plan includes your Owner, Admins, and Leaders, the people who run it. Add more for a flat price per user. Group leaders and volunteers who shepherd a few people join free, as many as you have. 14 day free trial, no credit card.
Annual is two months free.
For a team shepherding its own list of people.
4 users included, then $12 per month each. Shepherds are always free.
For the whole church, synced with your database.
6 users included, then $12 per month each. Shepherds are always free.
Several campuses, or a bigger team.
Users to fit your team. Shepherds are always free.
Swipe sideways to compare all three plans.
| Compare plans | Team | Church | Multisite |
|---|---|---|---|
| Users included | 4 | 6 | Custom |
| Extra users | $12 per month each | $12 per month each | Custom |
| Shepherds | Free, unlimited | Free, unlimited | Free, unlimited |
| People | 75 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Church management system sync | |||
| Attendance, groups, serving | |||
| Notes, follow-ups, Their Story | |||
| Assigned shepherds | |||
| Team activity feed | |||
| Private 1 on 1s | |||
| Milestone celebrations | |||
| Keep in prayers | |||
| Who needs a touch this week | |||
| Known score | 1 on 1s, notes, milestones | Plus group and serving attendance | Plus group and serving attendance |
| AI 1 on 1 prep | |||
| Journeys | 5 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Connections | |||
| Roles and permissions | |||
| Support | Priority |
Disciples get made one person at a time. Shep gives a team what that takes: the story, the next step, and enough visibility to keep showing up.
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