Doing Church Together

01The Toolbox

The Church Resource Hub

A shared library of systems, processes, and working documents from real churches, more than 150 resources across every ministry area: orientation packets and budgets, event playbooks and safety policies, Online Safe Sanctuary Training, frameworks and worship plans. Nothing theoretical, nothing gated; almost every card is a document a congregation actually uses, offered so yours can adapt it instead of starting from a blank page.

Where the cards come from most hold the actual working file, uploaded as the church uses it. Some describe a process that is real but was never written down in one place; those carry an "Edited Summary" label, meaning an AI assistant first drafted the description of how it happens from the church's own records, committee minutes, pastor's notes, and reports, and was then read and revised.

How to use it search for what you need or browse by ministry area, download the file, and make it your own. Stars mark the cornerstone documents, and the contribute page lets your church add its best work to the library.

How it connects any conversation on The Table can attach a card from here, and the best threads come back into the library as new cards. For those new to ministry, every chapter of the Pastor's Handbook points to the live cards it relies on.

Browse the Hub

02The Compass

Comparative Theology

A map of the wider family of Christian traditions. Compare what the churches believe, doctrine by doctrine, and trace how they branched across two thousand years, from the early church to the many streams alive today. Every tradition is drawn fairly from its own voice, so the differences stay honest and the common ground stays real. An interactive assistant is built in, and it answers your questions from the source material each tradition recognizes.

How to use it pick any two questions and watch the traditions sort themselves across the map, read a single doctrine straight across the families, or open a tradition to meet its founders and the authors you would find on the shelf today. A built-in assistant compares any two traditions for you and answers from the sources.

How it connects the hub and The Table show you how congregations actually practice ministry. This shows you where any congregation's tradition sits inside the whole family, so you can see where your own stands and understand the neighbors you share a town and a mission with.

Open Comparative Theology

03The Conversation

The Table

The library hands you the document. The Table hands you the colleagues. It is a conversation space for clergy and church leaders, newly set, where a question about starting a pumpkin patch gets answered by someone who has run one. Every conversation is tagged by ministry area, and the answers stay put, so the next pastor with the same question finds the thread instead of starting from scratch.

How to use it come with a question or come with an answer. Post under the ministry area it belongs to, attach the hub document it concerns, and reply to colleagues when you know something they need. Signing in is a single email link, with no password to remember.

How it connects every thread can point at a resource from the hub, and the best conversations get distilled back into the library as new resources, so what colleagues work out together is not lost to the scroll.

Join the Conversation

Additional Resources

For those new to the work, and for the thinking underneath

Two more pieces sit alongside the three tools. Neither is required to use the others.

For First-Time Pastors

The Pastor's Handbook

For pastors in a first appointment and people new to ministry.

Read the Handbook

A digital field guide for leading a local church, written for first-time and newly appointed pastors, Course of Study students, and workshop cohorts, and for anyone stepping into ministry without training. Thirty-four chapters across eight parts walk the whole job, from the pastor's own call and inner life through worship, care, discipleship, missions, money, and leading change, each chapter teaching one piece of the work in plain language, telling a true story of how it went at a real church, and ending with concrete steps.

How it was written the frameworks in it are one pastor's own, worked out over fifteen years of doing the job, and the content of every chapter came out of real experience and personal documents. An AI assistant drafted against the lived experience and personal writings to create a steady structure across all thirty-four chapters. This document is created by Claude out of hundreds of thousands of words written over fifteen years regarding practical ministry. Each chapter has been read and revised for accuracy.

How it connects every "Grab the tools" list in the handbook points to a live card in the hub. The book tells you what the tool is for; the hub hands it to you.

The Thinking Underneath

One pastor's way of working through theology and practice

Explore the Theology

This began as one pastor's file drawer: almost twenty years of sermons, ordination papers, Bible studies, and weekly notes to a congregation. Gathered in one place, those pages turned out to hold a connected theology, so it was mapped: twenty-three doctrines, each hanging by a visible line from the foundation it depends on, alongside the sermons themselves and the practice library his church runs on. It is not offered as the definitive word on anything. It is a real-world example of a pastor working out his theology in the open, in a visual, connected way, and an assistant answers your questions from the full text of it, anchored in what was actually written and preached rather than in the internet's guesses.

How to use it click any doctrine to read its full treatment, in either an academic or plain-language version, and follow the connections from one locus into the next, or simply ask the assistant a question, about grace, about Scripture, about women in ministry, and read the sources it answers from.

How it connects the practice in the hub and the handbook stands on this thinking. If the book ever makes you ask why behind a how, this is where the why lives.