You're doing the work of a whole team. Let's give you one.

The small stuff that slips when there's more work than hours.

None of these are big on their own, and every church site I've worked on has had a list like this. A second set of hands catches them before guests do.

I'm happy to walk through any of these on a quick call, whether or not we work together.

A menu organized around the guest's questions.

Today's menu has 26 links in four department dropdowns. The new menu has six plain-language sections, with Give and Plan Your Visit always visible. Every link gets a one-line description so a guest knows where it goes before they click.

The ministry names your congregation already knows stay on the pages. Guests just get a plain-language way in.

Run Pear Orchard's communications from one simple hub.

Simple Church Hub is the communications software I built from a decade of running church comms. Requests, events, projects, volunteers and your weekly staff meeting live in one place your whole team can see. It also feeds the new website, so approved events show up there without anyone retyping them.

These are real screens from the live demo, a sample church called Simple Church. Pear Orchard's hub would use your own ministries, events and people.

Inbox

Every request and event lands in one place.

Ministry leaders use one simple request form, and new events flow in from Pear Orchard's church calendar every hour. You decide how big a push each one gets, then approve, dismiss or reply in a click.

• Reads your calendar but never changes it
• Repeating events, like Wednesday Night Supper, roll up into one card
• Each event gets a suggested tier: T1 for the biggest pushes like Christmas Eve, T3 for a simple mention

Plan & 6-week map

See what's promoted where, six Sundays out.

The next six Sundays across the top, your channels down the side. Every square shows what's going out and whether it's ready, so Operation Christmas Child and Advent never collide on the same Sunday.

• Color-coded status: To do, In progress, In review, Ready
• Key dates for each week right at the top
• Quarter and full-calendar views for longer planning

Channels

Your channels, named the way Pear Orchard uses them.

Start with the basics and add your own: stage announcements, worship slides, the bulletin, the Weekly Updates email, social media, the website, community calendars. Rename any channel and set its due day.

• Suggested channels you can turn on with a tap
• Turning a channel off never deletes anything

Projects

Big events get their own home.

Christmas Eve, VBS, Operation Christmas Child or a new sermon series each get a project with a lead, a stage and a to-do list built from a template.

• Tabs for channels, copy & notes, to-dos, files, budget, tickets and people
• Team chat: tag someone with @ and they get an email and a notification
• Ready-made checklists for common church events

My Work

Everyone knows what's theirs this week.

Each person sees their own to-dos from every project, sorted by what's due, and checks them off as they go.

• Today, next week and later, in order
• Overdue items flagged so nothing slips

Team & volunteers

Your creative team, finally organized.

Add staff and volunteers with their comms roles, like photographer, slides and lyrics, livestream, social media and website updates, then fill in who's covering each Sunday.

• Volunteers don't need a login
• Each person gets a private link to accept or decline from their phone
• Declines show up right away, so you can find someone else

Weekly Meeting

Your staff meeting, half-done before it starts.

The weekly communications update drafts itself from your map and projects. Take notes, log decisions and turn action items into to-dos.

• Open items from last week carry over automatically
• Every past meeting is searchable
• Email the notes to your team in one click

How I'd set it up for Pear Orchard

The demo takes about two minutes. Step into Simple Church as its communications director, with no setup or credit card.