Stand up your own Free Church ChMS in an afternoon. A calm, premium, step-by-step guide walks you from a zipped package to a live church platform — on ordinary shared hosting, or with one Docker command. Plain English, no jargon, and a "Save as branded PDF" button so your team always has it on hand. Free forever, fully self-hosted.
The starting point for every self-hosted church — and the foundation the whole Knowledge Base is built on. Free forever, deployed on your own hosting so your congregation's data never leaves your control.
Unzip the package, upload the files, make one folder writable, open your site and create your own administrator, connect Claude and your tools, then invite your team. Numbered cards, plain language, nothing skipped.
Run it on any ordinary PHP host, or bring it up with a single docker compose up. The guide covers both paths, plus what to check before you start.
One button turns the whole guide into a Boreon-watermarked PDF using the Free Church ChMS Brand Kit, so your staff and volunteers always have the steps in hand.
It flows straight into the full in-app Knowledge Base and Office Helper — start here, then go as deep as you like, all written for non-technical church staff.
Follow the guide and run Free Church ChMS on your own server — your data, your control, your church. It is free, self-hosted, and yours forever, in the name of Jesus Christ.