What does Free Church ChMS do?
It predicts who's disengaging, points you to your next leaders and donors, and automates the work your staff never has time for: follow-ups, engagement tracking, financial reporting, content, all of it. One platform instead of six.
Does it replace our ChMS?
Yes — completely. Members, giving, attendance, check-in, worship planning, accounting, analytics, and AI on your own Claude key: it's a full church management system, not an add-on. It still connects to Planning Center, Breeze, CCB and 47+ tools, so moving over takes minutes — you just won't need them anymore.
And here's what we really replace: the bill. Every other ChMS charges your church to reach the data that was already yours. We refuse to. We reinvented the model so the money that used to feed a software company feeds hungry children instead. Free Church ChMS is free forever — and every gift the Lord moves you to give goes to the Good Samaritan ministry. You keep your data and your budget; a child gets fed. ✝
Who is it for?
Pastors and church leaders who'd rather spend their hours leading the church than babysitting software. If you're juggling a handful of platforms and people still slip through the cracks, this is the thing we built for you.
How fast is setup?
Instantly. It's a single login — or an app you host yourself (one command with Docker) — with none of the two-to-three-week onboarding slog every other ChMS puts you through. Log in and you're live: there's no separate ChMS to connect, because this is your ChMS. Switching over? We import your members and giving from your old system in minutes — free. Want it handled for you? Our team sets you up the same day, also free.
Who built this?
Free Church ChMS is built by Boreon and KWAM, engineers and church folks who got tired of watching congregations lose people they could have kept. It's 100% free and open source, hosted with data sovereignty in Switzerland. The code is yours to run. Just ask.
How is this actually free?
We believe churches shouldn't pay for tools that help them serve people. The whole platform is free forever, funded by the love we carry in our souls for Jesus Christ, and never by selling your congregation's data.
Free Church ChMS is fully open source. We'll hand you the code to run in your own web hosting and help you set it up for free. Just ask. We say yes to every church.
Is our congregation's data safe?
Yes — and you choose where it lives. Your church's records belong to your church, never to us: every connection is encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS), passwords are securely hashed, and we never use your congregation's data to train shared AI models. Because Free Church ChMS is fully self-hosted, you can run your own private instance wherever you like — one command with Docker on your own computer, on Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS, or on any ordinary PHP web host — and our Deployment Guide walks you through each path, step by step. Prefer it handled for you? We'll even set your church up with its own dedicated home in our secure Swiss datacenters in Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭 — genuine data sovereignty, your records walled off to your church alone.
What size church is this for?
Any church with a desire to stop losing people. It scales from a 150-person congregation to a 10,000-person multi-site church, and the intelligence gets sharper the more data it sees.
