This is the main thing we do. We come to your church, sit where a guest sits, listen to your leaders, and help you build a church that makes disciples and doesn't run on one person. The software is a byproduct. The work is this.
You take the Church Vitality Check, we read it together on a 15-minute call, and then we tell you honestly which of the options below fits, if any. Some churches take the plan from the call and run with it themselves. That's a good outcome too.
Three minutes. How much runs on the pastor, and what a first-time guest actually experiences.
Fifteen minutes with someone who has pastored a church your size. No pitch.
An intensive, a build, coaching, the cohort, or nothing yet. You'll hear it straight.
On-site, with your leaders in the room. A system the church owns when we leave.
Four ways in. All of them are built for churches of 250 and under, and three of them happen on-site, because you can't learn a church from a Zoom window. The prices below are founding rates for our first five churches; the standard rate is beside each one.
Fifteen minutes, you and Pastor Steve. We look at your Vitality Check together and talk about what's actually weighing on the church.
For: every church. This is the front door to everything else on this page.
We come to you for a weekend. Sunday we experience your church the way a first-time guest does. Monday we spend the day with you and your leadership team. You end with a one-page plan you can run yourselves.
For: churches that want clarity and a plan, and have leaders who can carry it.
For churches ready to change how the church runs, not just learn what's wrong. Three on-site visits across ninety days, calls in between, and your leadership team in the room the whole way.
For: a pastor who is tired of being the system, and a team willing to become it.
A standing call with someone who has carried what you carry. For the pastor coming out of a build who wants to keep the momentum, or the pastor who just needs a guide in the room once a month.
For: a pastor who doesn't want to figure it out alone anymore.
The same framework as the Build, worked through together, with pastors of churches your size. You get the strategy and you get the room, the part most pastors have never had.
Once a month the cohort meets by video for ninety minutes. Each quarter you get a one-on-one with Pastor Steve. And we open the whole thing with a day together in person in Gainesville, Georgia, because the friendships are half the point.
The Collective is the community behind the name. Pastors of churches under 250 who don't want to figure it out alone. Free to join when it opens, and it will stay free.
What it will be: a place to ask the question you can't ask your board, swap what's actually working, and find out you're not the only one. What it won't be: another feed. We'd rather it be small and real than big and quiet.
Yes. The Intensive and the Build are on-site, because you can't learn a church from a Zoom window. We're based in north Georgia and travel anywhere in the US. Travel is billed at cost, and there's none if you're within driving distance.
The prices are on this page, on purpose. Founding rates for our first five churches: $1,500 for the Intensive, $3,600 for the 90-Day Build, $200 a month for coaching, $900 for the January cohort; the call and the community are free. Travel is at cost and waived within driving distance of Gainesville, GA. After the first five churches, the standard rates beside each one apply. If cost is the only thing in the way, say so on the call. We'd rather find a way than have you go without.
For the call and coaching, just you. For the Intensive and the Build, you and the people who actually carry the church: staff if you have them, board members, key volunteers. The systems get built by the team, or they don't get built.
No. We work with churches across traditions. What we bring is strategy and systems for the local church, not a doctrinal program.
No. We've carried what you carry. The whole approach starts from the belief that the church was built to make disciples and the pastor was never meant to be the system. Naming that is relief, not shame.
The Pilot line (carepilot.church, guestpilot.church) is the same load-sharing thinking turned into tools the church runs on. Some churches use it, some don't. It's never required.
Fifteen minutes with someone who has pastored a church your size. We'll tell you honestly what fits, even if the answer is "not yet."