Open-source church check-in
A kids check-in kiosk for your church. Parents check children in on a tablet and get a pickup code; your children's ministry team sees who is in the room right now.
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church-checkinv1.6.0New: your church website in 12 languages
Your church website andchurch management, in one place you own.
Church4Christ brings a church website in up to twelve languages together with people, groups, volunteer scheduling, children’s check-in, giving, and more. It runs on your own Cloudflare account, and the code is open source.
No account to create. Explore the demo as a visitor, member, or administrator with fictional data.
- Open source
- Runs on Cloudflare’s edge
- Version 1.6.0
- 12 languages
- 22 switchable modules
Product tour
From the front door to the back office.
Real screens from the current release, shown with the project’s fictional demo church.
A multilingual public site whose menus group every enabled module into Welcome, Explore, Connect, and Get Involved.
This week’s bulletin and sermon prep, with next steps across your modules.
A month of serving at a glance, with confirmations by email.
Weekly check-ins, a 4-week average, and a 12-week chart.
A signed-in home with serving, household, groups, and prayer.
What’s inside
Everything a growing church needs, as modules you switch on.
Start with a website, add community tools when you are ready, and turn anything off without deleting a thing.
Website & content
Sermons, bulletins, events, articles, and a drag-and-drop page builder in three themes.
ExplorePeople & groups
Households, membership status, private pastoral notes, small groups, and newcomer follow-up.
ExploreVolunteer scheduling
A monthly matrix, confirm or decline from email, blockouts, reminders, and calendar feeds.
ExploreChildren's check-in
A tablet kiosk with pickup codes, a live roster, and attendance charts.
ExploreGivingSupabase
Stripe-hosted giving, a ledger for checks and cash, and annual statements.
ExploreService planningNew
Run sheets with a live clock, rehearsals, availability, and find-a-time.
ExploreMember portal
One signed-in home for groups, serving, household, giving, and prayer.
ExploreAlso included
- Prayer wall
- Newcomer follow-up
- Service attendance
- Activity scores
- Spiritual gifts quiz
- Testimonies
- Learning with Google Classroom
- Multi-campus
- Community workflows
- Registration
Built multilingual
Twelve languages. Your church picks.
Many churches worship in more than one language. Church4Christ ships with twelve interface languages; you turn on the ones your congregation uses and choose a default.
- English
- 中文
- Español
- Português (Brasil)
- Français
- Deutsch
- 日本語
- 한국어
- Bahasa Melayu
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Tiếng Việt
- हिन्दी
- Visitors switch languages and stay on the same page.
- Missing translations fall back to your default language, then English.
- One-click Simplified-to-Traditional for Chinese readers.
- Emails go out in each person’s language when it is turned on.
- The ten newer translations are AI-assisted; native-speaker corrections are welcome.
On every phone
Works in the browser already in everyone’s pocket.
Version 1.5 reworked check-in and volunteer scheduling for 375px screens: cards instead of wide tables, thumb-sized buttons, and the right phone keyboard at the kiosk.
Check-in
Scheduling
Run sheet
My calendar
There is no native app to download. It is the same website, sized for phones.
How it works
From first look to Sunday morning.
Try the live demo
Click around a fully stocked demo church as a visitor, a member, or an administrator. Nothing to install.
Try the live demoInstall it your way
Clone the repository and run one command to open a local setup form for your name, colors, logo, and first features. Or ask your AI coding assistant to follow the setup guide.
$ git clone https://github.com/leveo/church4christ.git$ cd church4christ && npm ci$ npm run onboard
Turn modules on as you grow
Begin with Website + Community on Cloudflare D1. Add the member portal, giving, or service planning later in Settings → Modules.
Read the setup guide
Or paste this into your AI coding assistant
“Read AGENTS.md and docs/setup.md. Start the browser onboarding so I can choose our organization’s branding and first features. Use my saved preferences to set up a local preview, verify the site and administrator pages, then report the URL and remaining checks.”Modules
22 modules. Use only what you need.
Switch a module off and its pages, links, and emails disappear together. Nothing is deleted, and you can switch it back at any time.
Content5
- Bulletins
Build and publish weekly service bulletins.
- Sermons
Publish a searchable sermon archive.
- Prayer Sheets
Prepare and publish prayer sheets.
- Articles
Publish bilingual articles.
- Page Builder
Build custom bilingual pages with blocks.
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- Prayer Wall
Receive and care for prayer requests.
- Events
Publish events and announcements.
- Fellowships
Publish the fellowship directory.
- Groups
Manage group membership, events, registration, and attendance.
- People & Households
Manage people, households, and pastoral notes.
- Children Check-in
Run secure child check-in and attendance.
- Service Attendance
Record aggregate adult service attendance and report child check-ins.
- Newcomer Follow-up
Receive newcomer cards and coordinate personal follow-up.
- Activity Score
Monitor explainable member activity and church-wide engagement.
- Member Portal
Give members household, group, calendar, prayer, and opportunity discovery tools.
- GivingNeeds Supabase
Record gifts and optionally accept Stripe payments.
- RegistrationNeeds Supabase
Run free or paid event registration.
- Learning
Continue ministry courses beyond classroom time.
Volunteering4
- Volunteer Scheduling
Coordinate ministries, teams, plans, and reminders.
- Spiritual Gifts
Help people discover gifts and serving matches.
- Testimonies
Collect and publish serving testimonies.
- Service PlanningNew
Plan run sheets, rehearsals, availability, and calendars for services and events.
Giving and Registration need the Supabase (PostgreSQL) backend. Everything else runs on the default Cloudflare D1 database.
Just need one part?
Start with a single-feature edition.
Each edition installs the same codebase with one area turned on. There is no separate code to maintain, and you can turn on more later.
Open-source church volunteer scheduling
Schedule worship, kids, hospitality, and tech teams. Volunteers confirm or decline from an email link, block out dates, and subscribe to their serving calendar.
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church-volunteer-schedulingOpen-source small group management for churches
A home for your church's small groups: a public directory, join requests, recurring meetings, and attendance taken from an emailed checklist.
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church-small-groupsOpen-source church website CMS
A multilingual church website your staff can update without a developer: sermons, events, bulletins, articles, prayer requests, and a block page builder.
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church-website-cmsHonest cost
The software is free. Here is what hosting may cost.
Church4Christ is not a subscription. You pay your providers directly for what you use, and many small churches start inside Cloudflare’s free allowances.
Local evaluation
$0
Website or community modules on your own computer with local D1
No hosted-service charge for local D1 evaluation. You provide the computer and the time.
D1 website & community
Often $0 to start
A Cloudflare Worker, D1, and R2 for up to 20 D1-compatible modules
A modest deployment can fit within Cloudflare free allowances. Traffic, storage, and operations beyond the allowances, a domain, and other services can cost money.
Production email
From $5 / month
Sign-in links, reminders, requests, and digests to any recipient
Sending to arbitrary recipients requires Workers Paid, currently a minimum of $5/month including 3,000 emails, then $0.35 per 1,000 emails.
Supabase & full modules
Cloudflare + Supabase plan
Cloudflare plus Supabase/PostgreSQL for the Full Church modules, including Giving and Registration
The selected Supabase plan may add charges. Supabase Free has no automatic daily backups and low-activity Free projects may be paused, so take regular off-site dumps or choose a plan whose backups fit your needs.
These are planning profiles, not price guarantees. Prices are as of August 2026 and can change; confirm them on the linked official pricing pages before you deploy.
Planning Center alternative
Looking for an open-source Planning Center alternative?
Church4Christ covers much of the everyday church-management ground in one self-hosted application, and an optional read-only sync lets both systems run side by side while you transition.
| Common need | In Church4Christ |
|---|---|
| People and households directory | People & households with CSV import, saved source-column mappings, and export |
| Small groups | Groups with a public directory, join requests, events, and attendance |
| Volunteer scheduling | A monthly matrix with email confirmation, no login needed |
| Service planning | Run sheets, rehearsals, availability, and calendars for services and events |
| Children's check-in | Kiosk check-in with pickup codes and attendance charts |
| Attendance and engagement | Service attendance and explainable activity scores |
| Newcomer and care follow-up | Newcomer queue, prayer wall, and community workflows |
| Church website and CMS | Public site, themes, sermons, bulletins, and page builder |
| Member self-service | Member portal for household, groups, and prayer, on D1 or Supabase |
| Online giving | Stripe giving with an offline ledger and annual statements (Supabase backend) |
| Multiple campuses | Multi-campus with campus-isolated data and roles |
What it does not replace yet
- No native mobile app. Pages work in a phone browser, including check-in and scheduling at 375px wide.
- No SMS messaging. Notifications go out by email.
- No worship song library or song planning. Service Planning covers run sheets and rehearsals.
- Planning Center synchronization is read-only and covers People only.
- It is a foundation your team runs and maintains, not a hosted service with vendor support.
Planning Center and other product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Church4Christ is an independent project and is not affiliated with them.
Read the full comparisonQuestions churches ask
Is Church4Christ really free?
The software is free and open source. Hosting, email, database, and domain services may cost money depending on your setup and usage; some small deployments fit within provider free allowances.
Can someone take the code and sell it?
Church4Christ is open source so that it helps the churches that need it. Its GPL-3.0 license requires anyone who distributes a modified version to share that source under the same license, so it cannot become a closed product sold for profit. Charging a church fair fees for setup, customization, hosting, or support is welcome. The license text decides the details.
Is there a hosted version I can sign up for?
No. Church4Christ is source code your church hosts on its own Cloudflare account. There is no Church4Christ account to create; the live demo is there so you can try it first.
Who is it for?
Small and mid-size churches, fellowships, and nonprofits, especially multilingual and immigrant congregations, with a technically comfortable staff member, volunteer, or partner to deploy and maintain it.
Can a small church without a developer run it?
It works best when someone technically comfortable owns deployment and updates. The browser onboarding and AI-assistant guides lower that effort, but someone still has to review changes, back up data, and deploy.
Which languages does it support?
Twelve interface languages: English, Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Hindi. Each church turns on the ones it needs and picks a default; Chinese readers also get one-click Simplified-to-Traditional. Your own content (sermons, events, pages) is written by your team in each language.
Can we move over from Planning Center gradually?
An optional, read-only Planning Center People sync links person records and sends ambiguous matches to human review, so both systems can run side by side. People are brought across with the CSV importer.
Which database should we choose?
Start with Cloudflare D1 unless you need Giving or Registration, which require Supabase/PostgreSQL. There is no automated D1-to-Supabase migration yet, so decide before entering real content.
What is it built with?
Astro on Cloudflare Workers, with Cloudflare D1 or Supabase/PostgreSQL for data and Cloudflare R2 for media. Public pages ship no client-side framework.
See it with your own eyes.
Open the demo church in your browser, then read the setup guide when you are ready.