# Church4Christ

> Church4Christ is free, open-source church management software (ChMS) and a church CMS with a church website in 12 interface languages (English, Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Hindi). It is self-hosted on the church's own Cloudflare account (Workers, D1, R2), with optional Supabase/PostgreSQL for Giving and Registration. License: GPL-3.0. Current release: 1.6.0 (November 2026). There is no hosted service or sign-up; the church (or an implementation partner) installs and maintains it.

Who it is for: small and mid-size churches, fellowships, and nonprofits, especially multilingual and immigrant congregations, with a technically comfortable person or partner to deploy and maintain it.

Implemented capabilities: a public church website with three themes (light and dark), sermons, bulletins, events, articles, testimonies, and a drag-and-drop page builder; people and households with CSV import and export; groups and fellowships; volunteer scheduling with email confirmation; Service Planning (run sheets, rehearsals, availability, find-a-time); a children's check-in kiosk with pickup codes; service attendance; newcomer follow-up; a prayer wall; community workflows; multi-campus; activity scores; Learning connected to Google Classroom or a Church4Christ Canvas derivative; a member portal (D1 or Supabase); Giving with Stripe (cards, wallets, ACH), an offline ledger, and annual giving statements, and event Registration (both Supabase only); optional read-only Planning Center People synchronization. 22 modules can be switched on and off.

Not included: native mobile apps (pages work in phone browsers), SMS messaging, label printing for check-in, and worship song planning. Stripe starts in test mode; live mode is an explicit opt-in after a go-live checklist.

Cost: the software is free. Hosting may cost money: a modest D1 deployment can fit within Cloudflare free allowances; production email to arbitrary recipients requires Cloudflare Workers Paid (currently from $5/month including 3,000 emails, then $0.35 per 1,000, as of August 2026 and subject to change); Supabase plans may add charges.

## Site

- [Home](https://church4christ.org/): overview, modules, cost, Planning Center comparison, FAQ
- [Website & content](https://church4christ.org/features/website/)
- [People & groups](https://church4christ.org/features/people-and-groups/)
- [Volunteer scheduling](https://church4christ.org/features/volunteers/)
- [Children's check-in](https://church4christ.org/features/check-in/)
- [Giving](https://church4christ.org/features/giving/)
- [Service planning](https://church4christ.org/features/service-planning/)
- [Member portal](https://church4christ.org/features/member-portal/)
- [Cost](https://church4christ.org/pricing/)
- [Planning Center alternative](https://church4christ.org/planning-center-alternative/)
- Every page is also published in Simplified Chinese (/zh/), Spanish (/es/), Brazilian Portuguese (/pt/), French (/fr/), German (/de/), Japanese (/ja/), Korean (/ko/), Malay (/ms/), Indonesian (/id/), Vietnamese (/vi/), and Hindi (/hi/), for example https://church4christ.org/es/. English is authoritative; the other ten languages beyond Chinese are AI-assisted translations.

## Try and install

- [Live demo](https://demo.church4christ.org/en/sandbox): explore as a visitor, member, or administrator with fictional data
- [Source code](https://github.com/leveo/church4christ)
- [Setup guide for people and AI agents](https://github.com/leveo/church4christ/blob/main/docs/setup.md)
- [README](https://github.com/leveo/church4christ/blob/main/README.md): features, comparison, costs, quick start
- [Changelog](https://github.com/leveo/church4christ/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)

## Optional

- [Single-feature editions](https://github.com/leveo/church4christ/blob/main/docs/editions.md): church-checkin, church-volunteer-scheduling, church-small-groups, church-website-cms
- [Supabase and Stripe setup](https://github.com/leveo/church4christ/blob/main/docs/supabase-setup.md)
- [Why this stack](https://github.com/leveo/church4christ/blob/main/docs/why-this-stack.md)