Sunday announcements, draft
Four items, in your voice, 140 words. Baptism sign-ups lead.
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For churches with no office staff, and churches with too much of it
A staff for the church that can't hire.
Named staff seats draft the work you assign them, and your team approves each draft. They learn your church from its own material, like your sermons and bulletins, and have the week's drafts waiting every Monday.
Fifteen questions, and it's free. It tells you which seats you're already paying for.
Doors open 1.1.27 That's the day the first three seats are yours to download.
The staff
Three seats on day one. Thirteen chairs open.
Three seats are filled on day one. Each one learns your church from your sermons, your site, and your bulletins, and nothing else, and brings the work back finished every Monday.
1
Communications
Sunday announcements, four items, in your voice, on your desk Thursday.
Will never write a sermon, or post without your approval.
2
Follow-up & Connections
A note to every first-time guest by Monday, naming what they wrote on the card.
Will never answer a pastoral need itself. Those go to a person.
3
Volunteer Coordinator
Next month's schedule, Tuesday reminders, and the open slots, before Saturday night.
Will never schedule anyone without your approval.
Thirteen more chairs, from Finance to Front Door. The Chief of Staff comes with the base; every other seat is $99 a month.
Meet the staff, seat by seatMonday, 6:40am
Your queue fills at 3am. You approve it over coffee.
Every piece shows where it came from: the sermon, the connect card, the calendar. You read it, you tap approve, and only then does anything go anywhere.
Ruth finished 3 pieces of work6 days to Sunday
First-time guest follow-up, 4 notes
Each one names what they wrote on the card. None sent yet.
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Volunteer asks for next Sunday
Two open slots on kids check-in. Drafted to the six people who served last month.
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Nothing sends without you.0 sent
How the two fit
The staff, and the wall they report to.
Start with the staff. The Watchman is the screen on the office wall that shows what they produced this week.
Ruth · Monday3 ready
drawn from: Aug 24 sermonSunday announcements
from: connect cards4 guest follow-ups
from: Planning CenterVolunteer asks, the 14th
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The staff
The work isn't getting done, because nobody was hired to do it.
An assistant you name, plus the roles you need, working every week. Finished drafts every Monday (announcements, guest follow-up, volunteer asks), each showing the source it came from. You approve; it never sends.
LIVELIVE
This
Weekend
SEP 6
FROM WED BRIEF
Standalone message this Sunday. Guest in the room, merch table back after both services.
RUN OF SHOW
PREACHING—
WORSHIP3 SONGS: KING OF GLORY, HOLY GROUND, ALL MY DAYS
WHAT’S HAPPENING
SERVEKIDS TEAM 2 SHORT
GUESTS14 CARDS, NONE ASSIGNED
TODAYOPSINBOXNUMBERSMORE
Then, on the wall
The Watchman
The wall your staff reports to. Very hard to unplug.
A small always-on device with one round screen, wired to the systems you already use. Giving, attendance, streams, volunteers, and alerts live on one wall, with a morning brief only when something needs a decision. Hands-on install, a handful of churches a year.
The covenant
We run your church office. We never touch the pulpit or pastoral care.
Never the pulpit.No sermon writing. Your sermons are used only so the voice sounds like you.
Never pastoral care.Counseling and care are human work. A crisis routes to a person, never a draft.
Minors refused at the door.Children's data is rejected at ingestion, not redacted and kept.
Individual giving never shown.Only totals. Ever.
These are enforced in code with a blocking test suite, not written on a policy page.
What it costs
The hire you can't afford is $45,000 a year.
This starts at $299 a month.
Priced per seat, never per size. $299 a month for your named Chief of Staff and the workspace; each role you seat is $99/mo: seats at the table, not feature unlocks. Setup included.
Baseyour Chief of Staff and the workspace, every church$299/mo
Each agentany of the sixteen seats · add or swap any time$99/mo
Full tableevery role, all seventeen seats$1,883/mo
Founding churchesevery agent locked for 36 months · cohort opens January 2027$79/agent
The Watchmanhands-on install + ongoing care · limited installsPer install
Six months to start, then month to month with thirty days' notice. No exit fee. Export everything, any time.
Book a working session · 45 minutes with Lonnell D. Williams · $250 once.
The whole table, priced as hires
$717,000/yr
Seventeen real hires at conservative church salaries, before taxes and benefits push it past $890K
$1,883/mo
The full table: every role, all seventeen seats, setup included
The entire staff costs less than one part-time admin.
What each seat costs as a real hire
Chief of Staff$50,000
Communications Director$42,000
Follow-up & Connections$36,000
Front Door / Reception$34,000
Volunteer Coordinator$36,000
Ops / HR Admin$40,000
Project Manager$48,000
Finance / Reporting$44,000
Youth Curriculum$40,000
Kids Ministry Curriculum$38,000
Translation ES/EN$40,000
Creative$45,000
Strategy$60,000
Development / Generosity$48,000
Worship & Production Admin$40,000
Groups & Discipleship$38,000
Social & Content$38,000
Honest math: each role does the drafting and admin side of that job. Your people still lead. No church was ever going to hire seventeen people. That's the point.
Save the date
Doors open 1.1.27.
That's the day the first three seats are yours to download, and the founding cohort begins: setup included, every seat locked at $79 a month for 36 months.
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