Faith / Baptist Church
A Baptist church app that respects congregational autonomy: your church owns the account, the code, and the member roll.
Whether you're an SBC congregation or fully independent, your app should answer to your members and your deacons, not a vendor's roadmap. Rehost builds and runs a custom app in your church's name for $250/mo per campus, month to month. Your staff and committees never log into a dashboard. They message our team and the change ships.
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Baptist churches are governed from the floor, not from a denominational head office. A congregational vote sets the budget, calls the pastor, and approves the building plan, and the deacons, the trustees, and the missions committee each carry their own piece of the work. An app that assumes a top-down org chart misreads how a Baptist church actually decides things. Ours is built around the structure your church already runs: deacon rotations, committee chairs, business-meeting agendas, and the church covenant your members affirmed.
The week is fuller than Sunday morning. There's Sunday school before the service, Wednesday night Bible study and prayer meeting, the women's missions group, the men's breakfast, and the youth on Wednesday nights. The sermon archive matters because Baptists preach long expository series, and members want to catch the week they missed and share the whole study with someone considering the church. Missions giving matters because the church likely supports the Cooperative Program, the Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong offerings, or named independent missionaries on the field, and members want to see where the money goes.
Most of all, a Baptist church is a covenant community of baptized believers, not a list of contacts in a vendor's database. The member roll, the giving records, and the prayer requests belong to the church. With Rehost, they live in accounts your church holds. If you ever leave us, you walk out with the App Store account, the domain, the repo, and every record intact. No vendor can switch off your congregation's app over a billing dispute.
What a Baptist church app actually needs.
A real sermon archive, not a recent-only feed
Baptists preach in long expository series, so the archive matters. We organize sermons by series, book of the Bible, and preacher, with offline download, resume-where-you-left-off, and a share link a member can text to a friend who's checking out the church.
Sunday school and small-group Bible study
Class rosters, quarterly curriculum, attendance follow-up for absent members, and a group chat that the teacher runs. Adult classes, the men's and women's groups, and the youth each get their own space without anyone moderating a public social feed at midnight.
Deacon, trustee, and committee structure built in
Your governing structure is real, so the app reflects it: deacon-of-the-week rotations and care assignments, committee chairs with their own member lists, and a quiet channel for the business-meeting agenda and minutes. Members see the ministries; leaders see the workings.
Missions giving with named funds
Two-tap giving to the general fund, the building fund, the Cooperative Program, and the Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong offerings, or to the independent missionaries your church supports by name. Funds route through your processor to your church's bank. Rehost never touches the money.
VBS, revival, and homecoming registration
Vacation Bible School child registration with allergy and pickup details, plus event flows for revival week, homecoming, the fall festival, and the church-wide work day. Volunteer signups and headcounts roll up so the committee chair isn't chasing a paper clipboard.
A church directory your members actually own
A searchable photo directory, prayer list, and care-needs board, kept inside accounts the church holds. New-member and baptism follow-up flows the deacons can work, with no member data sold, repackaged, or held hostage by a platform.
$250/mo per campus. Built and run for you.
A custom baptist church app, in your branding, on an App Store account in your name, with the code in your repo. Multi-campus stays linear: three campuses is $750/mo, five is $1,250/mo, no separate tier. Your staff never logs into a dashboard.
What Baptist church leaders ask first.
Our church is independent and governed by the congregation. Does the app keep that autonomy?
Yes, structurally. The App Store account is in your church's name, the domain is on your registrar, and the code and member roll live in accounts your church holds. No denominational office and no vendor controls it. A congregational vote can change anything about your church's app because the church owns it, not us. We operate it at your direction.
Can it handle Cooperative Program and the Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong offerings as separate funds?
Yes. We set up named giving funds for the general budget, building fund, Cooperative Program, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, and any independent missionaries you support by name. Members give to a specific fund in two taps. Gifts route through your processor to the church's bank account; we integrate the rails and never sit in the money flow.
We have Sunday school plus Wednesday Bible study and prayer meeting. Can the app run both?
Yes. Sunday school classes get rosters, quarterly curriculum, and absent-member follow-up. Wednesday gets its own midweek schedule, prayer-meeting requests, and youth check-in. Each class or group has a teacher or leader who runs it, so it stays a discipling space, not a public feed.
Does our staff have to learn a content management system to keep it updated?
No, and that's the point. Your church secretary, your pastor, and your committee chairs don't log into a dashboard. They message our team in plain English, with the bulletin, the sermon file, or the event details, and we make the change and ship it. The deacons and the staff stay in ministry, not in a CMS.
What happens to our sermon archive and member records if we ever leave Rehost?
You keep all of it. The sermon library, the church directory, the giving history, and the prayer records export to you, and the App Store account, domain, and repo are already in your church's name. Leaving Rehost means another team can pick the app up and keep running it. Your congregation never loses access, and nothing gets switched off.