Sacramental preparation & pastoral care
Don't burn out.
Burn bright.
Every preparation and every visit in one place your whole team can see, instead of scattered across spreadsheets, inboxes and a paper file on somebody's desk.
Not another church management system.
Your current system handles registrations, contributions and records of what already happened. That side is admin driven, and there are good options for it already.
Pastoral Parish does one thing: the sacramental and pastoral life of the parish. Preparation, visits, follow-up. It connects by API to whatever you already run, so nobody is asked to give up their database or key the same name in twice.
How it works
Three things that stop falling through the cracks.
Nothing lives in one person's head
A parish runs fine while the same person does the same job for thirty-five years. When the job changes hands, the small gaps become chasms. Every preparation, every visit and every note is visible to whoever needs it, including the pastor who arrives next year.
The paperwork prints itself
The wedding liturgy comes out with each reading on its own page and the lector's name printed on it. The marriage certificate fills itself in, ready for a signature and the seal. The notification to the place of baptism generates as a PDF and ticks its own follow-up box.
Families do their own part
Send a couple or a family a Pathway link. No account, no password. They enter their own readings, music and details, spelled the way they spell them. Every week they get an email letting them know where they stand in the process.
Pastoral care
Be at peace.
A family arrives from out of town and asks when anybody last saw their mother. You can answer them: this is the date, this is who went, this is what happened.
Mark someone admitted and they move to the top of the dashboard. Log the visit from your phone in the corridor. Every extraordinary minister can record their own rounds, so if one of them is suddenly ill, nobody they were visiting is missed.
Sacramental preparation
Ready before the rehearsal.
Every requirement, document and liturgical choice in one place, with a progress bar for each person in preparation. Green is on track. Red is falling behind.
The canonical questions ask themselves. Is the presider from outside the diocese? Is there a disparity of worship? Is a dispensation still needed? The volunteer covering this week never has to know what to ask.
What it does
Every part of parish life, in one place.
Each part holds what belongs to it and is kept current by whoever does that work, with access set module by module, down to the volunteer who only helps with weddings.
Preparing for the sacraments
Families enter their own information, and every class and step is tracked in one place.
Walking with people
At the hard moments and the joyful ones, nothing is asked twice.
Caring for the parish
The care the parish gives outside the sacramental calendar.
Your people and ministries
One record for every parishioner, and the groups they serve in.
What we don’t limit
Three things we will never charge you for.
Every priest, deacon, secretary, catechist and extraordinary minister. Permissions are set module by module, so the right people see the right things.
Registered or not. A parish cares for plenty of people who never filled out a registration card.
Every ministry, class and committee, however many you run and however they overlap.
From the parishes
What it changes.
It’s a tool that helps us minister to our people in a more effective and efficient way… to make sure that we are bringing Christ to our people.
With several of us on staff touching each wedding, it is a great way for all of us to be on the same page and access the information we need.
We are able to quickly and easily begin the process for sacramental preparation, see how our parishioners are doing, track the progress and follow up with people to complete the process in a timely manner.
You guys need to check this out. It’s going to help your ministry.
This software could not have come at a better time.
Because it makes life easier.
How it started
It started in a rectory, not a boardroom.
Pastoral Parish began as one pastor’s own tool, written in his rectory because nothing on the market helped him be a pastor. Everything since has come from parish life: the features are what priests, secretaries and coordinators asked for after using it week in and week out.
That is why it matches the work so closely. Nobody had to imagine what a parish week looks like.
Pricing
$149 / month
One price for the whole parish. Thirty-day free trial, month to month, and no penalty if you decide it isn’t for you.
- Unlimited users: every priest, staff member and volunteer
- Unlimited parishioner records, registered or not
- Unlimited groups and ministries
- Every sacramental preparation module
- Pathway links for families, with no account and no charge
- API connections to any parish system that allows them
- Month to month, or save 10% when you pay for the year up front
Multi-parish families are capped, not multiplied.
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