Collie
by FlockConnect
Collie is your AI sheepdog.
She's not the shepherd — that's you.
Draft church emails, Sunday bulletins, board packs, sermon repurposing, volunteer coordination, and pastoral follow-up without giving up human approval.
Reviewed by FlockConnect · Updated June 2, 2026
Collie product previews
See what pastors see after signup
Collie should be discoverable, but it should also be inspectable. These product views show the dashboard, chat, and Pending approval patterns users can expect.
Dashboard quick actions
The weekly command center pastors see after signup
Dashboard quick actions put chat, Pending approvals, voice memos, visits, Planning Center-aware follow-up, and setup prompts in one church workspace.
Chat prompt examples
A ministry chat surface with bounded starter prompts
Collie shows pastors practical starting points for visitor follow-up, sermon repurposing, volunteer coordination, weekly planning, and board prep.
Pending approvals queue
Every external action stops for human review
Pending approvals make the product boundary visible: staff can approve, edit, or discard emails, board briefs, sermon repurposing outputs, and other drafted actions.
Direct answer
What is Collie?
Collie is an AI assistant for pastors and church staff. It helps ministry teams draft church emails, Sunday bulletins, board packs, visitor follow-up, volunteer coordination, Planning Center-aware preparation, and sermon repurposing from existing recordings. Collie does not replace pastoral judgment: it refuses sermon generation, counseling or confessional content, AI summaries about specific children, writable financial actions, and automatic external sends. The product boundary is human approval. Emails, calendar invites, social posts, and integration actions wait in Pending until a pastor or staff member reviews them. Collie is published by FlockConnect LLC for churches that want practical AI help without handing preaching, care, children, finance, or external communication to an autonomous system.
Answers for pastors and church staff
The short version for church boards, pastors, and administrators comparing AI tools for ministry work.
What is Collie?
Collie is an AI assistant for pastors and church staff. It helps ministry teams draft, prepare, and organize church work while the pastor stays the shepherd.
What does Collie do for pastors?
Collie drafts church emails, Sunday bulletins, board packs, sermon repurposing, volunteer coordination, pastoral follow-up, reading lists, and ministry prep from one church workspace.
Is Collie safe for church data?
Collie is built for church data privacy with Clerk Organizations, Supabase Row-Level Security, audit logs, counseling-content refusal, minors guardrails, and human approval before anything leaves the platform.
Is it okay for pastors to use AI?
It can be okay when AI supports administrative preparation, keeps pastoral judgment with people, protects sensitive data, and refuses what churches should never automate with AI.
What should be in a church AI policy?
A church AI policy should define approved workflows, prohibited content, source-approved context, human reviewers, external-action approval, staff training, and board review.
What will Collie refuse to do?
Collie refuses sermon generation, counseling or confessional content, crisis processing, AI summaries about specific minors, writable financial actions, and automatic external sends.
Who is Collie for?
Collie is for senior pastors, executive pastors, church administrators, ministry directors, and church staff who need help with communications, follow-up, Planning Center people lookup, and weekly ministry preparation.
AI by church context
A small church, a church plant, a rural church, a multisite church, and a growing church all need different starting points. Collie keeps the same boundaries while adapting the first workflow to the ministry context.
AI for small churches
AI for Small Churches | Collie
Collie gives small churches and lean ministry teams a small church pastor assistant for visitor follow-up, weekly communications, volunteer coordination, and Planning Center-aware workflows with human approval.
AI for church plants
AI for Church Plants | Collie
Collie helps church plants draft guest follow-up, launch-team communication, volunteer asks, weekly updates, and church plant AI assistant workflows that keep every external action human-approved.
AI for multisite churches
AI for Multisite Churches | Collie
Collie gives multisite churches a multisite church AI assistant for campus follow-up, staff drafts, Planning Center-aware workflows, and approval queues that preserve local pastoral ownership.
AI for rural churches
AI for Rural Churches | Collie
Collie helps rural churches and bivocational pastors draft follow-up, communications, volunteer coordination, and weekly prep without forcing big-church automation onto a small team.
AI for growing churches
AI for Growing Churches | Collie
Collie helps growing churches scale visitor follow-up, volunteer coordination, church communications, staff prep, and approval-gated ministry workflows before operations outgrow the team.
AI for Baptist churches
AI for Baptist Churches | Collie
Collie helps Baptist churches draft visitor follow-up, announcements, board prep, sermon repurposing from existing messages, and Planning Center-aware workflows using church-approved theological context and human approval.
AI for Methodist churches
AI for Methodist Churches | Collie
Collie helps Methodist churches prepare communications, visitor follow-up, volunteer coordination, board prep, and church-approved theological context workflows while leaders approve every external action.
AI for Presbyterian churches
AI for Presbyterian Churches | Collie
Collie helps Presbyterian churches prepare session notes, visitor follow-up, communications, volunteer coordination, and church-approved theological context drafts with visible guardrails and human approval.
AI for nondenominational churches
AI for Nondenominational Churches | Collie
Collie helps nondenominational churches draft visitor follow-up, communications, volunteer asks, board prep, and Planning Center-aware workflows using church-approved theological context and human approval.
Catholic parish AI assistant
Catholic Parish AI Assistant | Collie
Collie helps Catholic parish staff prepare announcements, visitor follow-up, volunteer coordination, parish office drafts, and Planning Center-aware workflows while clergy and staff keep church-approved theological context and approval.
Search by the workflow blocking the week
Collie has public workflow pages for church bulletin AI, church newsletter AI, volunteer coordination AI, church board packet AI, sermon repurposing AI, pastor weekly planner AI, event planning, and pastoral care tracking.
church bulletin AI
Church Bulletin AI | Collie
church newsletter AI
Church Newsletter AI | Collie
church volunteer coordination AI
Church Volunteer Coordination AI | Collie
church board packet AI
Church Board Meeting AI | Collie
sermon repurposing AI
Sermon Repurposing AI | Collie
pastor weekly planner AI
Pastor Weekly Planner AI | Collie
church event planning AI
Church Event Planning AI | Collie
pastoral care tracking AI
Pastoral Care Tracking AI | Collie
The work a pastor doesn't have time for
Twelve skills shaped by real ministry workflows. Collie drafts, preps, and queues. Nothing leaves your desk without you saying yes.
Pastoral Care
- LivePlan Your Week Ahead. Monday 6am brief — what's on your week, who needs follow-up, what to pray about.
- LiveCounseling Appointment Prep. Factual context only — past visit dates, recent attendance, prayer requests on file. Never assessments.
- LiveNew Visitor Follow-up. Sunday 9pm scan of new PCO visitors → personalized follow-ups in your queue Monday morning.
- LivePastoral Care Tracking Light. Logs visits, hospital, funerals, weddings. Read-only writeup of facts. Searchable later.
- LiveChurch Search. "Find that email from John about the building project." Natural language search across connected tools.
Sermon Prep
- LiveSermon Repurposing. Audio in → social posts, devotional emails, small-group questions. Transformation only — never new sermon content.
- LiveReading List Manager. "What have I read on Romans 8?" Read-only over your library + past sermons.
Communications
- LiveWeekly Bulletin. Drafts based on the Planning Center service plan — hymns, scripture, announcements. Tuesday-by review.
- LiveWeekly Comms Cadence. Newsletter draft (Mailchimp), social posts, push notifications. All draft state.
Admin
- LiveBoard Meeting Prep. Pulls month's giving, attendance trends, ministry highlights. Long-running plan-then-execute.
- LiveVolunteer Coordination. Reads PCO Services, identifies gaps, drafts personalized asks ("Hey Sarah, would you greet the 25th?").
- LiveEvent Coordination. Multi-step skill: from event brief, generates volunteer needs, comms schedule, registration, room booking.
What Collie will never do
Technology should serve the shepherd, never replace the shepherd. These guardrails are enforced in code — not policy. They cannot be turned off by an admin or unlocked by a paid tier.
Never write a sermon
Transformation only — your audio becomes social posts, devotional emails, and small-group questions. Never new theology attributed to you.
Never process counseling content
Confessional, counseling, and crisis content is refused at the input layer. The AI never sees it.
Never auto-send
Every email, calendar invite, and post queues for your approval. There is no "let Collie handle it" mode.
Never derive about specific children
Adults enter rosters. Collie doesn't summarize, classify, or generate from minors' personal data.
Read the full Trust Center → Create a church AI usage policy → Review Collie with your church board →
Plans
14 days free. No card to start. Cancel anytime from your billing portal — we'll never make you call to do it.
Pastor
1 senior pastor, core drafting skills, Planning Center people lookup, voice memos.
2M tokens / month
Start free trialOffice
Up to 3 admin staff, coordination skills, Planning Center, approval queue.
5M tokens / month
Start free trialFull Stack
Up to 8 staff, all 12 skills, current integrations, advanced workflows.
10M tokens / month
Start free trialMulti-site add-on +$500/mo per campus · Install service add-on $2,500–$7,500 one-time
Where Collie came from
Michael Tribett started FlockConnect after a close friend in his small group pulled him aside one day and said he was leaving the church. He'd been a member for almost two years and only really knew about three people.
The pastors had no idea. The friend looked perfectly fine on paper — showing up Sunday, in a small group, even serving. The relational data the church needed wasn't anywhere a ChMS could see it.
That moment shaped a conviction Michael keeps coming back to: technology should serve the shepherd, never replace the shepherd. FlockConnect tracks the relational layer your ChMS can't see — who knows whom, who's drifting, who's quietly about to leave.
Collie is its sheepdog. An AI assistant that takes the rest of the work off a pastor's plate — drafts, prep, follow-ups, the Sunday bulletin, the volunteer asks — so the pastor stays where they're needed most.