[{"guid":"c712cf25-2a08-4df4-bb99-e1aceac7afb3","title":"Database Day One — Build Your Church Directory in a Single Sunday","description":"Most churches have software but an empty or messy database — and nobody wants to type everyone in by hand. So flip it: let your people register themselves. Micheal and Kari walk through \"Database Day One\" — building (or cleaning up) your whole church directory in a single Sunday.\n\nPost one QR code in your building (Mobile → B1 CheckIn → Share Registration QR Code) and your congregation adds themselves and their households in about 30 seconds — no app download, accurate data straight from the source. There's also a copyable link you can text to anyone thinking about visiting.\n\nThen a Workflow (Serving → Workflows) does the follow-up automatically: trigger on \"Person Created\" + \"Membership Status is Visitor,\" flip on \"only once per person,\" and add a Send Email action pointing to a reusable welcome Email Template. Every new visitor also lands as a card on the Workflow board your team works through — call, hello, connect. Set it up once; it runs every Sunday after that.\n\nPlus: b1.church has a fresh new look — all six free tools in one place, with a live demo.\n\nTry It This Week: Before you launch anything, learn Workflows — watch the 2-minute video in the Database Day One guide.\n\nLinks:\n- Database Day One guide (full steps + free Canva slide templates): pages.churchapps.org/database-day-one-guide\n- B1: b1.church\n- support.churchapps.org\n- github.com/ChurchApps","audio_key":"audio/2026-06-15T12:00:00-2026-06-15-episode-14.mp3","duration":"00:08:13","file_size":3951349,"pub_date":"2026-06-15T12:00:00","season":1,"episode_num":14},{"guid":"bc3d81f2-635b-49c7-b43a-12905788a925","title":"Your Church App Is Already Here","description":"Every church on ChurchApps already has a fully branded, installable app — most just don't know it yet.\n\nYOUR CHURCH APP IS ALREADY HERE — PWA\n\nEvery church on ChurchApps already has a Progressive Web App (PWA) — a fully branded, installable app that works like a native app on any phone.\n\nWhat is a PWA?\n- An app that lives on the web but installs on your phone like a regular app\n- Full screen, no browser bar, push notifications — looks and feels completely native\n- Fully branded: your church name, your colors, your logo — nothing that says \"B1\" or \"ChurchApps\"\n\nWhy PWA instead of a traditional app?\n- Instant updates — no waiting for Apple or Google app store approval (live in minutes, not weeks)\n- One codebase works on every device: iPhone, Android, desktop\n- No app store fees or gatekeeping\n- Shareable with just a link — no \"go find us in the app store\"\n\nHow to install — every church already has an install page:\n- Go to your church's website URL + /mobile/install\n  Example: southsideonline.com/mobile/install\n- Already have a custom domain set up? Just use that domain + /mobile/install\n- Don't know your URL? Go to B1 Admin → Website → click the eye icon next to any published page. The URL that opens in your browser is your church's URL. Just replace the page path with /mobile/install\n  Example: if it shows https://churchapps.b1.church/donate → go to https://churchapps.b1.church/mobile/install\n- Android: browser usually shows an automatic \"Add to Home Screen\" prompt — tap it\n- iPhone: tap the Share icon in Safari → scroll down → \"Add to Home Screen\"\n- Takes about 30 seconds\n\nStill want the app store? That works too:\n- Search \"B1\" in the App Store or Google Play\n- Download the B1 app, search for your church, tap on it\n\nPRINT DIRECTORY\n- New print icon in the top-right of the People list in B1 Admin\n- Opens a formatted directory in a new tab and triggers print automatically\n- Grouped by household, includes photos, addresses, birthdays, anniversaries\n- Active members only — Visitors and Inactive filtered out automatically\n- One click\n\nBEHIND THE SCENES\n- People list pagination: large contact lists now load faster\n- MCP server now available — if you know what that means, link is in the show notes\n\nTry It This Week:\n- Find your church URL: B1 Admin → Website → click the eye icon next to any published page\n- Add /mobile/install to the end of that URL and open it on your phone\n- Then send that link to your whole team\n\nResources:\n- PWA install guide: support.churchapps.org/docs/b1-church/mobile/install\n- Print directory walkthrough: support.churchapps.org/docs/b1-admin/people\n- MCP server (for developers): support.churchapps.org/docs/b1-admin/integrations/claude\n- support.churchapps.org\n- github.com/ChurchApps","audio_key":"audio/2026-06-01-2026-06-01-episode-13.mp3","duration":"00:06:13","file_size":2985397,"pub_date":"2026-06-01","season":1,"episode_num":13},{"guid":"21fe5df3-f575-43fe-b000-152ce5424387","title":"Your Church Software Just Got a Lot Smarter","description":"Two big updates in this episode — and the second one is the one your admin team has been waiting for.\n\nINTEGRATIONS — ChurchApps Now Connects to Your Other Tools\n• New Developer section in B1 Admin → Settings\n• Slack & Discord webhooks (~2 min setup): real-time notifications for new guests, new people, group joins, form submissions, attendance, and calendar events\n  – Multiple webhooks supported — route different events to different channels\n• Zapier integration: connects B1 to 7,000+ apps\n  – B1 Triggers: New Person, Updated Person, New Donation, New Group Member, New Form Submission\n  – B1 Actions: Create Person, Add Donation, Add Group Member, Find Person\n  – Example: new visitor form submission → auto-add to Mailchimp welcome sequence\n• Google Sheets: on-demand data export for people, donations, groups, and attendance\n• Pre-built connectors for: Mailchimp, Donorbox, Subsplash, Clearstream, Text In Church, Mobile Message, Checkr\n• API Keys: generated in B1 Admin, scoped and revocable — full control over what each connection can access\n• Connected Apps tab: see everything with access to your data in one place\n• Cost: ChurchApps integrations are free; Slack/Discord/Google Sheets are free; Zapier has a free tier\n\nBULK PEOPLE MANAGEMENT — Update Many Records at Once\n• Select multiple people in the People list and apply the same change to all at once\n• Bulk update: Membership Status (Visitor, Regular Attendee, Member, Staff, Inactive)\n• Bulk update: Marital Status, Gender, Email Opt-Out\n• Bulk Add to Group / Remove from Group\n• Bulk Delete (with confirmation step)\n• Use the select-all checkbox to grab your full filtered list instantly\n• Where to find it: People list → search/filter → check boxes → Actions button\n\nTry It This Week:\n• Integrations: Think about the tools your church already uses — Slack, Google Sheets, Clearstream, Mailchimp, Text In Church, Subsplash, Donorbox. Check the integrations guide (link below) and connect one to B1.\n• Bulk Actions: Go to your People list, filter for records that need the same update, select them all, and hit Actions. New members to update, people to add to a group, inactive records to clean up — whatever's been sitting on your list.\n\nWant ChurchApps at your conference?\nWe provide full tech support + a custom B1 app for all attendees — at no cost to the conference.\nContact us: conference@churchapps.org\n\nResources:\n• Integrations guide: https://support.churchapps.org/docs/b1-admin/integrations/\n• Zapier setup: https://support.churchapps.org/docs/b1-admin/integrations/zapier\n• Slack & Discord setup: https://support.churchapps.org/docs/b1-admin/integrations/slack-discord\n• https://support.churchapps.org\n• https://github.com/ChurchApps","audio_key":"audio/2026-05-28-2026-05-23-episode-12.mp3","duration":"00:09:37","file_size":4620085,"pub_date":"2026-05-28","season":1,"episode_num":12},{"guid":"5dcd998b-f862-47c8-99f9-44a7c38bb949","title":"On the Ground in Kentucky — FreeShow, ChurchApps, and the Global Church Tech Community with Garry B Jr.","description":"Micheal sits down with Garry B Jr. at the Kentucky Worship and Technology Conference, hosted by the Southern Baptist Association. Recorded live at Kingdom Glory House, they talk about what happened at the conference, the growing FreeShow and ChurchApps community, and how free tools are changing the game for churches everywhere.\n\nTopics covered:\n\n- The Kentucky Worship and Technology Conference — how it came together, what churches learned, and how FreeShow was already known before anyone opened their mouth\n- Garry's FreeShow workshop — attendees leaving ready to download and use it immediately, from young tech volunteers to seasoned worship leaders\n- The Amazing Life / A-Play Pro partnership — supporting churches coming from ProPresenter with curriculum-integrated presentation tools, and helping fund FreeShow development\n- Larry from Kingdom Glory House — discovered the conference through FreeShow Friday and connected with the team to set up his church's live stream, PTZ cameras, and OBS\n- FreeShow Friday — the global community call where tech booth volunteers from Australia, New Jersey, Indonesia, Africa, and beyond share tips and solve problems together in real time\n- The tech booth ministry — why the people running sound, slides, and cameras are essential to the message being heard, and why good tools make that job easier\n- FreeShow vs ProPresenter vs OpenLP — how all three serve different needs, why churches can use more than one, and how FreeShow brings flexibility without the price tag\n- Garry's story — from a prayer for direction in Kansas City to becoming the \"FreeShow Evangelist,\" training churches and making videos that unlock what people didn't know the software could do\n- Open source and the kingdom — developers jumping in on GitHub, partnerships that work because there's no money in the way, and the vision of sharing tools freely with the global church\n\nGuest:\n- Garry B Jr. — FreeShow evangelist, trainer, and content creator\n- Website: https://www.garrybjr.com/\n- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theGarryBjr\n\nConference:\n- Kentucky Worship and Technology Conference: https://www.worshiptechnology.net/\n\nResources:\n- FreeShow: https://freeshow.app\n- Amazing Life: https://amazinglife.com/\n- ChurchApps: https://churchapps.org\n- github.com/ChurchApps","audio_key":"audio/2026-05-15-churchapps-and-garryb.mp3","duration":"00:34:35","file_size":67516730,"pub_date":"2026-05-15","season":null,"episode_num":11},{"guid":"fc23ee11-d6b7-47ae-9a42-7c9b4f452909","title":"Give Online for Free — How B1 Giving Actually Works","description":"How B1 Giving Works:\n- Every B1 church creates their own free Stripe account (Stripe is the current supported processor — if better options develop the integration, we'll add them)\n- ChurchApps wraps around your Stripe account — providing the giving page, fund management, donor records, giving statements, and all the tools\n- ChurchApps retains zero percent of donations — all money goes directly from donor to your Stripe account to your bank\n- No monthly fee from ChurchApps, no transaction fee from ChurchApps\n\nWhat other platforms charge (for comparison):\n- Tithe.ly: 2.9% + $0.30 per card transaction, no monthly fee for giving-only plan — uses own processor, not Stripe directly\n- Planning Center Giving: 2.15% + $0.30 per card, plus $15–$239/month subscription based on donation volume — uses Stripe on back end\n- Rebel Give: 1.9% fee added to donor's gift (church receives 100%), plus $29–$199/month platform fee to the church\n- Stripe standard: 2.9% + $0.30 per card transaction\n- Sources: Tithe.ly: https://get.tithe.ly/pricing | Planning Center: https://www.planningcenter.com/pricing | Rebel Give: https://www.rebelgive.com/pricing | Stripe: https://stripe.com/pricing\n\nStripe Nonprofit Rate:\n- Because you own your own Stripe account, you can call Stripe and ask about a nonprofit rate\n- Stripe doesn't advertise a fixed nonprofit rate — every church is different — but churches have gotten rates down to around 1.9% as a 501(c)(3)\n- This conversation is only possible because B1 gives you a direct Stripe account — platforms that use their own processors don't give you this option\n\nDonor fee coverage:\n- Donors can optionally choose to cover the processing fee so the church receives the full gift amount\n- Completely optional — donor's choice at time of giving\n\nWhy integration matters:\n- Donations through B1 giving automatically log to the donor's member record\n- Year-end giving statements generated automatically\n- Recurring giving tracked automatically\n- No manual data entry needed — unlike PayPal or disconnected third-party tools\n\nNew: Donation element in the website editor:\n- Drag a donation form onto any page in the B1 website editor\n- Choose which funds appear, set a default fund, toggle one-time and/or recurring giving\n- Embed giving directly on a campaign page, missions page, or your home page — no redirects, no custom code\n\nTry It This Week:\n1. Create a free Stripe account at stripe.com — select \"nonprofit\" as your business type\n2. Connect Stripe to B1 Admin: Donations section — setup guide at support.churchapps.org\n3. If you're a 501(c)(3): call Stripe and ask about a nonprofit rate — have your IRS determination letter and Stripe account ID ready\n4. In your B1 website editor: add the donation element to a page, set your fund, save, and see it live\n\nResources:\n- support.churchapps.org\n- stripe.com (create account)\n- Stripe nonprofit discount: https://support.stripe.com/questions/fee-discount-for-nonprofit-organizations\n- github.com/ChurchApps","audio_key":"audio/2026-05-15-2026-05-15-episode-10.mp3","duration":"00:08:49","file_size":4236277,"pub_date":"2026-05-08","season":null,"episode_num":10},{"guid":"6cc7956f-b524-43bc-aef1-58515297ebc4","title":"Build It, Reach Them, Welcome Them — Three Updates That Matter","description":"Three practical updates across ChurchApps — one for building your website, one for reaching your people, and one for welcoming new members.\n\nBuild It — The B1 website editor got a significant overhaul. Settings now open as side panels instead of popups so you can see your page while you edit. Drag and drop is easier with larger drop zones. Undo and redo are fully supported with Ctrl+Z and Cmd+Z, and a History button in the toolbar lets you jump back to any saved snapshot of your page. There's also a built-in help dialog right in the editor so anyone on your team can get started without hunting for documentation.\n\nReach Them — When you add someone to a group, serving team, or role, you now get the option to send them an invite email automatically. Your choice every time — send it or skip it. No more volunteers being added to a team and never finding out.\n\nWelcome Them — New members now receive a six-digit verification code instead of a set-password link when creating their account. The whole process stays inside the app — no clicking a link that opens a browser, setting a password there, then going back to log in. You see the code, you type it in, you're done.\n\nTry It This Week:\n1. Open your B1 website editor, make a change, and press Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z — then check the History button in the toolbar\n2. Add someone to a group or team and watch for the invite email prompt\n3. Walk through new member registration with a test account to see the verification code flow\n\nResources:\nsupport.churchapps.org\nsupport.churchapps.org/docs/b1-admin/website/page-editor\ngithub.com/ChurchApps","audio_key":"audio/2026-04-29-2026-05-15-episode-9.mp3","duration":"00:06:12","file_size":2984245,"pub_date":"2026-04-29","season":1,"episode_num":9},{"guid":"8cea0b74-694f-4214-9a62-653c982543a3","title":"Your Church Website — Built Free, No Code Required","description":"Every B1 church account includes a free, full-featured website builder — no developer, no monthly platform fee, no third-party tools required. In this episode, Micheal and Kari walk through everything you need to get your church website up and running.\n\nTopics covered: setting up your domain, building pages with sections and content elements, getting your logos right and why you need four different versions, navigation, reusable blocks, and managing your files.\n\nA 2025 audit of 2,725 churches found only about 1 in 3 have a website that makes a good first impression. Pew Research confirms online search is one of the primary ways people find a new church. Your website is the first impression — before anyone ever walks through the door.\n\nB1 AI Prompt Guide — download the free guide, drag it into Claude Desktop, type \"I want to build my church website in B1,\" and Claude walks you through the whole thing. No tech skills required. Most people have a professionally styled section on their site within 10 minutes.\n\nDownload the guide: https://churchapps-podcast-rss.micheal-ab4.workers.dev/b1-guide\n\nWant a human to help? Emily at S Five Design works specifically with churches on their B1 websites. Start with a free website evaluation, then set up a one-on-one call to get your site built right.\n\nFree evaluation: https://go.churchapps.org/current-website-satisfaction-value-assessment\nEmily's website: https://sfivedesign.com/\n\nResources:\nsupport.churchapps.org\nadmin.b1.church\ngithub.com/ChurchApps\n\nSources:\nOne Eighty Digital, \"State of Church Websites: Insights from 2,725 Churches\" (Feb 2025) — https://oneeighty.digital/2025/02/03/state-of-church-websites-insights/\nPew Research Center, \"How Americans Search for a New Religious Congregation\" (2016) — https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2016/08/23/1-the-search-for-a-new-congregation/","audio_key":"audio/2026-05-15-2026-05-15-episode-8.mp3","duration":"00:12:28","file_size":5969845,"pub_date":"2026-04-21","season":1,"episode_num":8},{"guid":"8208b625-4d7f-4451-9465-b78280679d8b","title":"Spring Updates: Everything New Across ChurchApps","description":"Over the past decade, private equity has quietly purchased most of the major church software platforms. This episode explains what that means for churches — and what the alternatives are.\n\nMicheal and Kari cover what open source actually means, the private equity consolidation happening across church software, and the real risk of vendor lock-in. Companies covered include Ministry Brands (30+ brands, over 90,000 organizations), Pushpay and Church Community Builder, Tithely and Breeze, ACS Technologies, and Subsplash (sold to Roper Technologies in 2025). They also cover Gloo, which targets 245 million Americans with church-related data and cut its free tier by 95% after going public.\n\nHonest comparison: paid software is not bad, and some platforms like Planning Center have legal protections against being sold. The concern is PE ownership and what happens when the business model shifts.\n\nAlternatives covered: Planning Center (Ministry Centered Foundation — legally cannot be sold), Rock RMS (open source for larger churches with technical capacity), and ChurchApps (free, open source, built for churches without IT staff).\n\nTry It This Week: Google your current church software provider plus the words \"private equity\" or \"acquired by\" and see what comes up.\n\nResources:\nChurch Software Transparency research: https://churchapps.org/church-software-transparency\nPlanning Center commitment: https://www.planningcenter.com/blog/2024/06/a-commitment-for-our-customers-never-being-acquired\nRock RMS: https://rockrms.com\ngithub.com/ChurchApps","audio_key":"audio/2026-04-15-2026-04-17-episode-8.mp3","duration":"00:07:29","file_size":3600373,"pub_date":"2026-04-15","season":1,"episode_num":7},{"guid":"7d674af1-4dd7-4218-a59e-995207d9d107","title":"Your Church App — Free, Branded, and Ready for Sunday","description":"The B1 Church mobile app is completely free and fully branded with your church name, logo, and colors — no monthly fee, no per-seat pricing.\n\nMicheal and Kari walk through everything the app includes: giving with recurring support and auto receipts, calendar, groups, member directory, kids check-in, and push notifications. Push notifications are free — send to everyone, a specific group, or your volunteers, and schedule them ahead of time.\n\nCustom tabs let you add any web page as a tab inside your app — sermon archive, prayer requests, volunteer signup, live stream, whatever your church already uses.\n\nPlatforms that charge for comparable apps: Tithely at $89 per month for a standalone app, Pushpay and Subsplash with pricing available only by quote. B1 is free.\n\nTry It This Week: create your free account at b1.church, upload your logo and set your color palette under Website then Appearance, add a custom tab under Mobile for something your church already uses, download the B1 Church app and search your church to walk through it as a member. If you are paying for another app — compare what you are getting versus what is already free.\n\nResources:\nb1.church\nsupport.churchapps.org\ngithub.com/ChurchApps","audio_key":"audio/2026-04-09-2026-03-27-episode-6.mp3","duration":"00:06:44","file_size":3248437,"pub_date":"2026-04-09","season":1,"episode_num":6},{"guid":"0144cf4a-8123-4858-a239-36b275272d7a","title":"Groups vs. Teams — Two Features, Two Jobs, Zero Confusion","description":"Groups and Teams are two different tools in ChurchApps — and mixing them up is one of the most common mistakes churches make. This episode clears it up.\n\nGroups are for organizing and communicating with people — small groups, classes, ministries. Teams are for scheduling volunteers for specific services, found under the Serving section. They are not interchangeable. The same person can be in both: a Group for communication and a Team for scheduling.\n\nTerry Byrd from ChurchApps support joins as a guest and shares what he hears from churches every day.\n\nTry It This Week: go to Groups and identify anything that is really about scheduling — that belongs in Teams. Then go to Serving and set up one Team for a rotating volunteer ministry, build a simple service plan, and send one schedule notification.\n\nResources:\nsupport.churchapps.org\nsupport@churchapps.org\ngithub.com/ChurchApps","audio_key":"audio/2026-03-20-2026-03-20-episode-4-final.mp3","duration":"00:05:42","file_size":5476150,"pub_date":"2026-03-20","season":null,"episode_num":5},{"guid":"71cfa176-d74b-4f7b-97bd-6ece512180bc","title":"Check-In Safety: Protecting Every Child, Every Sunday","description":"Kids check-in systems protect against the most common child safety risk in churches — custody disputes. A noncustodial parent showing up while the custodial parent is in the service, with no system in place, is a real legal and safety issue.\n\nMicheal and Kari walk through how a matching security code system works: one tag on the child, one with the adult who dropped them off. The codes must match at checkout. Everyone checks in and checks out, every time — consistency is what makes the system work.\n\nB1 Checkin is a free Android app that runs on a Samsung Galaxy Tab or Amazon Fire tablet and connects to a Brother label printer over WiFi. One-time hardware cost of around $200 to $350 total. No monthly fee, no per-device charge.\n\nCompeting systems: KidCheck starts at $25 per month per device. Planning Center can run up to $200 per month.\n\nNew features covered: custom background image for the kiosk screen (upload your church photo or logo), idle screen slideshow to display announcements between check-ins, and QR code guest registration so first-time families can self-register on their phone and check in immediately without a volunteer.\n\nTry It This Week: set up attendance groups in B1 Admin, upload a background image under Attendance then Kiosk Settings, enable QR guest registration under Mobile then Check-In, download B1 Checkin on an Android tablet, and do a full test run before Sunday.\n\nResources:\nsupport.churchapps.org\ngithub.com/ChurchApps\nb1.church\nBrother QL-1110NWB printer (recommended)\nSamsung Galaxy Tab A8 (recommended tablet)","audio_key":"audio/2026-04-10-2026-04-10-episode-6.mp3","duration":"00:06:09","file_size":2955382,"pub_date":"2026-03-18","season":1,"episode_num":4},{"guid":"2fd9b3cb-37dd-41bd-a5c5-3db5594031f7","title":"FreePlay — Every TV Is Now a Gospel Machine","description":"FreePlay is a free app for Apple TV, Amazon Fire Stick, and Google TV that gives any church immediate access to an enormous library of free Christian content — the Bible Project, the Jesus Film, Ark Curriculum, For Ministry Resources, and everything on Lessons.church. No account required to get started.\n\nThis is not just a kids ministry tool. FreePlay works for any classroom, any age group, any setting — kindergartners, senior adult Sunday school, youth group, small groups at home.\n\nArk Curriculum from The Ark Church in Conroe, Texas is completely free — three full years of content for preschool and three separate full years for elementary. For Ministry Resources covers junior high and high school with complete lesson plans and graphics ready to go.\n\nContent downloads to the device during the week so it plays fully offline on Sunday morning — no WiFi needed, no buffering, no panic five minutes before class.\n\nConnect FreePlay to B1 Admin with a one-time QR code scan and your children's ministry coordinator can schedule which lessons play in which classrooms from B1 Admin on Monday — and on Sunday the right content is already downloaded and ready on every classroom TV.\n\nDropbox integration also available for churches using their own content or curriculum providers not yet connected.\n\nFirst tester reaction: \"I just ran through the demo. Holy moly that is impressive.\"\n\nEverything is open source on GitHub under ChurchApps. Roku not currently supported.\n\nTry It This Week: search FreePlay on your Apple TV, Fire Stick, or Google TV and download it. Browse Ark Curriculum and For Ministry Resources. Visit support.churchapps.org and click FreePlay for B1 Admin setup guides.\n\nResources:\nsupport.churchapps.org (click FreePlay)\nlessons.church\nsupport@churchapps.org (for curriculum providers wanting to integrate)\ngithub.com/ChurchApps","audio_key":"audio/2026-03-13-2026-03-13-episode-3-v2.mp3","duration":"00:06:34","file_size":3155893,"pub_date":"2026-03-13","season":1,"episode_num":3},{"guid":"2790f161-79fd-4930-96a5-513128c6f85b","title":"What's New in ChurchApps - Spring Update","description":"ChurchApps has been busy — this episode covers a round of recent updates across the platform.\n\nMicheal and Kari walk through native event registration with capacity limits and CSV export, self-service volunteer signup, QR code guest check-in, check-in kiosk theming with custom backgrounds and idle screen slideshows, email templates for groups with merge fields, the audit log under Settings, giving dashboard KPI cards, and the new FreePlay downloads tab.\n\nTry It This Week: toggle event registration on a calendar event, enable self-signup on a volunteer position, set up a QR code at your check-in kiosk, create an email template for a group, and check the Donations dashboard summary cards.\n\nResources:\nsupport.churchapps.org\ngithub.com/ChurchApps","audio_key":"audio/2026-03-06-2026-03-06-podcast-2.mp3","duration":"00:09:38","file_size":4627765,"pub_date":"2026-03-06","season":1,"episode_num":2},{"guid":"7ccd0d21-5a6e-48b7-9fcd-cf15892ef67d","title":"Welcome to the ChurchApps Podcast","description":"Welcome to the ChurchApps Podcast — free software built by the church, for the church.\n\nIn this first episode, Micheal and Kari introduce the podcast and share the story behind ChurchApps. They cover who ChurchApps is for, why it was built, and what you can expect from future episodes.\n\nChurchApps is a suite of completely free, open-source tools built to help churches manage people, check in kids, stream content, build websites, and more — with no subscription fees and no per-seat pricing.\n\nLearn more at support.churchapps.org or find the code at github.com/ChurchApps.","audio_key":"audio/2026-03-06-2026-03-06-episode-1.mp3","duration":"00:07:51","file_size":3776629,"pub_date":"2026-03-05","season":1,"episode_num":1}]