What’s in the Pastors Network?
Pulpit Cover
No more endless emails and phone calls scrambling for Sunday cover. With Pastors Network, finding a preacher for your pulpit takes a single click.
Post your need and reach your entire network instantly, seasoned pastors who can step in at short notice, and newer preachers looking for a place to cut their teeth. You set the parameters: your church tradition, service style, and theological convictions are all visible up front, so every match is a good fit before the conversation even starts.
And it works both ways. If you’re a preacher looking to gain experience or serve beyond your own congregation, you can make yourself available across the network. Pulpit swaps between pastors are just as simple, freeing you both to serve where you’re needed most.
Everything stays within your trusted network of gospel partners, so you can rest easy knowing your congregation will hear faithful, Christ-centred preaching every Sunday, whether you’re in the pulpit or not.
Community Calendar
Ministry doesn’t happen in isolation, and neither should your diary. The Community Calendar gives you a single view of everything happening across your network — conferences, training days, prayer gatherings, ordinations, and any event your fellow churches need to know about.
Any pastor in your network can post an event, and it’s instantly visible to everyone who shares that connection. No more missed invitations buried in email threads or Facebook groups. If it matters to the network, it’s here.
You can filter by network, browse what’s coming up, and plan ahead with confidence — knowing you won’t accidentally clash with the regional prayer day or miss a preaching workshop that would benefit your team.
It’s a simple idea with a big impact: when churches know what each other are doing, they show up for one another. And that’s what being part of a network is all about.
Ask for help
Ministry can be lonely, and not every challenge has an obvious answer. Whether it’s a tricky pastoral situation, a theological question you want to think through with others, or a practical need you can’t meet on your own — Ask for Help lets you put the call out to your whole network in moments.
Post your request and it reaches every pastor and preacher in your network. Those who can help will respond directly, bringing experience, wisdom, and the kind of honest counsel that only comes from people who understand the weight of what you carry.
It’s confidential, it’s quick, and it’s built on the trust that already exists between gospel partners. No public forums, no social media — just a quiet call to the people who get it.
You weren’t meant to do this alone. Now you don’t have to.
More books. Lower costs. Bigger outreach.
Harness the power of your network to put more Gospel-centered resources in more hands.
Every pastor wants to get good books into the hands of their people. But buying a handful of copies at full retail price adds up fast — and stretching the book budget only goes so far.
BookShare flips that on its head. Instead of buying alone, you pledge alongside other pastors in your network — and the more who join, the cheaper it gets for everyone.
Here’s how it works. When a title is listed, you don’t pay upfront. You make a Ministry Promise for the number of copies your church needs. As more pastors across your network do the same, the order grows — and the price per book drops through wholesale discount tiers that none of you could reach on your own. Coordinate a single delivery point for your network and you can eliminate shipping costs entirely.
The titles are curated from publishers you already know and trust. No filler, no guesswork — just solid, gospel-centred resources at prices that let you buy generously rather than cautiously.
Whether it’s copies of a new book for your home groups, resources for your leadership team, or evangelistic material to give away freely — BookShare means your outreach budget goes further than it ever could alone.
Stop buying in isolation. Start saving as a community.
“Even the smallest church can resource its community well when we work together.”
Members Database
Every church needs a reliable record of its people — members, regular attenders, visitors, and volunteers. The Members Database gives you one secure, central place to manage it all.
Store the details that matter: contact information, family groupings, roles, DBS status, safeguarding training, and consent records. Tag and filter your congregation however you need — by membership status, serving team, or any custom category that fits your church life.
But it’s not just a list of names. The Members Database is the foundation that powers other tools across the platform — pastoral visit records, compliance tracking, rota planning, and more. Build it once, and it works everywhere.
With everything in one place, you’ll never miss a DBS renewal, lose track of a newcomer, or scramble to pull together numbers for your annual return. Your data stays secure, GDPR-compliant, and under your control as the data controller for your church.
It’s the unglamorous backbone of good church administration — and it’ll save you hours every week.
Pastoral Visitations
Caring for your flock is at the heart of what you do. But as your church grows and life gets busy, it’s easy for people to slip through the cracks – the widow you meant to call back, the new family you haven’t visited yet, the member who’s been quietly absent for weeks.
Pastoral Visits gives you a simple way to log every visit, phone call, and pastoral conversation, and schedule follow-ups so nothing gets missed. Add private notes that only you can see, record the date, and set a reminder for when you need to check in again.
You can see at a glance who you’ve visited recently and, just as importantly, who you haven’t. Filter by time since last contact and you’ll spot the people who need your attention before they drift away.
It’s not about ticking boxes. It’s about making sure that the shepherd knows his sheep, and that no one in your congregation feels unseen. This tool simply helps you do what you already want to do – just more faithfully and consistently.
Notes
You know how it goes. You’re driving home from a meeting and an idea hits you. You wake up at 3am remembering something you promised to sort out. A conversation after the service sparks a thought you don’t want to lose. The Notebook is where all of that lands.
Jot down notes, thoughts, and reminders as they come — quickly and from wherever you are. But it’s more than a personal scratchpad. When something needs action, you can turn a note into a task and delegate it straight to a member of your leadership team, with a due date and a clear owner.
It keeps your ministry organised without the overhead of a complicated project management tool. Just simple notes, simple tasks, and a clear view of what’s been done and what’s still outstanding.
Whether it’s sermon prep ideas, a safeguarding action you need to follow up, or a reminder to book the hall for the men’s breakfast — if it matters, write it down. If someone else needs to do it, hand it off. If it’s done, tick it off.
Your head was never meant to hold all of this. Now it doesn’t have to.
Compliance and Operations
Running a church means juggling more legal and operational responsibilities than most people realise. Insurance renewals, fire risk assessments, boiler servicing, DBS checks, safeguarding training, first aid certificates — miss one and you could face serious consequences.
Inside the platform, this is split into two purpose-built sections that work together. Operations handles the building and organisational side: recurring items like fire extinguisher servicing, PAT testing, and insurance renewals. Set each item’s frequency, assign it to a team member, and you’ll get clear warnings before anything lapses. It comes pre-loaded with the items most churches need, complete with legal guidance notes explaining the requirement behind each one.
Compliance handles the people side: tracking DBS checks, safeguarding training, food hygiene certificates, and anything else that needs to be current for every person who serves in your church. Each individual has a clear record, and you can see your whole church’s status at a glance — filtered by category, by person, or by urgency.
Together, they give you one complete picture of every obligation your church carries — whether it’s a building, a policy, or a person. When the question comes at your trustees’ meeting — “are we covered?” — you’ll have the answer immediately, and the records to back it up.
Prayer Log
People share prayer requests with you all the time — after a service, in a text message, halfway through a pastoral visit. And you mean to pray. But life moves fast, and without a record, requests get buried and forgotten. Worse, when God answers, nobody remembers to give thanks.
The Prayer Log gives you a simple, private place to capture every request as it comes in — whether it’s from a church member, a fellow pastor, or something shared across your network. Log it in seconds from wherever you are, and it’s there when you sit down to pray.
You can track the journey of each request over time: add updates as situations develop, mark prayers as answered, and look back over a record of God’s faithfulness that would otherwise be lost to memory. It’s the kind of thing that transforms your prayer life from a vague intention into a concrete discipline.
For your own devotional life, it keeps you faithful to the people who’ve trusted you with their burdens. For your church, it means no one walks away from a conversation thinking their request disappeared into thin air.