Shep does not score your people. It scores your team.
One number, and it asks one question: how well do we know them? It goes up when your team is intentional about relationships, follow up, and discipleship. It never grades anyone's faith.
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- Nobody is his shepherd yet
- Last talked with him 71 days ago
- No notes on his story in 90 days
- In a small group
That number is ours to raise, not his.
What the score asks of your team
Do we know them?
Is their story written down where the team can read it.
Does someone own the relationship?
Every person has a shepherd, and people around them.
Did we follow up?
A real conversation lately, not a note from last year.
Are we walking with them?
A next step on a journey, a milestone, a 1 on 1.
Not just the numbers. The story.
Open one feed and see what is happening in people's lives across the whole church. Scroll it, react, ask a question.
When a pastor is reading and responding, the team keeps writing. That is how being involved with people becomes the culture.
On the go and in the office.
Shep is a web app at your desk and an iPhone app everywhere else. Same people, same story, in both places.
As easy as the apps your team already uses
Familiar from the first minute
- If you can post on Instagram or Facebook, you can add a note in Shep
- A feed to scroll, with reactions and comments
- Nothing to train a volunteer on
Write it while you still remember it
On your iPhone
- Add a note in the parking lot after the conversation
- Mark a milestone on the spot
- Get a reminder before a 1 on 1
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Celebrate the growth, not just the crisis.
You will find that here. A note after a visit. A follow up with a name and a date on it. 1 on 1s that stay private.
But caring for someone in a hard season is one part of shepherding them. The rest is knowing their story, and most of a story is good news.
The hard weeks
What pastoral care software is built for
- A surgery, a loss, a hard conversation
- Who visited and what was said
- A follow up so nobody forgets
The good ones too
What Shep adds
- Baptisms, salvations, and first steps
- The new job, the new baby, the answered prayer
- Anniversaries of the day someone said yes
- A shepherd for every person, not only the hurting
Looking for a church CRM?
Shep is not a CRM. A CRM moves a list toward a sale, and your people are not a list.
What a good one gets right is worth keeping: every person has someone responsible for them, a history the whole team can read, and a next step. Shep keeps those and leaves the sales language behind.
Three kinds of tools, and where Shep sits
Your database has the names. Shep has the story.
Swipe sideways to see all three.
| Church database | Pastoral care software | Shep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Running the week: services, groups, check-ins | Caring for people in a hard season | Knowing every person, in every season |
| Opened | Around Sunday | When something is wrong | Every day |
| Measures | Attendance and giving | Visits and requests | How well your team knows each person |
| Feels like | A directory | A care log | A feed, like the apps your team already uses |
| Holds | Names, households, schedules | Visits and care notes | The whole story: notes, wins, milestones, next steps |
| Used by | Admins and staff | Pastors and the care team | The whole team, down to group leaders |
| Together | Stays your system of record | Often a separate list of people | Syncs with Planning Center, or runs on its own |
Care is a culture, not a department.
When every leader can add a note and every person has a shepherd, knowing people stops being one pastor's job.
Every person has a shepherd.
Not only the people in crisis. Everyone has someone who is keeping up with them.
One feed. The whole team in the loop.
A win written down on Tuesday is something the whole team can celebrate on Sunday.
Some conversations stay between you and them.
1 on 1s are always private. The team sees the story, not the confidence.
People who are connected stay.
New people who stay make about seven friends in their first six months. Those who leave make fewer than two.
Of the people who leave a church, 82% leave in their first year.
Source: Gary McIntosh and Charles Arn, What Every Pastor Should Know.
Questions
- Does Shep score people?
- No. It scores the team, and how well they are walking with each person. The score is never shown to the person.
- Is Shep pastoral care software?
- It does that job: notes after a visit, follow ups with an owner, private 1 on 1s. It also keeps the wins and milestones, because most of walking with someone is not a crisis.
- Is Shep a church CRM?
- No. Shep is where a church team keeps up with people, not a sales tool with church words on it.
- Does Shep replace our church management system?
- No. Your database stays the system of record. Shep syncs from it and adds the relationship on top.
Every person has a story worth knowing.
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