Reach your neighbors
Your next first-time visitor lives less than five miles away.
They drive past your building every week. They have never heard your pastor's name. They don't follow your page — and they never will, because nothing you post ever reaches them.
DivineReach fixes exactly that. We take the content your church already posts and put it in front of people in a tight radius around your building, capture RSVPs on a page built for you, and follow up by text like a friendly greeter would.
No calls, no meetings, no contract. Apply online, approve one screen, ads live the same day.
For churches, ministries, Christian-owned businesses and Christian charities.
The problem every church has
You are posting to people who already come.
Your announcements reach your members. The same faithful few like every post. The numbers look fine — and nothing about your neighborhood changes.
The measure that actually matters is not how many followers you have. It is how many strangers you reached this month — because a stranger who sees you is the only person who can become a first-time visitor.
Most churches never see that number. It sits inside an ads dashboard nobody logs into, and it quietly stays near zero while everyone assumes social media is "handled."
Proof
What that looks like when it works
A non-denominational Christian church in the Pacific Northwest, social audience of roughly 5,900. Seven months of data, January to July 2026. Identity withheld; figures used with permission.
of everyone who saw this church's content was not already following it.
Not the congregation. Neighbors who didn't know the church existed.
Still true this month · the last 28 days
And it ran on roughly $100 a month in ad budget. Not a five-figure campaign — a number most small churches can find in an existing line item. That is precisely why our floor is set where it is, and why we don't ask you to spend more before you've seen it work.
Measured 1 January – 30 July 2026, and the 28-day figures 15 July – 11 August 2026, from Meta's own analytics. These are organic page figures, reported honestly and not modelled. Follower count was essentially flat across the period — the story here is reach, not followers, because followers don't fill seats. Total view volume was slightly below the preceding seven months; what improved was how many of those views came from strangers and how long they stayed. Ad spend across the period averaged approximately $100 per month; view totals are page-level and include organic reach as well as promoted posts.
How it works
Four steps, and only one of them needs you.
We boost what you already post
The sermon clip, the service photo, the event graphic — your real content, pushed to people inside a 1–10 mile radius who have never heard of you. Not staged creative. What your church actually made, seen by strangers.
Give them somewhere to say yes
A branded RSVP page for your service or event. Name, mobile, done. No app, no account, no friction.
Follow up warmly
Three texts in your church's voice — a thank-you when they RSVP, a reminder the day before, and a warm note with your livestream link if you don't see them. Never two in a day.
Choose and see results
Pick which post or event to promote from your dashboard — or let the AI suggest one — then watch sign-ups, cost and reach in plain English. Every week your greeters get the visitor list before Sunday.
What's included
Everything runs for you. Nothing lands on a volunteer.
There is no software for your team to learn and no new job for anyone on staff. You approve the message; we do the rest.
Local radius targeting
We map your actual neighborhood — not your zip code — and set the radius to match how far people really travel to you.
Your own content, amplified
This is the main thing we do. We take what you already post — sermon clips, service photos, event graphics — and pay to put it in front of strangers nearby. Nothing staged, nothing stocky, nothing that sounds like a marketing agency wrote it. It already sounds like your church, because your church made it.
Tuned every month to whatever is working
Nothing is set once and forgotten. Each month the AI reads your real numbers — which posts travelled, where RSVPs came from, how often the same people saw you, what a sign-up cost — and adjusts. It re-draws the radius: saturated your core mile, it widens; spending on people too far away to visit, it tightens. It also shifts budget toward whichever outcome is actually moving for you, whether that's engagement or sign-ups. You get a plain-English note explaining what changed and why.
And if there's nothing to promote
Some weeks the page is quiet. Tap Create a post in your dashboard, answer two questions — what's happening, and when — and the AI drafts three posts in your church's voice. Pick one, edit it, post it. It's the backup, not the plan: promoting something real you made will almost always beat something written for you.
You pick what gets promoted
Open your dashboard, see your recent posts and upcoming events, and choose what to push. Or let the AI recommend the one most likely to travel.
Your RSVP landing page
Branded to your church, mobile-first, loads fast. Service times, a map, and one short form.
Automated text follow-up
Written in your voice and fully opt-in. A thank-you, a reminder the day before, and — if they don't make it — a gentle note a few days later with a link to watch online. Three messages, never a barrage.
Your own dashboard
Sign-ups, cost per RSVP, reach, and who watched online — in language a pastor can read in ten seconds.
Sunday-morning visitor briefing
Before each service, your team gets an email with the names of who said they're coming and how many they're bringing. So greeters can welcome them by name, sit with them, pray with them, and walk them to a group — not hope somebody notices the new family by the door.
Can't make it? They still meet you
If someone misses Sunday, their follow-up text includes your livestream or YouTube link — and we register the click, so you know who watched from home and who to invite back in person. The screen is a doorway, not the destination.
Texting compliance handled
Carrier registration, consent capture, and instant opt-out are set up and maintained for you. This part is not optional, and we don't skip it.
Honest comparison
Your three real options.
We'd rather you choose with clear eyes than be talked into something.
| A volunteer or staffer | DivineReach AI | A general marketing agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | "Free" — but it's someone's evenings | $250–$600 | $1,500–$5,000+ |
| Setup fee | None | None, ever | Commonly $1,500–$2,000 |
| Contract required | No | Month to month | Often 12 months to waive setup |
| Understands church culture | Yes | Yes — it's all we do | Rarely |
| Knows Meta ads properly | Usually boosting posts | Radius targeting, tested weekly | Yes |
| Follow-up after RSVP | Often forgotten | Automatic, every time | Usually extra |
| Texting compliance | Typically unaware of it | Set up and maintained | Often ignored |
| Survives a volunteer leaving | No | Yes | Yes |
Getting started
No meetings. No discovery call. Live the same day.
You don't need another calendar invite. Everything below happens online, at whatever hour suits you — our AI assistant does the asking, and you approve the answers.
Apply online
The form on this page, plus a few questions from our assistant about your service times, your neighborhood and what you'd most like people to show up to.
We build it while you get on with your day
Your radius is mapped from your address, your RSVP page is generated in your branding, your text sequences are drafted in your voice, and ad creative is pulled from your recent posts. If there's nothing worth promoting, the AI writes something and shows it to you.
One screen, one button
You see the ad, the page, the texts and the radius on a single screen. Change anything you like, then hit approve. That's the only moment we actually need you.
Your ads go live
Usually within the hour. Billing starts the day your ads go live — never before.
Texting switches itself on
Carriers require every organization sending automated texts to be registered. We file yours the moment you apply, and follow-up turns on by itself once they approve. That wait belongs to the carriers, not to us.
Prefer to talk to a human? You can — just ask. But you shouldn't have to book a call and wait three days to find out whether a service is right for you, so nothing here requires one.
Pricing
Priced by the size of your church.
One flat monthly fee for the software and the management. Month to month — no long contract, cancel any time.
every tier
Start before October 15 and your rate is $100 a month off — for good.
Any church that starts before October 15, 2026 pays $100 a month less than list — $150 instead of $250 for churches under 250 a week, $300 instead of $400 for 250–600, $500 instead of $600 for larger — and that rate is locked for as long as you stay. It does not step up after a year. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any time from your dashboard in one click.
One thing to be straight about: the monthly fee is ours, not your ad budget. You set a minimum of $100 a month and pay Meta directly on your own card — we never touch it and we take no cut of it. Billing for our fee starts the day your ads go live, which is usually the same day you apply. You are never billed for setup time.
No setup fee, no contract, and no call to sit through. Pick the tier that matches your Sunday attendance — you can change it any time as you grow.
Small
Under 250 weekly attendance
- Local radius ad campaigns
- Branded RSVP landing page
- Automated text follow-up
- Your own dashboard
- Texting compliance handled
- Monthly optimization
Medium
250–600 weekly attendance
- Everything in Small
- Multi-campaign testing
- Event-specific funnels
- Priority optimization
- Monthly performance review
Large
600+ weekly attendance
- Everything in Medium
- Multi-service & campus targeting
- Giving & volunteer funnels
- Advanced audience testing
- Front of the queue for human review
More than one location? Every one after the first is 20% off. Each site gets its own radius, its own campaign and its own page — a second campus five miles away is reaching a different neighborhood entirely, so it is real separate work. But it costs us less than the first, and the price reflects that. A business with three shops pays $250 + $200 + $200 = $650. A church with a 500-seat main campus and a 150-seat plant pays $400 + $200 = $600. Each church campus is priced on its own attendance, not the combined total.
Christian-owned businesses and charities: $250 a month per location. The tiers above are for churches, where weekly attendance is a fair way to size things. A construction company, a car dealership, a landscaper, a retail shop, a salon or an orphan relief charity doesn't work that way — so there are no size tiers, just one rate per location. A one-chair salon and a roofing crew pay the same, because they need the same work. Extra locations follow the same rule as churches: every one after the first is 20% off, so three shops is $250 + $200 + $200 = $650. The eligibility standard is identical: historic Christian faith, affirmed when you apply.
Your ad budget is separate, and it is yours. You pay Meta directly for the advertising, on your own card, and you can see every dollar of it. We never mark it up and it never touches our books. Most churches sit comfortably at $100–$200 a month — inside a tight local radius that goes a lot further than people expect.
For your treasurer: this is the line item that can fund the others. Almost everything in a church budget is pure cost — the roof, the insurance, the copier. Outreach is the one line that can give back. Run the math yourself: the Small plan plus a $100 ad budget is about $4,200 a year. If one new family joins and gives $50 a week, that returns $2,600 a year — most of the cost. A second family and the outreach isn't an expense anymore; it's an engine that funds the ministry around it, year after year, for as long as they stay. A new roof never brings in a dollar — it just stops costing you one. A new family gives every week, for years, and brings others with them. We won't promise you those families — nobody honestly can — but no other line in the budget is even built to return what it costs.
Our promise
What we will and won't do.
We will tell you if it isn't working
If the numbers are bad, you'll hear it from us before you notice it yourself — with what we're changing and why.
We won't lock you in
Month to month, always. Your ad account, your page, your data, your contacts. If you leave, you take all of it.
We won't promise conversions
Anyone guaranteeing you a number of new members is guessing. We promise reach, RSVPs, follow-up, and honest reporting.
We won't dilute your message
We're not here to make your church sound like a startup. Your voice, your theology, your invitation — amplified, not rewritten.
What we're building next
Connecting seekers to the Church down the street.
Today DivineReach drives your neighbor to your door. We're now building the layer underneath it: an AI that connects seekers — people quietly searching, hurting, or curious — to believers, churches, and small groups right in their own neighborhood.
Not a directory. Not another app to download. A quiet, respectful bridge between someone asking a real question and the nearest community that can actually walk with them.
Seeker to church
Someone searching for meaning, help, or belonging gets pointed to a real congregation near them — not a search results page.
Seeker to believer
Matched to a real person nearby who's willing to answer a question, share a meal, or simply listen.
Seeker to small group
The hardest step is the second visit. Small groups are where people stay — so we're building toward that, not just the door.
This layer is in active development and is not part of the current service. Churches on DivineReach today get first access when it opens.
Who is behind this
Not an agency learning on your budget.
The church in this case study is not a client won last year. I have run their social media for more than fifteen years — which is why these numbers cover years rather than a single campaign, and why I can tell you what didn't work as easily as what did.
That work ran alongside nine years as social media manager for a Seattle-area Christian humanitarian nonprofit, where net assets grew nearly fourfold and the organisation moved from annual deficits to consistent surpluses.
Churches aren't the only ones with this problem. I've run the same approach for Christian-owned local businesses — a salon among them — where the question is identical: how do you get in front of the neighbours who have never heard of you? Different doorway, same answer.
DivineReach is not an agency learning on your budget. It is fifteen years of doing this inside Christian organisations, packaged so another church can use it.
Why we only work with churches
We are built for the Church, and we are not shy about it.
We don't have a list of denominations we like. We have one standard, and it's the same for everyone: we work with churches, ministries, Christian-owned businesses and Christian charities that hold to historic Christian faith.
When you apply, you'll be asked to affirm it — belief in the Triune God, the deity and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, salvation by grace through faith, and the authority of Scripture. That's the whole gate. If your church can say yes to that, you're who we're for, whatever the sign outside says.
Every application is read personally before we take anyone on. We would rather turn away a church that isn't a fit than take money from one we can't serve honestly.
Apply
Let's see if we're a fit.
Tell us about your organization in the form just below. We review every application personally — our assistant replies right away, and a human follows. No payment is taken now.
Questions
The things pastors ask us first.
Do we have to sign a long contract?
No. Everything is month to month. If it isn't working for you, you tell us and it ends — we'd rather earn the next month than trap you in twelve.
Who actually pays for the ads?
You do, straight to hMeta on your own card. Our monthly fee covers the software and the management; the ad budget is separate and stays entirely under your control. We never mark it up and we never touch it — you can log in and see every dollar. If you leave, the ad account is yours and the spending stops the moment you say so.
Why is there a minimum ad budget?
Because below roughly $100 a month Meta cannot deliver an ad consistently enough to learn who responds, and you end up paying for a campaign that never gets going. The minimums are deliberately low — $100 for most churches — and a tight local radius makes that go a lot further than people expect. Most churches never need more.
How do you decide how far out to advertise?
We start from your address and how your area is actually built — a dense town needs a tighter circle than a rural county, and a five-mile default is usually about right. Then we stop guessing and start measuring. Once a month the AI reviews your campaign: which distances your RSVPs actually came from, how many times the same people are seeing the ad, and what a sign-up costs at each range. If your nearest mile is saturated — the same faces seeing you over and over — it widens the circle to find fresh people. If money is going to people too far away to realistically visit on a Sunday, it pulls the circle in. You get a short note each month saying what changed and why, in plain English. Most churches never touch the setting themselves.
How much will it cost us per visitor?
We won't quote you a number before we've seen your area, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. Costs vary enormously by how dense your neighborhood is, how competitive local advertising is, and what you're inviting people to. After month one you'll have your real number, and we'll optimize against it.
Will the texts feel automated and cold?
They shouldn't. We write them in your church's voice and keep them short and human — the kind of note a greeter would send. It's three messages, not a barrage: a thank-you when they RSVP, a reminder the day before, and a gentle follow-up a few days later if they didn't make it — with your livestream link so they can still meet you from home. Never two texts in a day. Everyone opts in when they RSVP, and anyone can reply STOP instantly.
Is automated texting even legal?
Yes, when it's done properly — which means explicit consent at signup, identifying your church in the first message, honoring opt-outs immediately, and registering your church with the mobile carriers. We handle all of that. Churches that text without it often find their messages silently blocked.
How do we justify this line in the budget?
Think of it the way a business thinks about a revenue-generating cost rather than an overhead cost. The roof and the insurance only ever cost money; outreach is the one budget line that can bring people — and their giving — back in. The Small plan plus a typical ad budget runs about $4,200 a year. One new family giving $50 a week returns $2,600 of that; two families more than cover it, and unlike the copier, they keep giving next year too. Every other expense, at its very best, stops costing you money. This one, at its best, funds the ministry around it. We can't promise those families will come — and you should distrust anyone who does — but it's the only expense in the budget designed to pay for itself.
We have more than one location. How does that work?
Each location is its own subscription, and every one after the first is 20% off. The reason it isn't free is that a second site genuinely doubles the work — a campus five miles away sits in a different neighborhood, so it needs its own radius, its own campaign, its own landing page and its own follow-up. The reason it isn't full price is that it costs us less than setting up the first. For churches each campus is priced on its own attendance rather than the combined total, so a small plant doesn't get dragged into a large tier by its parent. A business with three shops pays $250 + $200 + $200 = $650. A church with a 500-seat main campus and a 150-seat plant pays $400 + $200 = $600.
We're a business, not a church. Can we use this?
Yes. Christian-owned businesses and Christian charities are welcome, and the price is $250 a month per location — no size tiers, because a salon or a food bank can't be sized by Sunday attendance. As with churches, every location after the first is 20% off. Everything works the same way: local radius ads, a branded page people land on, automated text follow-up, your own dashboard. What changes is the ask. Instead of "come to our service" it's request a quote, book an appointment, visit the lot, walk the showroom, attend the fundraiser, volunteer. It tends to work hardest for local high-ticket trades — construction and remodeling, roofing, landscaping, auto dealerships, anything where one signed job pays for a year of advertising — and for retail and services that live or die on being known in their own town. The eligibility standard doesn't change — for a business the owner affirms the statement of faith personally, for a charity the organization does.
Is there a founding rate?
Yes, and here is exactly what it is and why. Any church that starts before October 15, 2026 pays $100 a month less than the listed rate for its size — $150 instead of $250 for churches under 250 a week, $300 instead of $400 for 250–600, $500 instead of $600 for larger churches — and that rate is locked. It stays locked for as long as you stay, however long that is. Start after that date and the listed rate applies. The minimum ad budget is the same either way, paid by you directly to Meta.
We would rather be straight about why this exists than pretend it is a sale. We are new, and a handful of churches we can point to is worth more to us right now than full price with an empty book.
What if the price is genuinely out of reach?
Write to us and tell us why. We would rather serve a church that cannot quite reach our price than turn one away over a hundred dollars a month.
Email [email protected] with your weekly attendance and what your outreach budget realistically looks like. A person reads every one of these rather than running it through a form, and we will give you a straight answer. Your ad budget stays separate and yours either way.
We're a small church. Is this worth it?
Often it matters more for a small church, because a handful of new families changes everything. That's why the smallest tier exists and why the minimum ad budget is only $100 a month.
What if we already have someone doing social media?
Then keep them. They handle your community — the posts, the photos, the people who already love you. We handle the strangers, which is a different job needing different tools. The two work well side by side.
Do we have to sit through a sales call?
No. You can be signed up and live without ever speaking to anyone. Our assistant asks the few things we genuinely need — service times, your address for the radius, what you want people to show up to — and you approve one screen before anything runs. If you'd rather talk to a person you're very welcome to, but we're not going to make it a condition of finding out whether this works.
When does billing actually start?
We take a card when you apply so nothing pauses once your ads are running, but you are not charged until the day your ads actually go live — usually the same day you apply. You are never billed for setup time. We email you about a week before each renewal, and you can cancel any time from your dashboard in one click.
How long before we can tell if this is working?
Two weeks tells you one thing: whether we can actually get your church in front of strangers. You'll see reach to people who don't follow you inside the first two weeks, and if that doesn't happen, leave.
What two weeks can't tell you is who those strangers are. Meta spends the first few weeks learning which people respond to your church specifically, and a single fortnight in one season isn't a pattern — a rainy February and the week before Easter don't behave the same way. We'd recommend giving it two to three months before you judge it, because that's the point where the numbers stop being noise and start telling you something about your own town.
We're month to month precisely so that's your call and not a contract clause.
Why do you need a card up front?
So there is no gap between approving your ads and running them. The card is not charged until your ads go live. If you change your mind before that, you are never billed by us at all.
Is the ad budget included in the monthly fee?
No, and be wary of anyone who says otherwise. The monthly fee is ours for running everything. Your ad budget — a $100 a month minimum — is paid by you directly to Meta on your own card. We never handle it and we take no percentage of it. You can raise it whenever you like and we will spend it where it is working.
What if we don't have anything good to post?
That's normal, and it's not a problem. Your dashboard has a Create a post button: answer two questions about what's coming up and the AI writes three drafts in your church's voice — service invite, event promo, a caption for a sermon clip. Pick one, edit anything, and post it straight to Facebook and Instagram or hand it to the ads. Nothing goes out in your church's name without someone on your side saying yes.
Who decides what gets promoted?
You do. Your dashboard lists your recent posts and upcoming events, and you pick. If you'd rather not think about it, the AI recommends the one most likely to travel in your area and you just approve it.
If we have a question, who answers?
An AI assistant answers instantly, around the clock — on the site, in your dashboard, and by email — and it genuinely resolves most questions: pricing, targeting, how the texts work, reading your numbers. Anything it can't handle is flagged for a real person, who reads the whole thread before replying. We're honest that we're a small team, so we don't promise a reply time we might miss on a busy week — the assistant is instant precisely so the humans can focus on the questions that need one.
How does our church know who's coming?
Three ways, and we're a little proud of this part. First, early on the morning of your service — around 5:30am — your team gets the visitor briefing by email: the names of everyone who RSVP'd and how many they're bringing, including the people who decided at 11 the night before. Second, anyone who RSVPs after that briefing triggers an instant text and email to whoever you choose — your greeter lead's phone buzzes "Late RSVP: family of 4, 10am service" while they're standing at the door. Third, you can ask your dashboard assistant "who's coming Sunday?" any time and get the live list.
It all exists for one reason: so your church can be ready to love these people well. Greet them by name, sit with them, pray with them, introduce them to a group that fits their life. The ads get a family to your parking lot; the first ten minutes inside are yours, and they decide whether that family comes back.
What if someone RSVPs but can't make it in person?
Their follow-up text includes your livestream or YouTube link, and we register the click so your dashboard shows who watched from home. It's a doorway, not a substitute — the goal is always a real seat in a real room — but someone who watched online is warm, and they're exactly who to invite personally next week.
Can you guarantee new members?
No, and be careful with anyone who does. We can put your church in front of thousands of neighbors, make it effortless to RSVP, and follow up every single time. Whether someone walks through the door and stays is between them, your church, and the Lord.
How do we cancel, and can we get a refund?
Tell us and we stop the renewal — there is nothing to sign and no exit call to sit through. Billing runs on the date you started: if your ads went live on the 10th you are charged on the 10th each month, or on the last day of the month if that date does not exist. Cancel on the 25th and your account keeps running to the 10th, because that is what you paid for.
One thing you will need to do yourself, and the timing matters: the ad budget sits on your own card at Meta, not ours, so we cannot switch it off for you. Leave it running to the end of the period you paid for — you already bought that advertising — and set it to zero on the last day. We will remind you when you cancel and walk you through it.
Refunds: if you are inside the first seven days of a brand-new subscription and it is not for you, we refund that month in full. That window is the first week after you start, once — it does not reopen each month. After it closes we do not refund the month already running; you keep the service until it ends. We would rather say that plainly here than surprise you later.
One more thing if you are on the founding rate: it is locked for as long as you stay. If you cancel and come back later, you rejoin at whatever the rate is then — the founding price does not carry across a gap.