The King's Church
Lakeland, FL
Prepared by Ministry of Order for The Church Executive AI Workshop · June 4, 2026 · Orlando
In the room: Brandon Curriston (Executive Pastor) and Davontae Harrington (Pastoral Apprentice).
Where you're starting from
The King's Church is the classic Executive Pastor starting point — and that's a strength, not a gap. The highest-leverage move isn't an exotic AI tool; it's getting the weekly operating picture and the assimilation funnel solid first. Build the foundation, and everything else has something to stand on. With Davontae apprenticing, you also have a second set of hands to own one of these builds end-to-end.
Your recommended builds
1. Church Operations Intelligence — start here
One dashboard for the six numbers you check every week — attendance, giving vs. budget, volunteer fill, guest pipeline, facility load, care queue — plus an AI-written Monday narrative. No church tool fuses all six and writes the commentary. This collapses the Sunday-night scramble into a 10-minute read and gives you and the elders one shared page. → Full brief: ideas/01-church-operations-intelligence.md
2. Guest-to-Member Funnel — the number that matters most
Most churches can't say what percent of first-time guests are in a group six months later. Set up the five-stage workflow (Visit → Return → Connect → Group → Member) and watch cohort retention. Early relational connection is the best-sourced predictor of who stays — this makes the leak visible so you can fix the worst stage. → Full brief: ideas/02-guest-to-member-funnel.md
3. Volunteer Capacity Simulator — protect your core
Your most dependable volunteers burn out quietly — it shows up as no-shows months out, not complaints. This projects fill rate 90 days forward and flags teams at yellow (80%) and red (70%) so you rotate or recruit before a Sunday breaks. A good first build for Davontae to own. → Full brief: ideas/06-volunteer-capacity-simulator.md
Your 90-day path
| Quarter | Move |
|---|---|
| Q1 (0–90 days) | Stand up the Operations Intelligence dashboard with the three numbers you already have clean (attendance, giving vs. budget, volunteer fill). Ship the Monday narrative. |
| Q2 | Build the Guest-to-Member funnel workflow and first cohort chart. Have Davontae stand up the Volunteer Simulator. |
| Q3 | Add the guest and care tiles to the dashboard; act on the worst funnel stage and the first burnout flags. |
The one rule that governs all of it
From the workshop's security model: giving and care data are sensitive — aggregate before analysis, and keep individual records out of any consumer AI. Your dashboard stores weekly totals, not gift rows. Build and demo on sample data, never the real directory.
Full idea library and the other churches' packets are on the Ministry of Order briefs hub.