Use the ChurchBox assistant

The Assistant tab in your church portal is an AI writing helper for your team. It drafts text and answers questions. It never publishes, posts or sends anything: you copy what you want and use it yourself.

Ask for a draft

1. Go to /manage/churches, open your church and choose the Assistant tab.
2. Under What do you need?, pick A post or announcement, An event description, Copy for a site section or A service-time update.
3. In Your request, write the facts it should use: what, when, where and who it's for. Anything you leave out comes back as a [placeholder] to fill in.
4. Select Ask the assistant.
5. Read the draft, select Copy, and paste it into New post on the Posts tab or into a section in Edit site.

A service-time update uses the service times already on your published site, so publish your new times in Edit site too.

Drafting needs a content role: owner, admin, approver or content editor. A post from a content editor still waits for an approver, as usual.

Ask how to do something

Pick How do I…? and type your question, for example "How do I schedule a site publish?". The assistant answers only from the articles in this help center and links the ones it used. If no article covers your question, it says so, and the request doesn't count against your allowance. Everyone on the church team can ask how-to questions, including finance managers and viewers.

Your monthly allowance

Each request uses one AI request from your church's monthly allowance:

| Plan | AI requests a month | | --- | --- | | Church Free | not included | | Starter | 50 | | Growth | 250 | | Pro | 1,000 | | Enterprise | set in your contract |

The tab shows how many you've used this month. When they're used up, the assistant stops until the 1st of next month. Owners, admins and finance managers can move to a higher plan from Billing. The allowance belongs to the church, so the whole team shares it.

Good to know

• Always check every time, place and name before you post. The assistant uses only the facts you give it and never invents them on purpose, but it can still make mistakes.
• Don't type anyone's private details, like health or family circumstances, into a request.
• If you or someone you're writing about may be in danger, the assistant stops and shows crisis resources instead of a draft, and our care team is told. In an emergency, call 911, or call or text 988.