If you Google “Church Management Software,” you will find tools built in Dallas, Nashville, or Sydney. They are beautiful. They feature 4K video streaming integrations, sophisticated child check-in kiosks, and donation systems that integrate with US banking standards.

They are also completely disconnected from the reality of an Indian church.

In India, our internet flickers. Our “admin team” is often one uncle with a notebook or a youth volunteer with a smartphone. Our budget is not in dollars; it’s in rupees, and every rupee is counted three times.

I’m building Sanctuary Stack because Indian churches deserve technology that actually fits them.

My Story: The Problem with $50/Month

I spent years looking for a solution for my home church. I saw plenty of options—beautiful, powerful tools built in the US or Australia. But every time I looked at the pricing page, I hit a wall.

  • Too Expensive: They started at $50/month (₹4,000) for just 100 members. For that price, we could pay a significant portion of our church caretaker’s salary.
  • Too Complex: They assumed every member had an email address and a credit card.
  • Too Disconnected: They didn’t integrate with the tools we actually use, like WhatsApp and UPI.

Then, on Sundays, I would go to my home church and watch our pastor struggle.

  • He would lose track of who visited last week because the guest book was lost.
  • He would spend hours manually forwarding WhatsApp messages.
  • The “finance report” was a stressful monthly event involving three different Excel sheets.

I asked him, “Why don’t we use software?” He showed me the pricing page of a popular US tool. It started at $50/month (₹4,000). For that price, we could pay our church caretaker’s electricity bill. It wasn’t just the price; the software felt alien. It assumed we had iPads at the door and credit cards in every pocket.

That was the moment. I realized that if I didn’t build this, no one else would. Big tech ignores this market because it’s “too chaotic” or “not profitable enough.” But the Church is not a market. It’s the bride of Christ. And it deserves tools that work.

Building in Public: No Secrets

I am starting Sanctuary Stack with just 2 churches. And I am making a promise today: I will build this in public.

Founding a startup is usually a black box. You only see the “Success Story” after 5 years. You don’t see the bugs, the failed features, or the hard decisions. I want to change that.

On this blog, I will share:

  • The Wins: When a feature actually helps a pastor save time.
  • The Losses: When I build something nobody uses (and why I had to kill it).
  • The Numbers: Honest updates on our growth and challenges.

📢 Why Transparency?

Because you are trusting us with your member data. You deserve to know exactly who is building this system and how we think. Trust is harder to build than code.

Inviting the “Founding 50”

We are not looking for 1,000 customers right now. We are looking for 50 partners. We call this the Founding 50.

These 50 churches will:

  1. Get Founding Member Pricing (locked in forever, even when prices go up).
  2. Have a direct line to me. You request a feature, and if it makes sense, I build it.
  3. Shape the future of church tech in India.

We have 48 spots left as of this morning.

If you are tired of WhatsApp chaos and Excel sheets, and you want to build this with me, let’s talk.

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