Your church is doing real ministry.
The week around it is burying your staff.
Most churches know something is wrong. Almost none have the hours to fix it. We are the weekday team: guest follow-up, leader pipeline, volunteer capacity, giving reports, and the content nobody has time to finish. No new hires. No payroll. Nothing to learn.
“I wrote the newsletter at eleven again last night.”
“A family visited three weeks ago and nobody ever called them.”
“The same fifteen people are doing everything.”
“We found out giving was down at the budget meeting.”
None of these are a failure of care. They are a failure of hours.
Twelve minutes of questions. You get back a written assessment: what your numbers say, what we would address first, and at least one thing you can fix without us. This is not a marketing audit. We do not look at your website, your logo, or your social accounts. We look at what happens after someone shows up.
Review. Plan. Run.
You can stop after any one of them and still be better off than when you started.
Review
The 40-Point Operations Review. Twelve minutes of questions across guests, groups and leaders, volunteers, and giving. A written assessment back within two days.
Plan
A fixed-scope piece of work that answers whatever the Review surfaced. The leader pipeline, the volunteer picture, or every recurring charge you pay. You run it yourselves if you want to.
Run
We do the work the plan calls for, every week, on a schedule you can set your calendar by. Finished work in your folder. Nothing for your staff to operate.
Four problems. Four services that fix them.
Your groups have stalled and you cannot say why
You set a goal of twenty groups three years ago. You still have nine. Every year you recruit a few leaders and lose a few more.
We work out how many leaders and apprentices you actually need, including turnover, name what is blocking you now, and hand you a dated plan with owners.
The same people are carrying everything
Six ministries recruit from one pool of willing people. Nobody holds the whole picture, so the faithful get asked five times and everyone else never gets asked at all.
One picture of everyone serving across every ministry. Who is carrying too much, who has never been asked, who to approach next, and which ministry recruits in which window.
Guests visit once and do not come back
Connect cards pile up on a desk. Nobody calls. By the time anyone notices, the family has settled somewhere else.
Every first-time guest hears from your church within a day, in your voice. Monday morning you get five names worth a personal call and the reason each one is on the list.
Giving is falling and nobody knows why
Families step back quietly. Most churches find out at the fall budget meeting, months after it started, when the relationship has already gone cold.
Every month: who stopped giving, who is giving less, pledges behind plan, and who deserves a thank you. By name, to your pastor, never anywhere else.
Send one link Sunday night. By Tuesday noon you have four captioned clips, a small group guide, a midweek devotional, newsletter copy, and announcement slides. Available on its own at $495 a month.
No dashboards. Finished work, on a named day.
Five names, and why each one is on the list.
Not a dashboard to log into. Five people, with enough context that the call sounds like you already knew. Plus a quiet flag on regulars who have gone missing.
You will know before the budget meeting.
The families who stopped, the ones giving less, the pledges behind plan, and who deserves a thank you. We handle the data. You handle the relationships.
Illustrative. Names appear in your copy, never in ours.
One message. A full week of content.
Your staff does not edit, caption, schedule, or write any of it. It is in the shared folder before your Tuesday meeting.
What a normal week looks like.
Published, because you should not have to book a call to find out if you can afford us.
The core weekly and monthly work, sized for a smaller staff.
Everything above, plus full communications planning and the complete monthly scorecard.
Everything above, multi-service and multi-ministry coordination, priority turnaround.
A part-time communications coordinator runs about $2,200 a month before payroll taxes and benefits, takes three months to find, and can only do one of these jobs.
One service on its own
A full week of content from each Sunday recording, delivered Tuesday noon. Month to month, no setup fee.
$495 / moOne-time work
The deeper version of the Review, with data pulled from your own systems and a working session.
$750–1,500How many leaders and apprentices you need, what is blocking you, and a dated plan you run yourselves.
$1,500–5,000Every recurring charge you pay on one page, including what your giving platform takes, with what to cancel or renegotiate.
$1,500–2,500Written policy, screening system, training records, and a file you could produce on a day's notice.
QuotedFeasibility, donor segmentation, case statement, and campaign communications.
QuotedNo long contract. Ninety days to start, then month to month with thirty days notice. Single services are month to month from day one. Everything we build inside your systems stays yours, including if we part ways. We would rather earn the next month than hold you to a year of them.
The part we still have to earn.
We are new. We would rather tell you that than borrow someone else's testimonials, because you will ask around and you should.
If you would be one of our first churches, ask about the founding arrangement: reduced pricing in exchange for letting us publish the results once there are some.
You do not need to solve everything today.
Take twelve minutes of questions and we will send back a written read on your church, free. Or skip it and just tell us what is breaking. Both are fine, and neither commits you to anything.
We have run businesses and served in churches.
Those two worlds almost never meet. That gap is most of why this firm exists.
Churches are the most under-resourced organizations we work with, and the least willing to say so.
A pastor doing administration late at night. A volunteer coordinator who is also the worship leader. Guests who visited once and never heard back, not for lack of care but for lack of hours. We kept watching capable churches held back by capacity rather than vision, then watching them buy more software nobody had time to run.
You can hire capacity without hiring staff. That is the whole idea.
What we bring to it
Between us we have built and run companies, led consulting engagements, developed software, taught management at the university level, worked inside foundations and grantmaking, and served in local churches. That combination is unusual, and it is the reason this works.
We have founded and run businesses, met payroll, and fixed things that were not working. Not advisers who have only ever advised.
Complex systems thinking and software development. The analysis behind every report is built, tested, and repeatable, not assembled by hand each month.
Six years teaching management and project management at the university level, across every knowledge area. Resource planning across competing demands is the discipline behind The People Plan.
Foundation leadership in grantmaking and community strategy. We know how boards think, how budgets get set, and what funders actually look for.
We attend, serve, and sit in the same rooms you do. We are not learning church culture on your time.
Who you will work with
Matt Porricelli
PARTNER · OPERATIONS AND STRATEGY
Director of Community Strategy at a private family foundation, working with churches and nonprofits on funding, governance, and capacity. He has founded and run companies in distribution and publishing, and taught management and project management at the university level for six years, writing his own curriculum.
He owns the relationship with your church and the analysis behind the reporting.
Josh
PARTNER · SYSTEMS AND DELIVERY
A business owner, consultant, and software developer who works in complex systems. He has built and run companies and spent his career turning messy, human processes into things that run reliably without anyone babysitting them.
He owns how the work gets built and delivered, week after week. He also has a dog he would talk about given the chance.
How we work
No strategy decks that become your staff's homework. Work arrives finished, on a schedule, whether or not anyone chased us.
We build a voice profile from your past sermons and newsletters before we produce anything, and a person reads every word before it reaches you.
Six numbers, every month. You will know whether this is working, and so will we.
Including when it costs us the work. If you should cancel a subscription instead of hiring a firm, the report says so.
Is a computer writing our church's words?
What happens to our church's information?
Do we have to switch software?
Why not just hire someone part-time?
How much work is this for our staff?
Will it sound like us?
We are a small church. Is this out of reach?
Can we start with one piece?
What if it is not working?
Do you work with churches outside Florida?
Are you going to tell us what to preach?
Start wherever you like.
Some people want the numbers first. Some would rather just talk. Both are fine.
The 40-Point Operations Review
Twelve minutes of questions across four areas: guests and assimilation, groups and leaders, volunteers and capacity, giving and stewardship. Skip anything you do not track. That is common, and useful for us to know.
What comes back is specific to your church: which area is costing you most, a number most churches have never had time to run, and the two or three things we would address first. Some of it you can do without us, and we will say which.
This is not a marketing audit. We do not look at your website, your logo, or your social accounts. Plenty of good people do that. We look at what happens after someone shows up.
Or skip it and just talk to us
If you already know what is breaking, there is no reason to answer questions about it first. Write to us in whatever detail you feel like. We will tell you honestly whether it is something we handle and roughly what it would cost.