Church AI technology that understands ministry, built by former pastors.

Built by Pastors, for Pastors

We've Walked in Your Shoes

We know the weight of the 2 AM crisis call. The guilt of missed follow-ups. The impossible choice between sermon prep and that family who needs you. We've been there, and we built something to help.

The Breaking Point

When Ministry Became Survival

Earl had been working with churches for three decades. David was a lead pastor with a growing congregation. Both knew the same truth: modern ministry was crushing pastors. The endless calls, the administrative avalanche, the impossible expectation to be everywhere at once. Something had to change.

"I watched three of my closest pastor friends leave ministry in the same year. Not because they lost faith — because they lost themselves trying to do everything manually."

- Earl Ricker, Chairman
The Revelation

AI Could Be Different

When David saw early AI voice technology, he didn't see a replacement for pastors — he saw a lifeline. What if AI could handle the operational burden so pastors could focus on what only humans can do: genuine connection, spiritual guidance, being present? The vision for Missional Agents was born.

The Mission Begins

Building What We Needed

With Jason Collier's expertise and the pastoral experience of the founding team, we built the AI receptionist we wished we'd had. One that understood the weight of a crisis call. One that knew "I need to talk to someone" might be a life-or-death moment. One that treated every caller like they mattered because they do.

Today & Beyond

20,000+ Deployments and Growing

What started as a solution to our own burnout now runs on proven technology: 20,000+ successful production deployments across our AI platforms. Every feature is tested in real church offices, under real, daily ministry pressure. We already serve founding churches across the country. And we are just getting started.

Leadership

The Humans Behind the AI

Former pastors and technologists united by a single mission: giving ministry leaders back their time and their calling.

Founder

Earl Ricker

Chairman

Three decades working alongside churches. A faithful Christian committed to expanding the Kingdom. Witnessed the pastor burnout epidemic firsthand and acted.

Earl Ricker

Earl spent thirty years building companies alongside churches, including two decades leading a large Christian marketing firm. He watched faithful pastors burn out under administrative weight—and decided technology, guided by ministry integrity, could finally carry that burden instead.

30+

Years Alongside Churches

20+

Years Christian Marketing

3

Missional Companies

1

Mission: Growing the Kingdom

Executive

Kevin Peck

Chief Executive Officer

Co-Founder of Missional Marketing with deep roots in finance and operations. Serves his local church and now leads Missional Agents forward.

Kevin Peck

Kevin co-founded Missional Marketing and served as its CFO, working alongside more than one thousand churches nationwide. Now, as Chief Executive Officer of Missional Agents, he brings that same financial discipline and church-first heart to every decision the company makes.

1000+

Churches Served

20+

Years Serving Churches

99%

Staffing Cost Saved

100%

Church Growth

Client Success

Colette Smith

Head of Customer Relations & Marketing

Fifteen years in marketing, ten of them serving churches. Guides every client from onboarding to launch, making search, technology and AI feel simple.

Colette Smith

Colette brings fifteen years of marketing expertise and a decade of serving churches to every engagement. From onboarding through launch, she walks beside each ministry personally—teaching church teams how search, technology, and AI can multiply their reach and impact.

15+

Years in Marketing

10+

Years With Churches

100%

Clients Personally Onboarded

1:1

Support at Every Step

Product

David Thorne, Ed.D.

Chief Product Officer

15+ year pastor turned AI innovator. Published author on church technology. Believes AI should free pastors to be more human, not less.

David Thorne, Ed.D.

David pastored churches for more than fifteen years before leading AI product development. Holding a doctorate and three master's degrees, he pioneered the world's first AI workforce for churches—built on one conviction: no soul falls through the cracks.

15+

Years Pastoral Ministry

4

Advanced Degrees

26

Ministry Categories

250+

Call Scenarios

ENGINEERING

Jason Collier

Chief Technology Officer

Leads engineering at Missional Software. Senior developer of SermonSpark, helping pastors generate 22,000+ monthly sermon outlines. Holds a B.Eng. in Software from the University of Calgary.

Jason Collier

Jason leads all engineering at Missional Software. As senior developer of SermonSpark, he helped pastors generate more than 22,000 sermon outlines. A University of Calgary software engineer, he builds technology sturdy enough to carry the real weight of daily ministry.

22K+

Sermon Outlines Powered

20K+

Production Deployment Minutes

2

Rings - Max Answer Time

100%

Innovation

Every pastor deserves to focus on people, not paperwork. Every call deserves to be answered with care. Every church deserves technology that serves, not overwhelms.

We're not building AI to replace the human heart of ministry. We're building AI to protect it. To give pastors back their time, their energy, and their calling. To ensure no one falls through the cracks. To transform the operational chaos of church administration into a system that actually works, so ministry can flourish.

Our DNA

What We Stand For

Four commitments shape every decision we make. These values were not written in a boardroom; they were carried out of church offices, and they will never be negotiable.

Ministry First

Every feature we build starts with one question: Does this help pastors focus on people? If not, we don't build it.

Human-Centered AI

AI should amplify human connection, not replace it. Our technology handles operations so humans can be more present.

Sacred Trust

Churches trust us with sensitive conversations. We treat that trust as sacred with enterprise security and ethical AI practices.

Relentless Innovation

We're not satisfied with good enough. We push boundaries to give churches technology that's genuinely revolutionary.

Guiding Wisdom

Advisory Board

Industry leaders who guide our mission with decades of experience in ministry, technology, and organizational leadership.

Dr. David Fletcher

Ministry Technology Advisor

Founder of XPastor and veteran executive pastor. Decades equipping church operations leaders. Ensures our AI serves the realities of church administration.

Jim Tomberlin

Multisite Strategy Advisor

MultiSite Solutions founder and CEO, merged with The Unstuck Group in 2019. A leading national authority on multisite expansion and church mergers.

Greg Nettle

Church Planting Advisor

President of Stadia, a global church-planting organization. Led RiverTree Church for 25 years, growing it from 100 to over 3,000. Now helps plant hundreds annually.

Our Partner Leadership

The Missional Marketing leadership team whose years of serving churches nationwide shaped everything we build today.

Chuck Donnels

Chief Operating Officer
Missional Marketing

Chuck is one of the founding partners. He directs the delivery of our subscription and advertising services. He’s an expert in Google AdWords, Google Grants, and gleaning actionable insights from Google Analytics and Search Console.

Along with his extensive knowledge in setting up and tracking website conversion goals, Chuck uses cutting edge tools such as Heat Maps and Funnel Analytics to improve website performance. Chuck has a master’s degree from Stanford.

Jason Hamrock

Chief Executive Officer
Missional Marketing

Jason is a partner who guides the vision for Missional Marketing as they serve the Churches across the United States.

He's passionate about helping churches reach the "One ahead of the 99," believing the church is the world's hope for bringing people to Jesus. With 11 years as Communications Director at Central Christian Church of Arizona, he has consulted hundreds of churches nationwide. Jason joined Missional Marketing in 2015 and became CEO in July 2017.

96%

In internal testing.

936

Annual Hours Saved Per Pastor

20,000+

Successful Production Deployments

15

Team Members

Behind the Scenes

Life at Missional

We are a small team doing work that matters, spread across time zones but anchored in one mission: giving pastors their time and their calling back, every day.

Weekly Team Devotions

We start each week grounded in purpose.

Remote-First Culture

Building from wherever life takes you.

Mission-Driven Work

Every line of code serves a higher purpose.

Church Partnerships

We visit the churches we serve.

Continuous Learning

Theology meets technology education.

Celebrate Wins

Every church success is our success.

Join the Mission

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