Ekklesia pricing — three levels, one platform, your rate locked for life
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You're already paying for church software. You're just paying eight companies for it.
Membership in one place, texting in another, giving somewhere else, a website nobody updates. Bought separately, the tools inside Ekklesia run about $2,200 a month. Most churches buy four or five of them and skip the rest — and the pieces they skip are the follow-up pieces. Here's what one system costs instead, at three levels.
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Your monthly rate never goes upNo contractsSetup covers the whole build
What the pieces costPer month, bought separately
Membership management$99
Church website builder$29
Email communication$99
Two-way texting$99
Surveys and forms$49
Booking and appointments$29
Automated visitor follow-up$169
Outreach automation$297
Giving management$99
Courses and digital products$99
Ministry communities$89
Reputation management$159
Tracking and analytics$299
Document signing$89
Membership mobile app$497
Total per month$2,201+
In red: the pieces most churches skip. Every one of them is a follow-up piece.
Ekklesia is one login and one bill, starting at $197 a month.
Three levels. One platform. The monthly rate you join at is the one you keep.
Every level runs on the full Ekklesia platform, joins the weekly cohort call with Dr. Vandiver, and locks its monthly rate for life. The difference is how much of the build we do for you — and how long we keep doing it.
Leap
You build it. We equip you.
For a church with someone comfortable following a video and clicking around, who wants the tools without waiting on anyone.
$197a month
$197 one-time setup. Or $1,970 a year with setup waived and two months free.
The full Ekklesia platform and every tool in it
Guest follow-up and new-member welcome automations preloaded
Connect card, prayer request and volunteer forms preloaded
Onboarding training library and knowledge base
Open office hours and the weekly cohort call
Email support, answered within 8 business hours
GivingSecureGive-ready. Bring your own SecureGive plan (about $99–$199 a month, billed by SecureGive).
Done-for-you conciergeNot included on Leap — you drive. Add it any time for $147 a month, or $1,470 a year (two months free), and our team handles up to 10 requests a month for you.
Rate locked at $197 for life. No contract; cancel from inside your account.
For a church that wants the website and the follow-up built by us, and wants to understand it well enough to run it.
$397a month
$1,997 one-time setup, which covers the entire build below. Or pay the year up front: $3,970 (two months free) and setup drops to $1,500.
Everything in Leap, plus
A seven-page church website: Home, About, Sermons, Events, Give, Connect and Contact
Branded funnels and landing pages
Your pipeline and contacts set up for you
Your guest follow-up sequence written and live
Core automations built and tested
Forty-five days of guided onboarding — six Sundays — while you take the wheel
Priority support
GivingOne year of SecureGive included with setup — online, text, mobile and kiosk giving, set up for you (up to a $2,388 value).
Done-for-you concierge, your first 6 monthsWe handle up to 10 requests a month for you while you get established. Your six months begin the day onboarding is complete. Keep it going after for $147 a month.
For a church with no one to run it, that needs the whole thing working before the pastor ever logs in.
$697a month
$4,997 one-time setup, which covers the entire build below. Or pay the year up front: $6,970 (two months free) and setup drops to $4,000.
Everything in Lift, plus
A fifteen-page site with small groups, staff, prayer, resources, media and volunteer portal pages
Connected to your ChMS (Planning Center, Elexio, Rock RMS), Zoom, Google Workspace and social
SecureGive fully integrated and configured
The full automation suite: new-member onboarding, prayer routing, event registration and reminders, volunteer recruiting and scheduling, giving acknowledgment, lapsed-member re-engagement, birthdays and milestones, small-group enrollment
A private monthly strategy call and a quarterly workflow audit
Dedicated support, around the clock
GivingTwo years of SecureGive included with setup, fully configured (up to a $4,776 value).
Lifetime done-for-you conciergeWe handle up to 10 requests a month for you, for as long as your Launch plan stays active. You never touch the tech.
Setup pays for the build. After that, the monthly rate is the only bill from us, and it never goes up. Pay the year up front on any level and you get two months free.
Which level is right for us?
"We have a member who's good with computers, and we mostly want the tools."
Start with Leap
"We want the website and the follow-up built by somebody who knows what they're doing, and we want to learn it as it's built."
That's Lift
"Nobody on our team has time to learn a new system. We need it done and running, and we need it to stay that way."
That's Launch
Not sure? Say so on the discovery call. Every level runs on the same platform, so nothing gets torn down and rebuilt if you move up later.
Dr. Terrence L. Vandiver, Sr.Founder of Ekklesia · Senior Pastor, Thankful Missionary Baptist Church
What the setup fee pays for
A setup fee is the line pastors ask about most, so here is exactly what it buys at each level. Nothing on this list is billed again.
Leap
$197
Your account provisioned and branded
Guest follow-up and new-member automations loaded
Connect card, prayer and volunteer forms loaded
Waived entirely on the yearly plan
Lift
$1,997
Seven website pages designed and written into the platform
Connect, prayer and give forms wired straight into follow-up
Your guest sequence written in your church's voice
Pipeline and contacts set up and imported
Forty-five days of guided onboarding calls
Six months of done-for-you concierge
A full year of SecureGive
$497 less when you pay the year up front
Launch
$4,997
Everything in the Lift build
Eight more pages: groups, staff, prayer, resources, media, volunteer portal and more
ChMS, Zoom, Google Workspace and social integrations connected
The full automation suite built, tested and live
SecureGive fully integrated and configured
Lifetime done-for-you concierge while your plan stays active
Two years of SecureGive
$997 less when you pay the year up front
Why charge it at all? Because a build that's free is a build that's rushed. The setup fee is what lets us take six Sundays with your church instead of sixty minutes.
No contract. Ten commitments.
A contract protects a company from a church. These protect the six Sundays. Five are ours, five are yours, and you sign them the day your seat is confirmed — not as a legal document, but so nobody has to guess what happens next.
We commit
Your Thursday call happens every Thursday.
Dr. Vandiver leads it himself for all six Sundays. Office hours stay open after you graduate.
Every question gets a human answer by the next business day.
During the build, usually the same day.
We write in your church's voice.
The first guest text, the first thank-you, the first reminder: you approve them before they go live, and everything after follows that pattern.
We don't graduate you until it works.
Follow-up fired on real guests for three Sundays, site live, two people logged in doing their piece, giving connected.
Your rate never goes up, and your data is always yours.
Leave any time and take every contact with you.
You commit
Name two people.
The one who says yes and the one who does the work. One person can be both. They're on the calls.
Send what we ask within five business days.
Logins, logos, photos, service times, staff and ministry lists, your giving details. The build moves at the speed of the content.
Someone from your church is on every Thursday call.
If nobody can make one, tell us before it, not after.
From Sunday 3, every connect card goes into the system the day it's collected.
The drawer is retired.
If something isn't working, or you've fallen behind, say so on the next call.
Month two is too late to find out about week two.
If content runs late, the calendar slides one week at a time; your seat, your rate and your place in the cohort don't change. If we miss one of ours, tell me on Thursday and it's fixed by the next one.
Enrollment is currently closed. Hold your place in line.
Enrollment is open. Seats go to the waitlist first.
Ten seats open when the founding churches graduate. The waitlist hears first — by text, in the order you joined — and the rate you see on this page is the rate you lock in.
1Join the waitlist. Your name, email and mobile number — that's it.
2When seats open, you get a text and an email with the link to apply.
3Seats go in list order. If you pass, your seat is offered to the next church.
You're on the waitlist.
When seats open, the first thing you'll get is a text from Ekklesia. Keep an eye on your phone.
Questions pastors ask about the money
Is there a contract?
No. Every level is month to month, and you cancel from inside your account without calling anyone. What you do sign is the Ten Commitments: five we make to you and five you make to us, so the six Sundays actually happen. It isn't a legal document. It's the reason nobody has to guess.
Yearly plans are paid up front. They're refundable in full until your first cohort call; after that, the year is committed.
What does "rate locked for life" mean?
The monthly price you join at is the price you keep for as long as your subscription stays active, even as the platform adds features. If you leave and come back later, you join at whatever the rate is then.
What changes if we pay for the year?
Two months free on every level. On Leap the setup fee is waived. On Lift the setup drops by $497, on Launch by $997. That's a trade, not a discount: when the year is paid up front, we aren't financing your build out of the monthly, and we pass that back. Many churches prefer it because a yearly line item is easier to take to the trustees than a monthly card charge.
Do we still pay for SecureGive?
On Leap, you bring your own SecureGive plan (about $99–$199 a month, billed by SecureGive). Lift includes the first year with setup and Launch includes the first two. After an included period ends, the SecureGive plan continues at SecureGive's standard rate, billed by them.
What's "done-for-you concierge," and what counts as a request?
Concierge is our team doing the platform work for you — up to 10 requests a month. A request is one defined task inside your existing setup: edit a page, adjust an automation, update a form, swap images or copy, build a standard email. Brand-new sites, funnels or major builds are quoted separately.
Launch includes it for the life of your plan. Lift includes six months, starting the day onboarding is complete. On Leap it's a $147-a-month add-on ($1,470 a year). Requests reset each month and don't roll over, and concierge runs while your subscription is active and current.
Are there any other fees?
The setup fee is the whole build. The monthly rate is the platform. Card processing on gifts and SecureGive's own plan are billed by SecureGive, not by us. If anything about your church's usage would change that, you'll hear it on the discovery call, not on an invoice.
Can we start on Leap and move up later?
Yes. Every level runs on the same platform, so moving up means we build more, not that anything gets rebuilt. Ask about it on your discovery call or your weekly cohort call.
Why can't I buy today if I'm ready?
Because Ekklesia was built at four churches first, and those builds are being finished before ten seats open to churches Dr. Vandiver hasn't met. When the founding churches graduate, the first open cohort starts, and the waitlist is offered the seats first. Joining the waitlist takes a minute and locks nothing but your place in line.
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