> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.thefaithapp.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# AI Assistance

> Use source-grounded member answers, review-only staff drafts, and safer sermon tools without replacing pastoral judgment.

AI Assistance helps members find published church information and helps staff
prepare work for human review. It does not act as a pastor, send messages,
publish content, merge members, or assign volunteers on its own.

## Ask Your Church In The Member App

Members can open **Connect** and select **Ask your church** to ask about service
times, campuses, parking, Events, kids ministry, Community Groups, sermons,
bulletins, and devotionals.

The answer is built from published information for the signed-in member's
church. Source chips under an answer show the church content used. When a
question cannot be verified from those sources, the assistant says so instead
of guessing.

An answer may offer a shortcut to Events, Sermons, Groups, Prayer, or Pastoral
Care. These shortcuts open the existing member experience; the assistant does
not register, submit, book, message, or change anything.

### Pastoral And Urgent Needs

The assistant is not a counselor, clinician, emergency service, or spiritual
authority. Questions that need personal pastoral judgment are redirected to a
person through Prayer or Pastoral Care. Someone in immediate danger should use
local emergency help rather than wait for an AI reply.

Member questions and answers are not kept as a server-side chat history. A
member can still see the current answer on the open screen until they leave it.

## Use AI Chat As A Staff Copilot

Open **Church Management**, then **AI Chat**. Staff can use a suggested prompt
or ask in natural language to:

* Draft visitor follow-up or Volunteer encouragement messages.
* Summarize care history that the signed-in leader is already allowed to see.
* Suggest next-step pathways or Community Groups from current church records.
* Find members, Events, resources, visitors, Groups, duplicate candidates, or
  Volunteer schedule gaps.
* Draft Event descriptions, announcement copy, weekly engagement summaries,
  and ministry reports.

AI Chat keeps the permissions of each source workspace. Access to AI Chat does
not grant access to Members, Pastoral Care, Visitors, Groups, or Volunteer data
that the staff member could not otherwise open.

All generated messages and operational suggestions are drafts. Review them
before use. Sending, publishing, scheduling, merging, and assigning remain
deliberate actions in their normal product screens.

## Review Sermon Assistance

Sermon AI works from a reviewed transcript. It can prepare summaries,
discussion questions, small-group guides, social captions, newsletter
summaries, short devotionals, key quotes, scripture lists, and clip
suggestions.

While reviewing a transcript, select **Suggest cleanup** to see conservative
wording suggestions and uncertain passages. Applying a suggestion only updates
the open editor. A staff member must still review and save the transcript; the
assistant never overwrites it automatically.

Generated sermon content should remain faithful to the reviewed transcript.
Review every quotation, scripture reference, and factual claim before sharing
or publishing it.

## Availability

AI Assistance uses the existing **Digital Ministry Assistant** add-on and its
included usage allowance. A billing or reply-limit message appears when the
church cannot use another AI reply. Existing published sermon content remains
available to members even when staff generation is unavailable.

Members with an active or lapsed sponsorship can ask the assistant to
translate, lightly polish, or do both for a sponsor letter. The assistant sees
only the draft and language request—not the beneficiary's private identity,
guardian details, or safeguarding record. It returns an unsaved draft. The
member reviews and edits it, then submits it separately through the ordinary
encrypted moderation workflow.