OpusHeart

Software for churches has quietly become a rent collection business. Member records, giving history, the website, the sermon archive: each lives in a different subscription, priced per head, owned by nobody in the building. OpusHeart puts the whole operation in one system the organization actually holds. Members and households, events and volunteers, groups, giving, a prayer wall, sermons with a podcast feed, and the public website, all on infrastructure the church controls.

It is built on a conviction: a congregation’s data belongs to the congregation, and small organizations deserve software built as carefully as anything sold to a bank. So the details are treated that way. Pastoral care notes are encrypted at the field level. Roles and terminology adapt to how a church actually speaks. The page builder gives a volunteer webmaster a real website without hiring a second vendor.

Connect, the opt-in federation layer, is where it is headed: independent congregations linking their instances to share prayer and coordinate emergency aid across organizational lines, every instance sovereign over its own records. The license is PolyForm Noncommercial: churches, charities, schools, and community organizations run it free, and 137 & Co. offers managed hosting for the ones who would rather never touch a server.