Internal tooling for church staff
The threshold where church work gets organized.
Meetings, approvals, and recurring events — sitting on top of Google Workspace and Planning Center, not replacing them.
Good morning, Jim
Friday, June 26 · 4 tasks overdue
Overdue
4 needs attention
Awaiting your review
4 requests pending
Meetings this week
2 Michael called 3 more today
My tasks
9Overdue
- Overdue by 6 days
Recruit 8 more VBS volunteers
VBS 2026 — Threat Level Midnight
- Overdue by 4 days
Review VBS volunteer background checks (Creed's got flagged)
VBS 2026 — Threat Level Midnight
- Overdue by 2 days
Finalize baptism candidate list with Pastor Michael
Baptism Sunday — July
- Overdue by 1 day
Order VBS backdrop and stage props
VBS 2026 — Threat Level Midnight
Up next
- Due in 2 days
Follow up with 3 new families from last Sunday
- Due in 3 days
Send weekly ministry update email — cut Michael's 'joke of the week'
- Due in 3 days
Send parking closure notice to congregation
Parking Lot Resurfacing
- Due in 3 days
Meet with Metro Paving rep — confirm July 7 start
Parking Lot Resurfacing
- Due in 4 days
Draft fall sermon series outline — Michael wants it 'edgy'
Accountability 3
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Active projects
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Jul 7, 2026
activeDPJHBaptism Sunday — July
Jul 13, 2026
activeJHPB+1VBS 2026 — Threat Level Midnight
Jul 21, 2026
activePBAMDundie Awards Night
Aug 24, 2026
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Why Narthx exists
Meetings produce action items that disappear into inboxes. Approvals route through whoever happens to know the process. Recurring events get reinvented every year. Narthx fixes this.
Church operations run on tribal knowledge.
Staff tools should make the invisible visible — who owes what, what was decided, and what happens next. Narthx surfaces all three.
Meetings
Action items that actually land
Agenda building, in-meeting flow, and post-meeting recap emails — so decisions and tasks don't evaporate.
Requests
Approvals without the inbox thread
Configurable forms for facility use, communications, purchases, and more — routed to the right person automatically.
Projects
Recurring events, not reinvented
Templates for Easter, VBS, soccer camp — with relative task dates so everything shifts when the event date does.
Foundation
Built for more than one church
Multi-tenant from day one. Every query, every token, every credential is scoped per church — from the database up.
Integrates, doesn't replace
Sits on top of the tools you already use.
Narthx orchestrates work across your existing stack. PCO is still the system of record for people. Drive is still the file system. Calendar stays the calendar.
Google Workspace
Two-way Calendar sync. Drive for documents. Gmail for transactional email. Staff sign in with their existing Workspace accounts.
Planning Center
Sync staff and volunteer rosters from PCO. Assign tasks by PCO person. PCO stays the source of truth for people data.
Every approval decision, meeting recap, and task assignment triggers a clean email from noreply@narthx.io. No Slack required.
Donations
Narthx explicitly does not touch giving or donations. That stays in PCO Giving or whatever your church already uses.
Why we named it Narthx.
The narthex was always the practical, preparatory space — the threshold you pass through on the way in. That's exactly what this is for staff: the workspace at the entrance to everything your church does, where the meetings, approvals, and planning get organized before they become ministry.
Say it “NAR-thex.” We dropped the final “e” so the name — and the domain — could be ours.
About the name
The entrance hall of a church — the threshold space between the outside world and the sanctuary, where people gather, prepare, and get ready before worship.
Status
In active use at one church.
Narthx is a real internal tool, not a public product. Access is by invitation. If your church is interested in trying it, reach out.
Passion Creek Church — where Narthx is in active use