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The digital home your congregation deserves
Circle Plus gives you everything you need to launch and grow a thriving community for your ministry — whether you're a single church or multi-campus organization.
Faith communities on Circle:
91%
Peak monthly active user rate
60%
Average mobile monthly active users
18K
Members in largest community
14K
Total events hosted
91%
Peak monthly active user rate
60%
Average mobile monthly active users
18K
Members in largest community
14K
Total events hosted
91%
Peak monthly active user rate
60%
Average mobile monthly active users
18K
Members in largest community
14K
Total events hosted
Trusted by more than 15 million members across 20,000 communities
“For a pastor, you need someone knowledgeable and safe — someone who understands what you do, but who you can be honest with about the challenges you face. You can't always do that inside your own church. We wanted a community outside that understands ministry and can walk alongside you.”
Focus on your congregation — not juggling five different tools to keep your community connected.
Use one platform for all community needs — not a patchwork of tools
Meet your people where they are — with your own branded app that makes it easy to build positive daily habits and stay connected
Drive engagement, even as a small team, with custom AI agents that work 24/7 for you
Stay lean as your community grows
Stay lean as your community grows
Membership growth shouldn't feel punishing. Circle Plus lets you train a team of AI Agents that run 24/7 to handle the repetitive stuff — so you can focus on growing.
- Welcome new members as soon as they join
- Give members around-the-clock support with agents trained to address questions and concerns
- Build an AI knowledge resource by turning your courses and content into an agent
- Moderate posts in real time, automatically removing and flagging inappropriate content
- Prevent churn with automated engagement sequences
Put your community in your members' pockets
Put your community in your members' pockets
Boost engagement and loyalty through a custom, fully-branded mobile community app.
- Stay top of mind with your logo on homescreens, and branded push notifications
- Build authority by being discoverable on app stores
- Drive 6x more posts and 3x more comments from members, on average
- Supercharge membership growth by 147%, on average, within the first eight months of launching your app
Get a Circle expert in your corner from day one
Get a Circle expert in your corner from day one
Choosing Circle Plus means accessing a team dedicated to your setup, growth, and ongoing success.
- Ensure a smooth move to Circle with concierge migration for members, content, emails, and payments
- Access a dedicated Circle partner who's managed hundreds of launches
- Get tailored training, guidance, and service from a customer success manager
- Enjoy priority support as a Circle Plus customer
Everything your faith-focused community needs
The best of what Circle has to offer
Get the highest limits for live streams, storage, and workflows
Simplify community access for your members with custom, secure single sign-on (SSO) directly from your website
Increase revenue with in-app purchases and the lowest transaction fees across Circle plans
“We've been on Teachable for 10 years, but it was never community-friendly. What we love about Circle is that it keeps people connected — watching the videos and building relationships — all in one place.”
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Give your congregation the digital home it needs
Talk to salesFAQs about using Circle Plus for faith organizations
Despite adequate funding, our staff is small. Can we realistically run a community on Circle Plus?
Yes. In many ways, Circle Plus is designed for this reality.
First, choosing a truly-complete community platform will save you time and energy. You won't have to sink resources into making disparate tools work together.
Second, you can create and train AI Agents to handle repetitive tasks such as member onboarding, question-answering, moderation, and engagement nudges.
Third, having access to a dedicated Customer Success Manager to help architect your community correctly, from day one, ensures you're properly positioned to scale.
The goal is a community that runs itself for routine touchpoints — so your team's energy goes toward pastoral care, programming, and the things only humans can do.
We're already live across a few different tools for community, events, courses, and more. Will our members make the switch to Circle?
Some churn during any platform migration is normal, but most organizations that communicate the move clearly — and give members a reason to follow — retain the large majority of their audience.
Circle will work with you throughout the migration process, handling the lift of moving your members, content, email list, and more.
Because Circle gives your members a meaningfully better experience — discussions, events, courses, and real connection with each other — most organizations find that engagement and retention actually improve once their community is settled. If you're building something more custom — such as embedding community onto your website — our headless API and Data API give you the building blocks to do it.
What does a "branded app" actually mean for a church or faith organization?
It means your community lives in an app on the App Store and Google Play under your name, your icon, and your branding — not Circle's. Your members download your organization's app. You own the developer accounts. If you ever leave Circle, the app and all your content go with you.
For faith organizations, the branded app also signals something important to your congregation: that your ministry is investing in their digital experience — not just pointing them to another social network.
Can we use Circle Plus for coaching programs?
Yes. Ministries use Circle Plus to run year-long coaching cohorts with tiered access (Year 1, Year 2, Year 3 tracks), drip course content ahead of monthly calls, build private mastermind spaces for leaders, and create alumni spaces that stay valuable long after a program ends.
Content, communication, and the events themselves can all be run through Circle, so your coaching team can focus on the actual coaching.
How do we show board members or donors that this is worth the investment?
Circle gives you full analytics on member engagement, course completions, event attendance, and more. You can show leadership exactly what members are doing, how engagement is trending, and what your community is producing — month over month.
Many faith organizations use this data to demonstrate mission ROI at budget time, or to make the case for digital infrastructure in grant applications.
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