Opening TendWell
Preparing the care path.
Gathering the product, privacy, and workflow context for the next useful step.Product fitPrivacy boundaryNext step
40 days free. No credit card. Privacy review before real care data.
Use TendWell alongside Planning Center
Planning Center is built for broad church management. TendWell sits beside it as a focused pastoral-care workspace for prayer, visits, visitors, private context, assignments, and weekly follow-through.
Keep Planning CenterAdd care rhythmNo replacement pitch
1Sunday capture2Weekday care3Leadership review
Best fit
- Planning Center already helps the church with people, services, giving, registrations, check-ins, or forms.
- Pastoral-care follow-up still lives in memory, staff messages, meeting notes, or scattered custom fields.
- Leaders need a smaller weekly workspace for who needs attention now.
Keep using
- Planning Center People, Services, Giving, Groups, Registrations, or Check-Ins
- Existing forms and ministry administration
- Broad congregational communication
- The member database your staff already knows
TendWell adds
- A focused weekly care review
- Care notes and prayer review in the same pastoral story
- Visitor follow-up and care tasks surfaced in one queue
- Reports for elders, deacons, staff, or care teams
The question is not which system wins.
The better question is which job each system should do, and whether active pastoral care needs a dedicated weekly rhythm.
Decision area
Broad church system
TendWell
Positioning
A broad church management platform for many ministry operations.
A focused workspace for active pastoral care.
Pastoral follow-up
Can be supported through people records, forms, lists, or workflows.
Central purpose of the product.
Private care context
May depend on how the church configures notes, forms, and permissions.
Kept close to prayer, care notes, and reporting boundaries.
Trial approach
No change needed before testing TendWell.
Start with a small active-care list and compare the weekly rhythm.
Start small
Do not migrate the whole church first. Use one active care list.
Protect context
Public prayer wording and private pastoral context should remain distinct.
Review weekly
The test is whether the next faithful action is easier to see after one church week.
Trial-ready in one church week
Keep Planning Center. Test TendWell for care follow-through.
TendWell is not asking your church to switch systems. It is asking whether active care deserves a focused weekly workspace.
40-day no-card trialSunday captureMonday review