Ministry doesn’t end
at the amen.
Somewhere out past the camera, real people are worshiping with you — and today you can’t see a single one of them. PealCast exists to change that: to turn the anonymous crowd watching from home into named people your church can welcome, notify, and care for. Here’s why that matters.
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The crowd you can’t see
A crowd you can’t see is a crowd you can’t shepherd.
On other streaming services — free platforms and paid alike — your online congregation is an anonymous crowd — you can’t greet them, thank them, or follow up. A light “who’s watching” welcome changes that in one tap.
Free or paid, a “view” is just a device. Someone hits play during worship, is moved, and closes the tab — and you never learn they were there, never know they came back, never get the chance to say hello. The crowd stays anonymous, and the moment passes.
That same viewer connects through a warm, church-native welcome and becomes a named person with a real, verified phone number in your church’s own list. Now the moment right after “amen” can become a conversation — a welcome, a prayer, a next step.
Two in three church leaders say their online platforms are better at opening the front door than at discipling anyone once they’re inside — and fewer than one in four are building a way to close that gap.
That gap has a face. Every week without follow-up is a first-time watcher you’ll never get to greet, and a regular who quietly slipped away before anyone noticed.
You already do this
You already reach out like this — everywhere but online.
Think about everything your church already invests in just to meet new people. Every one of these exists to do a single thing: meet a person, and start a relationship.
Facebook & community ads
You pay to put your church in front of new people — hoping one of them shows up.
Easter & Christmas services
Months of planning to fill the room with faces you’ve never met before.
Invite cards & door hangers
Something to hand a neighbor so a first conversation has somewhere to go.
Community outreach & events
You show up, serve, and meet people right where they already are.
“Every one of those gets someone through the door once. The ministry is what happens next — the welcome, the follow-up, the second conversation. Your live stream is the one front door where, right now, you never even learn who walked in.”
Online attendance, finally
This is attendance for your live stream.
On Sunday morning you count the room — you know who came, who’s new, and whose seat sat empty. Online, you’ve had a view count: a number, not names. PealCast is the attendance sheet for your online service.
| In the room | Online, until now | Online, with PealCast | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who came? | Faces in the pews — you know most of them by name. | A peak-viewer number. A device, not a person. | Named watchers, each with a real, verified number. |
| Who’s new? | The visitor at the welcome table, the card in the basket. | No idea — a first-timer looks identical to a regular. | The New Faces list, ready to welcome on Monday. |
| Who’s gone quiet? | You notice the empty seat where the Johnsons used to sit. | Nothing — people drift away completely unseen. | The Missed You list, before they’re gone for good. |
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What lands in your inbox
One short email every week. Two simple lists.
This is the whole promise, made concrete. Every week PealCast hands your team the Shepherd’s Report: the new faces to welcome and the regulars you’ve missed — each one a name with a real number, ready to reach.
- New Faces — someone watched for the first time. Say hello before the moment passes.
- Missed You — a regular hasn’t watched in a few weeks. A two-line text is all it takes.
The Shepherd’s Report
Week of this Sunday · for the Connections Team
- Maria Gonzalez(312) •••-4471 · watched 38 min
- The Bennett familynew to us · watched 52 min
- Darnell Price(708) •••-9920 · watched all 61 min
- Tom & Linda Alvarezlast watched 3 wks ago · was ~weekly
- Grace Okaforlast watched 4 wks ago
The people watching from home are just as present.
They sang the same songs and heard the same word. They deserve to be welcomed and remembered — not counted once and quietly forgotten.
Ring the bell
A gentle nudge brings people back.
People forget. They travel, they get busy, a Sunday slips by. A passive feed just sits there hoping to be found. The moment you go live, PealCast sends every member a simple “we’re live now — watch” by text, email, or push.
It’s the same reason a reminder text fills a room: a text is read about 98% of the time, most within minutes — so you reach your own people directly, instead of competing with an algorithm to be noticed. The invitation lands the second the service begins, while there’s still time to join.
Text open-rate: industry SMS benchmarks (Kenect, ChurchTrac).
- Email, plus a text & Church Center push via Planning Center
- One tap to watch — nothing for members to install
- Reaches people the algorithm never would
Sunday service is live now — come worship with us. Tap to watch →
The whole point
One verified number, a dozen ways to care.
Once you know who’s watching — with a real number you can actually reach — every kind of shepherding opens back up. This is why the welcome matters: identity becomes care, not just a statistic.
Welcome the new
A real hello to the first-time watcher while the moment is still warm.
Check on the drifting
A gentle “we’ve missed you” to a regular who’s quietly gone quiet.
Invite to a small group
Turn a screen on Sunday into a seat in a circle on Wednesday.
Share the prayer line
Point someone carrying a burden to a place to be prayed for by name.
Follow up on a decision
Walk alongside the person who responded — not just count the response.
Send an encouragement
A midweek word of care to the people worshiping with you from home.
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Not “get off social”
Keep posting the clips. Just don’t give the whole service away.
PealCast isn’t “stop posting publicly.” Keep sharing the shorts, reels, and sermon moments — those little clips are your invitation, the thing that makes a stranger curious enough to come. What you stop doing is handing your entire live service to a rented, anonymous feed. Short public clips lead people home to your owned, notified stream.
A short public clip
Reels, shorts, sermon moments — under ~5 min
Someone gets curious
The invitation does its job
Your PealCast live stream
The full service, on your own watch page
A named person to welcome
Not an anonymous, drifting view
Built to be trusted with your church’s people.
The people who watch aren’t data to us — they’re your congregation. We treat their information the way a church should.
Verified, opt-in numbers
Every contact is a real mobile the person opted in to — never scraped, never bought.
Your flock stays yours
Your congregation’s data belongs to your church. Export it anytime; leave and it goes with you.
Consent-first messaging
TCPA/10DLC compliant with a clear opt-out on every message — the way churches should text.
Secure Planning Center sync
Encrypted connections and a signed DPA for every system we sync to your ChMS.
The online-church gap
Nearly every church streams. A quarter of the country watches.
And on YouTube or Facebook, the church never learns who any of them are. That anonymous, drifting crowd is exactly what PealCast turns into named people you can welcome and reach.
- 75%
- of U.S. congregations now stream their services — up from 45% before 2020.
- Hartford Institute, 2023
- ~1 in 4
- U.S. adults watch worship online or on TV in a typical month.
- Pew Research Center, 2023
- Just 25%
- of online viewers feel like they’re actually taking part — about half watch alone.
- Pew Research Center, 2023
- ~40M
- U.S. adults have quietly stopped attending church — the largest religious shift in U.S. history.
- The Great Dechurching, 2023
Before you decide
The questions churches ask us first.
Know who’s worshiping with you — and never lose track of them again.
The people watching from home are just as present as the ones in the pews. They deserve to be welcomed, remembered, and reached. That’s the entire reason PealCast exists.
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