ChurchSuite MCP server

Read ChurchSuite contacts, children, small groups, rotas, events and attendance; add contact notes. Hosted by usefulapi: connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.

Connect ChurchSuite50 free tool calls a month

What can I ask?

Turn on the ChurchSuite connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.

Which small groups meet on Wednesdays, and where and when?
Who serves in our welcome team ministry?
How many people attended our services over the last month?
Add a note to Jane Smith's record: visited her at home today.

What you can do with ChurchSuite in Claude and ChatGPT

For church administrators and pastoral teams who use ChurchSuite.

Find small groups, their times and members

The AI lists small groups with day, time and place, and the members of a group, with their names looked up from contacts or children.

See who serves in a rota ministry

The AI lists the ministries of the Rotas module, and the people who serve in them, with names looked up from contacts or children.

Report attendance over a period

The AI reads headcounts per gathering and date for a date window and sums up the trend.

Look up upcoming events and service plans

The AI lists calendar events in a date window, service plans and the running order of a plan.

Find a contact and read or add a note

The AI finds an address book contact, reads their pastoral notes, and adds a new note to the record.

Changes data

How do I connect ChurchSuite?

Before you connect

The login page asks for your Client ID and Client secret.

A ChurchSuite administrator enables API access on a user profile (Account Settings → Users; a dedicated user for this integration is best). That API user then generates a client secret and copies its client ID. The user's ChurchSuite permissions decide which modules this server can see, so grant only what you need. API access may depend on your ChurchSuite plan. Your credentials are used only to call the ChurchSuite API on your behalf; your account is identified by your church's ChurchSuite account id.

Claude claude.ai · Desktop

Open Customize → Connectors, then click + Add → Add custom connector.
Enter the name ChurchSuite and this URL, then click Add:
https://churchsuite.usefulapi.io/mcp
Claude opens the login page: enter your Client ID and Client secret.
In a chat, click + → Connectors and turn on ChurchSuite.

Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.

ChatGPT chatgpt.com

Open Plugins, click +, then Add custom MCP server.
Enter the name ChurchSuite and this URL, choose OAuth as the authentication, confirm the warning and create it:
https://churchsuite.usefulapi.io/mcp
ChatGPT opens the login page: enter your Client ID and Client secret.
In Plugins, install ChurchSuite, then choose it in a chat.

No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.

Claude Code

Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:

claude mcp add --transport http churchsuite https://churchsuite.usefulapi.io/mcp

Cursor

Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "churchsuite": {
      "url": "https://churchsuite.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "churchsuite": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://churchsuite.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Codex

Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:

codex mcp add churchsuite --url https://churchsuite.usefulapi.io/mcp

codex mcp login churchsuite

Other clients

Windsurf, Cline, Zed and other MCP clients: add this URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser.

https://churchsuite.usefulapi.io/mcp

Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Client ID and Client secret. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.

Pricing

Plan	Price	Limit
Free	$0	50 tool calls / month
Proper church account	$9/mo · $90/yr	10,000 tool calls / month
Pro+per church account	$39/mo · $390/yr	100,000 tool calls / month

Each paid plan covers this ChurchSuite server only. Ask your AI to run churchsuite_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. The change requires your confirmation, keeps your billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. Cancel any time with churchsuite_cancel_subscription: your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and asking to resume the same plan with churchsuite_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to support@usefulapi.io.

Tools 29

Show all 29 tools (the AI picks them for you)

Read only · 24

Get church accountchurchsuite_get_account
The church's ChurchSuite account summary: name, unique id, subdomain, time zone, currency, language and first day of week (no billing or data-protection contact details). A good first call.
List siteschurchsuite_list_sites
List the church's sites (campuses/congregations: id, name, initials, address). Site ids filter contacts, children, groups, events and plans.
List address book contactschurchsuite_list_contacts
Search or list adult contacts in the Address Book (name, contact details, address, sites, status, tags via tag_ids). Personal data: ask only for what you need.
Get a contactchurchsuite_get_contact
Get one Address Book contact by id: names, sex, date of birth, marital status and spouse id, address, phones, email, job, custom fields, communication preferences, sites, status.
List contact noteschurchsuite_list_contact_notes
List the pastoral/admin notes on a contact (content, pinned, visibility, who wrote it and when), pinned first.
List address book tagschurchsuite_list_contact_tags
List Address Book tags (id, name, category, whether it is a smart tag). Use a tag id as tag_ids in list_contacts to list the people with that tag.
List childrenchurchsuite_list_children
Search or list children in the Children module (name, date of birth, school year, contact details, sites, status, consent flags). Medical and additional-needs fields are left out unless include_medical is true.
Get a childchurchsuite_get_child
Get one child by id (names, date of birth, school, contact details, custom fields, consents, sites, status). Medical and additional-needs fields only with include_medical: true.
List children's groupschurchsuite_list_children_groups
List the Children module's groups (classes/age groups: id, name, entry age, check-in capacity and ratio, status).
List small groupschurchsuite_list_small_groups
List small groups (home groups/life groups: name, day, time, frequency, location, description, dates, sign-up options).
Get a small groupchurchsuite_get_small_group
Get one small group by id (schedule, location, description, custom fields, sign-up options, sites).
List small group memberschurchsuite_list_small_group_members
List small group memberships (group id, person = contact or child id, status, role ids, joined date). Filter by group to get a group's members, or by contact/child to get a person's groups; look people up with get_contact / get_child.
List calendar eventschurchsuite_list_events
List calendar events (name, start/end, status, category, location, description, sign-up options, sites). Use starts_after/starts_before (YYYY-MM-DD) for a date window.
Get a calendar eventchurchsuite_get_event
Get one calendar event by id (times, status, category, location, description, visibility, sign-up options).
List event categorieschurchsuite_list_event_categories
List calendar categories (id, name, colour, status). Use the ids as category_ids in list_events.
List rota ministrieschurchsuite_list_ministries
List the Rotas module's ministries (worship team, welcome team…: id, name, description, days, rota and rotation type, status, sites).
List ministry teamschurchsuite_list_ministry_teams
List the teams inside rota ministries (id, ministry id, name, order).
List ministry memberschurchsuite_list_ministry_members
List who serves in rota ministries (ministry id, team id, person = contact or child id, role ids). Look people up with get_contact / get_child.
List rota unavailabilitychurchsuite_list_unavailability
List the dates people said they are unavailable to serve (person, description, start/end). Filter by person, ministry or a date window.
List service planschurchsuite_list_service_plans
List service plans from the Planning module (name, date, time, status, linked event, sites).
List service plan itemschurchsuite_list_plan_items
List the running order of one or more service plans (items: type, name, song arrangement, duration, start time, notes, people).
List giving fundschurchsuite_list_giving_funds
List the church's giving funds (id, name, description, Gift Aid / tax-deductible flags, whether shown in Donate, status). Funds only: no donors, donations or amounts.
List attendance gatheringschurchsuite_list_gatherings
List the Attendance module's gatherings (services/meetings whose attendance is counted: id, name, sites, status).
List attendance recordschurchsuite_list_attendance_records
List attendance records (headcounts per gathering and date: total number, total people, notes), sorted by date. Filter by gathering, weekday or a date window (YYYY-MM-DD).

Changes data · 1

Add a note to a contactchurchsuite_add_contact_note
WRITE: add a new note to a contact's record in ChurchSuite (it is visible to other ChurchSuite users who can see the contact, unless private_to_me is true). Only adds a note: never edits or deletes anything, sends nothing to the contact.

Your usefulapi plan · 4

Usage status (free-tier meter)churchsuite_usage_status
Report the caller's current usage: the plan, calls used this month, the limit of the plan (the free monthly cap or the Pro fair use limit), remaining, and whether the limit is reached. Read-only; does not count against the meter.
Request a missing featurechurchsuite_request_feature
Tell usefulapi that the user needs something the ChurchSuite tools cannot do yet (a missing tool, field or filter). Call it only when the user asks for something none of the tools can do, and tell the user that you send the request. Do not call it for errors or for normal requests. Do not include personal data, credentials or customer records. Stored with the product name and the client type (for example Claude or Cursor), without the user's account. At most 5 requests per day. Does not count against the meter.
Upgrade to Pro or Pro+churchsuite_upgrade
Get a paid plan for ChurchSuite (the free tier caps monthly usage). Pro: 10,000 tool calls a month, for normal use — plan "monthly" ($9/month) or "yearly" ($90/year, 2 months free). Pro+: 100,000 tool calls a month, for automations and heavy use — plan "plus" ($39/month) or "plus_yearly" ($390/year). Without a plan it returns both Pro and Pro+, each with a payment link, for the user to choose; with a plan, one link. An existing Pro subscription changes to Pro+ in place: call without confirm first, as the reply states the exact charge for this account (the price difference for the rest of the period, or in a free Pro trial the full Pro+ price, as the trial ends); then call with confirm: true. Cancel any time: the plan then runs to the end of the paid period, so it also suits a one-time job. A link opens Stripe Checkout in the browser; after payment the account upgrades automatically. Does not count against the meter.
Cancel the Pro subscriptionchurchsuite_cancel_subscription
Cancel the caller's ChurchSuite Pro subscription at the end of the paid period (no refund for the current period; Pro continues until then, then the free tier applies). Requires confirm: true. Run churchsuite_upgrade later to undo the cancel before the period ends. Does not count against the meter.

FAQ

What can I do with ChurchSuite in Claude or ChatGPT?

Find small groups, their times and members. See who serves in a rota ministry. Report attendance over a period. Look up upcoming events and service plans. Find a contact and read or add a note. See what you can do for the details.

Is this an official ChurchSuite product?

No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by ChurchSuite. The server calls the ChurchSuite API with your own ChurchSuite access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.

Can I connect ChurchSuite to Claude or ChatGPT?

Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.

What do I need to connect?

The login page asks for your Client ID and Client secret. See Before you connect for where to find them.

Do I put my ChurchSuite key or an Authorization header in the client config?

No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Client ID and Client secret. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.

How do you keep my ChurchSuite credentials?

The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the ChurchSuite API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in ChurchSuite.

Can the AI change my ChurchSuite data?

Yes, if you approve it. 1 of the 25 ChurchSuite tools can create or change data. The other 24 are marked read-only. Most MCP clients ask you to approve a tool call before it runs.

What does it cost?

The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with 10,000 tool calls / month. Pro+ costs $39/mo or $390/yr, with 100,000 tool calls / month. Each subscription covers this ChurchSuite server only. Cancel any time: your paid plan then runs to the end of the paid period. Run churchsuite_usage_status to see how many calls you used.

How do I subscribe or cancel?

Ask the AI to run churchsuite_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. After you confirm, your existing subscription changes in place, keeps its billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. To cancel, run churchsuite_cancel_subscription. Your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period.

What if a ChurchSuite tool that I need is missing?

Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with churchsuite_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.

Which AI clients can I use?

Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.

This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.

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