More capacity for your mission.
A practical three-hour workshop that gives your team useful AI skills, shared guardrails, and the confidence to put them to work.
Three hours · No AI experience required
“A handful of my team walked in unsure about AI, even a bit resistant, and walked out actually using AI tools on real work.”
Your team is already using AI. Is everyone using it the same way?
Staff may be trying AI for emails, meeting notes, or event planning. Without shared skills and clear decisions, each person decides alone what is appropriate, what stays private, and what gets checked. Novetera helps you turn those individual experiments into a shared, responsible way of working.
Inconsistent quality
Everyone prompts differently and checks results differently, so good experiments stay with one person.
Quiet privacy risk
Donor records, prayer requests, and pastoral notes can end up in tools no one has approved.
Time never comes back
Hesitant staff avoid useful tools, and the hours AI could return to ministry stay locked up in admin.
AI Foundations for Ministry
Three hours · No AI experience required
A practical workshop for leaders and teams across churches, Christian nonprofits, and charities. Understand AI, try useful applications, and exercise sound judgement about where it belongs in your work.
Your team leaves with
- A plain-language understanding of what AI can do and where it falls short.
- Practice giving clear instructions and checking results.
- Confidence around privacy, authorship, and responsible use.
- One useful application to try, with a clear next step.
“I came in already convinced there was something in AI that we needed. What I didn't have was the how. Chris and Aidan gave us that in one workshop.”
“As someone who is more tech comfortable, this was an amazing way to invite the entire team into this journey in a way that is opening the door to greater effectiveness.”
“This has opened up a bunch of possibilities in my thinking for meaningful AI use.”
“This workshop is a great primer for churches looking to incorporate AI into their work flows. Because of their knowledge of both the technology and church needs, they are able to meet specific needs with significant insight.”
“This workshop helps with learning how to responsibly use AI and potential risks.”
“While some of the aspects of the implications of AI are truly unsettling, it was super helpful to have a safe space to learn, ask questions, and wrestle with how we can wisely utilize AI to impact the world with Jesus’ love.”
“I have lots more questions… but I’m super thankful to have begun the conversation and expand my thinking.”
Practical support from learning to implementation.
AI Foundations
Practical team training that develops shared skills, useful applications, and responsible habits.
Best for: teams starting out or experimenting on their own.
AI Strategy & Governance
Identify worthwhile opportunities and work through decisions about approved tools, confidential information, human review, and authorship.
Best for: leadership teams and boards setting direction.
AI Partnership
Ongoing support alongside your leaders and staff to apply what they are learning, improve everyday workflows, and keep making progress.
Best for: organizations ready to put AI into daily work.
Start with the service that fits your situation. A workshop is not a prerequisite.
Give your team a shared approach to AI.
Work through five practical decisions about AI with your leadership team. Get realistic scenarios, discussion questions, and space to agree on what your organization will do next.
Five AI Decisions Every Leadership Team Needs to Make
Nine pages. Five decisions. One focused leadership meeting.
See what's inside the guide →Ministry leaders who can also build.
Combined experience leading organizations that carry a mission, manage resources, and serve people, with the technical capability to build what works.
Chris Vacher
Founder, Clearway Church Solutions
MA Leadership
More than 20 years in local church ministry
Nova et vetera
Latin for “new and old.” New tools, same mission.
More capacity starts here.
Tell us about your team.
Share where your team is with AI and what you'd like to accomplish. We'll discuss the workshop and arrange the details.
Experience the workshop.
Learn together through live demonstrations, guided practice, and discussion. Try useful applications responsibly.
Build more capacity.
Put what you've learned to work in everyday tasks, making more room for the people and priorities at the heart of your mission.
Give your team a practical starting point with AI.
Tell us about your church, Christian nonprofit, or charity. We'll send you workshop details and discuss how AI Foundations for Ministry could serve your team.
More questions? Email hello@novetera.co