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Pastoral care, built on Planning Center
Go after the one who’s wandered off.
Astray quietly notices when someone has drifted — stopped showing up, serving, or giving — and hands your care team a simple task to reach out, before they slip away for good.
A workflow, not a dashboard · No full database syncing · Multi-campus
Care task
Reach out to the Okafor family
Hasn’t attended in 5 weeks — previously every Sunday.
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People rarely leave with a goodbye.
They miss a Sunday. Then two. A serving rhythm fades. Giving quietly stops. No one files a ticket or makes a call — and by the time someone notices the empty seat, months have passed.
In a busy church, noticing is the hard part. Staff are stretched, memories are short, and the people who drift are the ones least likely to raise their hand. The wandering is silent by nature — so the noticing has to be automatic.
How it works
It does the watching, so you can do the reaching out.
Astray notices the drift
It watches for the patterns that matter — a regular attender gone quiet, a volunteer who stopped serving — automatically, week after week.
You get a care task
A clear, personal task lands with the right person on your team: who to reach out to, and why now. Follow up, log it, done.
Why Astray
A workflow, not a mirror.
Dashboard tools
Hand you charts and reports, then wait for someone to go looking, ask the right question, and notice the trend before it’s too late.
- You operate the tool
- Insight requires digging
- The drift is found only if you look
Astray
Does the noticing for you and puts a concrete, pastoral task in front of the right person — so the work is reaching out, not reporting.
- The tool works alongside you
- The next step comes to you
- No one drifts unnoticed
About Astray
Built for the quiet kind of leaving.
I’m Paul, a software engineer by day and a worship leader on Sundays. For a long time, those two parts of my life ran in parallel — one paid the bills, the other fed something deeper.
Then my own church came to me with a problem, not knowing I could actually solve it. They needed a way to know when someone had quietly stopped showing up. Not the people who leave loudly — the quiet ones. The person who used to serve on a team, then didn’t. The family that used to be in a group, then wasn’t.
Nobody decides to disappear. Most of the time they just drift — a week becomes a month, a month becomes “I wonder whatever happened to them.”
By the time anyone notices, it’s often too late for a simple conversation to matter. So I built them a solution. What started as a favor for the church I love turned into Astray — because it turned out this wasn’t just our problem. It was every church’s problem.
Astray watches for the quiet kind of leaving, not the dramatic kind, and makes sure someone knows to reach out before the silence becomes permanent. It’s grown since that first conversation — but the heart of it hasn’t changed: Astray exists so that no one has to disappear from a community that would have gone looking for them, if only someone had known to look.
PaulFounder, Astray
Built on trust
For your church, not just your data.
Astray doesn’t keep a shadow copy of your congregation. It checks only the signals it needs to spot drift, stores as little personal information as possible, and leaves your records exactly where they belong — in Planning Center.
No full database syncing
We poll only what’s needed to compute drift — never a mirrored copy of everyone’s record.
Only what helps you care
Data earns its place by helping someone reach out. If it doesn’t serve that, we don’t store it.
Planning Center stays canonical
Your system of record doesn’t change. Astray simply helps you act on it.
Priced per church, never per seat.
Invite your whole care team at no extra cost. Tiers are sized by attendance and campuses — final numbers coming soon.
Small
Single campus, up to ~250 attending
Starting at
$49/mo
Sign UpMid
1–3 campuses, up to ~1,500 attending
Starting at
$129/mo
Sign UpLarge
Multi-campus, 1,500+ attending
Custom
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Bring everyone home.
Astray is opening early access to a small group of churches. Tell us about yours and we’ll set up a walkthrough.