No full database syncing
We poll only what’s needed to notice drift — never a mirrored copy of everyone’s record.
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, human next step. Before a missed Sunday becomes a missing person.
A workflow, not a dashboard · No full database syncing · Multi-campus
Gone quiet
Mike Gardner
A steady giving rhythm has gone quiet — nothing since Apr 27.
Log a care check-inAssign me
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. 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.
Monday Focus
The week’s people, gathered.
No metric cards, no queue. Monday Focus opens with the people who could use attention this week — the promise to keep, the new family to welcome, the rhythm that’s gone quiet — each with one plain sentence of why, and one clear next step.
Keep a promise
2Ruth Delgado
You promised a visit after her surgery on Jul 10.
Log a care check-inWelcome someone new
2Emily Tran
First visit on Jul 19 — filled out a connect card.
Log a care check-inGone quiet
3Marcus Lee
Usually serves every other week — nothing since May 10.
Log a care check-inActive in Groups
58% +6
Six straight months of climb.
Giving Participation
41% steady
Barely a ripple all year.
Actively Serving
24% −7
The one to watch since Easter.
Congregational health
Know which way you’re heading.
Not a wall of charts — a compass. Groups, serving, and giving sorted into rising, steady, and drifting, with six months of movement behind every number and a one-line reading a pastor could say aloud to the elders. Totals only, never names.
The care log
Every story, remembered.
Visits, calls, prayers — logged in a sentence and kept like a journal, so whoever reaches out next knows the story so far. Team notes stay with the team; private notes stay with the pastors.
Jul 12
Visit
Visited Ruth after her hip surgery. Spirits high — she asked for prayer about the recovery timeline.
Jul 3
Phone call
Called ahead of Thursday’s surgery to pray with her. Nervous but grateful.
What happened, and what should the team remember?Save to Ruth’s story
“Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds.”
Proverbs 27:23
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.
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Let’s talk
Contact usThe questions pastors ask first.
Does Astray replace Planning Center?
No. Planning Center stays your system of record, and Astray never writes changes back to it. We read the rhythms you already track — attendance, groups, serving, giving — and tell you who could use a call. You keep doing the work where you already do it.
Where does this fit next to Monday and Slack?
Alongside them. Monday still runs your projects and Slack still carries the conversation. Astray answers the one question neither of them does: who needs attention this week, why, and what happened last.
Is this surveillance?
No. There are no leaderboards and no attendance scores, and Astray never stores a gift amount. Monday Focus can tell you a giving rhythm has gone quiet; the card itself never carries an amount. What you see is one person, one plain sentence about why they came up, and one next step. The point is a phone call, not a report.
What about someone who has never joined a group or served?
They won’t show up as drift. Astray only notices when a rhythm someone already had goes quiet. Never having started isn’t drifting — Monday Focus will never hand you a list of people who haven’t begun.
Who on staff can see what?
Access follows each person’s role and their own church — nobody sees another congregation’s people. In the care log, team notes stay with the team and private notes stay with the pastors.
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.