Who it is for
Church staff and volunteers already working in Planning Center who want to ask questions of their ministry data.
Planning Center
Conversational access to church management records
Overview
What Planning Center does
Planning Center is church management software from Ministry Centered Technologies. This app connects a Planning Center account to ChatGPT so ministry records can be queried in conversation rather than navigated through the interface.
Access is scoped per person. Each user authenticates with their own account, and the assistant can reach only the data that individual's Planning Center permissions already allow, so connecting does not widen anyone's view of the organization. The listing keeps the description at that level and does not specify which Planning Center products or record types are covered, or whether records can be changed as well as read.
What stands out
Permissions follow the individual account, so the app cannot surface records that person could not already open.
Availability
Where Planning Center is listed
Planning Center ships this on both marketplaces: Planning Center is listed in the Claude connectors directory and in the ChatGPT apps directory, under the same publisher domain.
Only 392 of the 3,150 products in this directory are listed in both marketplaces. One MCP server can serve both surfaces; what differs is each platform's listing and review process.
ChatGPT listing
In the ChatGPT apps directory
- Developer
- Ministry Centered Technologies
- Filed under
- Productivity
- Listed since
- June 2026
- Authentication
- Authenticates when installed
- Website
- planningcenter.com
- Policies published
- Privacy policy · Terms of service
- Official listing
- Open in ChatGPT
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
Planning Center publishes 37 tools to Claude, deeper than 85.4% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Productivity publishes 12, so this one runs 25 tools above its bucket's median and ranks 69th of 462 by tool count.
It falls in the 21-50 tools band, which holds 20% of the Claude directory.
Planning Center publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Planning Center
- Verification
- Community-listed (61.5% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Productivity
- Endpoint
-
https://mcp.planningcenteronline.com/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 37 · 21-50 tools band
- Depth rank in Productivity
- 69 of 462
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Planning Center is community-listed in the Claude directory, the tier 770 of 1,253 connectors sit in (61.5%). It is the default for a self-published server, and says nothing either way about quality.
In the publisher's words
How Planning Center describes it
Connect Planning Center to Claude to interact with your ministry data through natural conversation. Each user connects with their own account, so Claude only sees what their Planning Center permissions allow.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Planning Center's public marketplace listings as they stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Planning Center, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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