Sovereign

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Empowering God's church to be sovereign in all tech aspects of the church.

One platform for a church's digital home: website, app, groups, teams, care and giving. Owned by the church, hosted in Europe, without heavy dependence on a handful of big tech companies.

Why sovereign

Churches run on tools they do not control. Names, prayer requests, children's check-ins and gifts end up spread across services that can change their terms, their prices or their rules at any time. A church should be able to decide where its people's data lives, who sees it, and how to take it with them.

“Be still, and know that I am God.”Psalm 46

Principles

Technology in service of people, never the other way around.

Ownership

The church's data is the church's

Never reused for other purposes or other products. A full export, in open formats, at any moment.

Europe

Data stays in the EU

The database runs in Amsterdam. Personal data lives in one place only, never in logs or spreadsheets.

Care

Loving, never controlling

The system may notice; only a person responds. No likes, badges or public streaks. What you share about yourself stays yours.

Approval

Nothing goes out by itself

Posts, clips, cards and summaries are always approved by a person first.

One codebase

Every church, one platform

A new church is configuration: its name, colours, locations and texts. No forks, central updates.

Free to use

For every church on the platform

Each church gets a free right of use. The concept and code are maintained by Neveoh; the congregation's data never belongs to us.

What a church gets

Built with and for a real church, piece by piece.

Website

Pages written by the church's own team in documents they already know, published with one click.

App

iOS and Android, in the church's own name and look.

First visit

“I'm coming”: a host is ready at the door, and the journey from visitor to member is cared for by people.

Groups and teams

Small groups people join themselves, volunteer teams with rosters, swaps and a thank-you on Sunday evening.

Care

A gentle check-in; a request for prayer or contact reaches one person, only when asked for.

Kids check-in

Check in with a pick-up code, designed with the kids team.

Services and daily time with God

A card from Sunday's message every morning, and Be Still: a fixed daily moment with God, with alarm and music.

Giving

Through a European payment provider, with a yearly overview only the giver sees.

Sovereign, step by step

We are honest about where we are. Today the data and the code are the church's own; some parts still run on big platforms. This is the path away from them.

  1. Today

    Data in Amsterdam, own code, European payments. Full export of the church's data. No ads, no tracking, no data sales.

  2. Next

    European hosting. Moving the servers to a European cloud provider.

  3. Next

    Own sign-in. A European identity service, so signing in no longer depends on a big tech account; those remain an option, not a requirement.

  4. Then

    Documents, calendar and mail. European, open alternatives next to the tools churches use today, with the church choosing.

  5. Then

    Beyond the app stores. The full experience as a web app too, so a church is never dependent on two stores alone.

The first church

Level Church Nederland, four locations, one family. Re-discover God. Find your home & people to be real with.

Visit levelchurch.app