That might sound like a strange thing for a software project to say out loud. But if you are going to give your life to something, you should be able to say plainly what it is for. So here it is: Kingdom Hub exists because the Great Commission is still unfinished, and the people carrying it are buried under admin.

This post is the story behind the work — where it started, the prayer that drives it, and the people on the front line it serves. And at the end, it is an open invitation to stand with them.

The phrase that won't let us go

Plunder hell and populate heaven. The words are most associated with the late evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, who spent his life preaching the gospel to vast crowds. They are blunt on purpose. They refuse to let evangelism become a hobby, a programme or a line in a mission statement.

But the phrase isn't really his. It's a summary of something Scripture says again and again. Jesus did not describe His church as a fortress hiding from the enemy. He described it as a force the enemy's gates cannot hold back:

"Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (Matthew 16:18, KJV)

Gates don't attack. Gates defend. The picture is of a church on the move, and of captives walking out. That is exactly how Paul describes what happened to every believer:

"Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son." (Colossians 1:13, KJV)

So let's be clear about what "plunder" means here. It is not about defeating people. People are never the enemy. It is rescue — the same rescue Jude describes when he tells us to save others "with fear, pulling them out of the fire" (Jude 1:23). Every person who comes to Jesus is a life taken back. That is the plunder.

Why it matters: God "is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). If that is His heart, it has to be ours — and it has to shape how we spend our hours.

Why a software company talks about heaven and hell

Here is the honest reason Kingdom Hub exists. We kept meeting pastors, outreach leaders and Kingdom entrepreneurs who were called to people but spent their weeks managing tools: a spreadsheet for follow-up, a separate app for email, another for events, another for volunteers, a group chat for everything else. Each one costs a little money, a little time and a little attention. Together they cost a lot.

Software is not the mission. It never will be. But bad systems quietly steal the hours that should go to people — the follow-up call that never got made, the new believer nobody checked on, the volunteer who drifted because nobody noticed. Every hour a ministry gets back from admin is an hour it can give to someone God has put in its path.

"And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men." (Colossians 3:23, KJV)

That's why we build. And it's why the tools come out of real outreach rather than a boardroom. Kingdom Base, for example, is a free evangelism CRM built for the streets — so that the people you meet on outreach don't disappear the moment the conversation ends.

Where it started: a street in Hamilton

The story behind all of this belongs to Daniel and Katie Ziedins. In 2014 they didn't launch a ministry. In their own words, they "just started showing up" — walking downtown Hamilton with coffee and one simple question: "Can we pray with you for anything?"

That walk became Love on Hamilton. Over the years it has grown into more than twenty weekly outreach teams of ordinary believers who go out without needing Daniel and Katie there. It carried the same heart into more cities through Love on The World, into Overflow — a Sunday evening service launched in 2022 — and into the Jesus Festival, a free citywide gathering to worship and hear about Jesus.

None of that was engineered. The lesson they keep coming back to is simple: faithfulness beats strategy. The fruit came in the seasons they kept showing up when it was cold, inconvenient and nobody was watching. You can read the whole story in Twelve Years on the Streets on their ministry site.

Equipping the saints: why e3 Canada

Daniel and Katie serve in partnership with e3 Canada, whose mission includes equipping believers to evangelize and establish multiplying churches. That word multiplying is the whole point.

A ministry built on one gifted couple has a ceiling. A ministry that trains ordinary believers to share their faith — who then train others — has no ceiling at all. It is the pattern Paul handed to Timothy:

"And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." (2 Timothy 2:2, KJV)

Four generations in one verse: Paul, Timothy, faithful men, others also. That is how a city is reached. Not by a stage, but by a church where sharing Jesus has become normal — which is exactly what Daniel and Katie help churches build.

"If my people…": God Heal Our Land

There is something that has to come before the harvest, and it is prayer. Not as a formality at the start of a meeting, but as the engine of the whole thing. That conviction is why Daniel founded God Heal Our Land — a national call to prayer, repentance and revival for Canada, built on one of the most prayed verses in Scripture:

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14, KJV)

Look at who the verse is addressed to. Not the nation's leaders. Not the people who don't know God. My people. Healing for a land begins with the church on its knees — humbling itself, praying, seeking His face and turning from its own sin. The promise is staggering: He will hear, He will forgive, and He will heal.

And when the church prays like that, Scripture shows what happens next:

"And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness." (Acts 4:31, KJV)

Prayer leads to boldness. Boldness leads to the gospel being spoken. That is the line that runs from a prayer meeting to a street in Hamilton.

Prayer and the harvest belong together

If you want one verse that ties all of this together — God Heal Our Land, e3 Canada, the outreach teams, even the software — it is this one. Jesus looks at the crowds, sees them as sheep without a shepherd, and gives His disciples an instruction that is easy to miss:

"The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." (Matthew 9:37–38, KJV)

The harvest is not the problem. It is plentiful. The shortage is labourers. And Jesus' answer to the shortage is first of all prayer — and then, in the very next chapter, He sends the people who prayed. Pray, then go. Pray, then send. Prayer for the nation and equipping believers to reach it are not two causes. They are one obedience.

- Pray — God Heal Our Land calls the church to pray for Canada.
- Equip — e3 Canada trains believers to share their faith and multiply.
- Go — outreach teams take the gospel into the streets every week.
- Serve the senders — tools like Kingdom Hub give that time back.

What partnership actually means

Paul never pretended he did his work alone. He wrote to the church at Philippi with open gratitude:

"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now." (Philippians 1:3–5, KJV)

Fellowship in the gospel — partnership. The Philippians didn't preach in Thessalonica or write the letters, but they shared in the work because they sent and supported the man who did. Scripture treats the sender as part of the mission:

"How shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" (Romans 10:14–15, KJV)

Here is the invitation. If something in you stirs when you read about the gates of hell giving way, about Canada healed, about a church where sharing Jesus is normal — there is a real way to be part of it. Every story Daniel and Katie tell of a life changed came through a body of people praying, giving and showing up. Not one of them was a solo effort.

- Pray. Genuinely the most valuable thing anyone gives. Pray for Daniel and Katie, for the outreach teams, and for Canada — join the call at God Heal Our Land.
- Partner monthly. Monthly partners are what let a ministry plan ahead and go further. You can partner with Daniel and Katie through e3 Canada. Giving happens securely on e3's own site.
- Bring it to your church. Invite Daniel and Katie to equip your church for evangelism so sharing Jesus becomes ordinary for your people.
- Stay close. Follow the story and get ministry updates at KD-Ziedins.com.
- Pass it on. Share this post with one person who would want to stand with this work.

Where Kingdom Hub fits

Kingdom Hub is one small part of this picture, and we want to be honest about its place. It is a command centre for churches, ministries and Kingdom entrepreneurs — one dashboard for your people, communication, events and work — so that the hours you have go to the people you are called to. It is still being built, and founding members on the waitlist help shape what comes first.

But the tools are only ever servants. The point is the harvest.

One day the work will be finished. John saw it:

"After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb." (Revelation 7:9, KJV)

A multitude no one could count. That is what populating heaven looks like. Until that day, we pray, we equip, we go, and we send — so that "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea" (Habakkuk 2:14).

All for God's glory. In Jesus' name.

If that sounds familiar, you're not disorganised. You're normal. But the cost of an accidental stack is real, and most of it doesn't show up on a credit card statement. This guide walks through how to see your stack clearly, count what it actually costs, and consolidate in an order that doesn't break anything along the way.

What is a ministry tech stack?

Your tech stack is every piece of software your church, ministry or Kingdom business uses to operate. For most ministries it falls into a handful of jobs:

- People — contacts, members, new visitors, people met on outreach, follow-up.
- Communication — email newsletters, text messages, group chats, announcements.
- Events — registration, check-in, volunteer rosters, reminders.
- Web presence — website, forms, landing pages, booking.
- Money — donations, payments, subscriptions, receipts.
- Work — tasks, projects, planning, documents.
- Discipleship and growth — courses, devotionals, habit tracking, small groups.

There's no single right number of tools. The question isn't "how many apps do we use?" but "do our tools serve the people, or do our people serve the tools?"

The real cost of juggling tools

Subscription fees are the visible cost, and they add up faster than most leaders realise — which is why we built a calculator to total them. But the hidden costs are usually bigger:

1. The same person lives in five places

Someone visits on Sunday, signs up for an event, joins a group chat and subscribes to your newsletter. Now they exist in four systems, spelled slightly differently in each, and nobody has the full picture. When that person goes quiet, nobody notices — because the signal is scattered.

2. Double entry eats volunteer hours

Every time information is copied from one tool to another, someone is spending time that could have gone to people. Volunteers burn out on admin far more often than on ministry.

3. Every tool is another login and another lesson

Each new team member has to learn each tool, get access to each account, and be removed from each one when they step back. That's not just friction — it's a security risk when old access is never revoked.

4. Knowledge leaves with people

When the one person who "knows how the spreadsheet works" moves on, the system often goes with them. Ministries that depend on individual memory instead of shared systems lose relationships every time a leader transitions.

A useful test: Ask your team: "If someone we met last month went quiet, how would we know?" If the honest answer is "we probably wouldn't", your stack is costing you people, not just money.

Step 1: Audit what you actually use

Before changing anything, write it all down. Gather your leaders for thirty minutes and list every tool, including the free ones and the ones only one person uses. For each, note:

- What job it does (people, communication, events, web, money, work, discipleship).
- What it costs each month — and who is paying for it.
- Who has access, and who is the one person who really knows it.
- What data lives only there.
- Whether you'd notice if it disappeared tomorrow.

You'll almost always find overlap — two tools doing the same job — and at least one paid subscription nobody remembers signing up for. Our free ministry tech stack calculator does the arithmetic for you.

Step 2: Decide what the centre is

Every healthy stack has a centre of gravity: the one place that holds the truth about your people. For most ministries, that should be a CRM — a shared record of who people are, how you know them and what their next step is. (If that term is new, read What Is a Church CRM?)

Once you know where people live, every other tool either connects to that centre or gets replaced by something that does.

Step 3: Consolidate in the right order

Trying to switch everything at once is how ministries end up with a half-migrated mess and a team that hates the new system. Go in this order:

- People first. Clean up and merge your contact data into one place. Remove duplicates. Make sure you know how each person consented to hear from you.
- Communication second. Email and text should send from the same place your people live, so you can see who heard what.
- Events and forms third. Registrations should flow straight into your people data instead of a separate spreadsheet.
- Everything else after. Tasks, projects, courses and giving can move once the foundation is stable.

Run old and new side by side for a short, fixed period, then switch the old one off. A cut-over date everyone knows about beats a slow fade that never finishes.

Step 4: Protect people's information

The people in your systems trusted you with their names, numbers and sometimes their prayer requests. Treat that as a stewardship, not a database.

- Collect only what you'll use, and say why you're collecting it.
- Know how each person agreed to hear from you. In Canada, email and text messaging fall under anti-spam law (CASL), so consent matters — check your obligations if you're unsure.
- Give access only to the people who need it, and remove it when they step back.
- Keep sensitive notes, like prayer requests, visible only to the people caring for that person.

What a consolidated stack looks like

This is exactly the problem Kingdom Hub is being built to solve: one command centre for people, communication, events and work, with Kingdom apps connected underneath it instead of scattered across logins. Some of those apps are free to use today:

- Kingdom Base — a free evangelism CRM for remembering the people you meet on outreach.
- Task Simply — tasks and notes with personal, business, family and ministry modes.
- Kingdom Event Builder — plan and run events with tasks, volunteers and registration.
- Reborn Life — a personal Life OS for habits and spiritual disciplines.

Whatever you choose, the goal is the same: fewer tools, one source of truth about your people, and more of your week spent with them.

Software will never make disciples. But the right systems can stop getting in the way of the people who do. And if you want to see why that matters so much to us, read Plunder Hell, Populate Heaven.

This guide explains what a church CRM is in plain language, how it differs from church management software and from an evangelism CRM, what it should track, and how to pick one your team will genuinely use.

What is a church CRM?

CRM stands for customer relationship management. Strip away the business language and a CRM is simply a shared memory for relationships: a record of the people you're connected to, how you met them, what's happening in their lives and what the next step is.

A church CRM applies that to ministry. Instead of tracking customers and deals, it tracks visitors, new believers, volunteers, people met on outreach, prayer requests and follow-up. Its job is to make sure care doesn't depend on one person's memory.

In one sentence: A church CRM is the shared place your team records who people are and what their next step is — so follow-up happens even on the busiest weeks.

Why would a church need one?

Because people fall through cracks that nobody can see. A visitor fills in a card, a newcomer mentions they're struggling, someone on outreach says they'd like to know more about Jesus — and then the week happens. Without a shared system, follow-up depends on whoever happened to be there remembering to do it.

Scripture paints a picture of shepherding that is personal and attentive. Jesus describes the shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine to go after the one (Luke 15:4). A CRM can't do the leaving. But it can make sure you notice that one is missing.

Church CRM vs church management software vs evangelism CRM

These terms get used interchangeably, but they usually point to different priorities:

- Church management software (ChMS) centres on members and administration — attendance, check-in, groups, giving records and directories. Its question is: who is in our church, and how is it running?
- A church CRM centres on relationships and follow-up — notes, next steps, assigned caregivers and communication. Its question is: who needs care from us next?
- An evangelism CRM centres on people not yet in a church — those met on the street, at events or through friends. Its question is: who have we met, and how do we follow up faithfully? Kingdom Base is a free evangelism CRM built for exactly this.

Many products cover more than one of these, so don't choose by label. Choose by asking what you actually need your team to do every week.

What should a church CRM track?

Start small. A CRM full of empty fields is worse than a short one people keep up to date. The essentials:

- Who they are — name and the contact details they've agreed to share.
- How you met — the event, service, outreach or friend that connected you, and when.
- Who owns the relationship — one named person on your team, so follow-up never belongs to "everyone".
- What's happening — short notes from conversations, and prayer requests (kept appropriately private).
- The next step — one clear action with a date: a call, a coffee, an invitation to a group.
- Consent — how they agreed to hear from you, so your communication is welcome rather than intrusive.

How to choose one your team will actually use

The best CRM is the one that gets used. Before you compare features, ask:

- Can a volunteer learn it in ten minutes? If only staff can use it, the people doing most of the follow-up won't.
- Does it work on a phone? Follow-up happens in car parks and coffee shops, not at desks.
- Does it connect to how you communicate? Seeing who received which message, from the same place, saves hours.
- Can you control who sees what? Prayer needs and pastoral notes deserve careful access.
- Can you get your data out? You should never be locked in to a system that holds your people.
- What does it cost as you grow? Some tools charge per contact, which quietly punishes a ministry for reaching more people.

Common mistakes to avoid

- Tracking everything. Only record what someone will use to care for a person.
- No owner. If a contact belongs to everyone, nobody follows up.
- Importing a mess. Clean and de-duplicate before you migrate, not after.
- Treating it as admin. A CRM is a tool for love, not for reporting. If the team sees it as paperwork, it will die.

Where Kingdom Hub fits

Kingdom Hub is building a full CRM into its Command Centre — people, pipelines, email and text, events and automation in one dashboard — designed for churches, ministries and Kingdom businesses instead of adapted from sales software. Until it launches, Kingdom Base is free to use for outreach follow-up today.

If you're weighing whether all of this is worth the effort, our guide to the ministry tech stack walks through consolidating your tools in the right order. And if you want to know why we care so much about follow-up, it comes down to one conviction: every person matters to God. Read more in Plunder Hell, Populate Heaven.