Research · Survey

State of Church Creative & AI 2027

By Heredes Ribeiro, Founder / CIO, Mission Creative · Published · Last reviewed

Mission Creative is surveying church communications directors, creative pastors, media and tech directors, and pastors who own communications about how churches staff creative work and use AI. It takes about five minutes.

Mission Creative is a church production and creative company, founded in 2004 by Dave Bookhout and Heredes Ribeiro and based in Tampa, Florida, that builds brands, sermon series and capital campaign creative, video, audio/video/lighting production systems, websites, and AI training and workflows for churches nationwide.

Results will be published free on this page in early 2027, with charts by church size. We will not publish any individual answers.

1Your role
2Average weekend attendance
3Paid creative/comms staff
4Who makes your sermon series graphics? (choose all that apply)
6Do you produce a bumper or promo video per series?
7Do you livestream? With how many cameras?
8Biggest creative bottleneck
9Which AI tools does your team use weekly? (choose all that apply)
10What do you use AI for? (choose all that apply)
11Does your church have a written AI policy?
12Have you checked whether your church appears in ChatGPT or Google AI answers?
13Annual creative/comms budget excluding salaries
14Run a capital campaign in the last 3 years? Who made the creative?