Psalm

For churches · real census data

Every home, a church.

Psalm is an app for churches. Your members host dinner or a Bible study at home and invite neighbors who don’t go to church.

Friends holding hands to pray before dinner at a home table

Psalm is an app for churches. Your members host dinner or a Bible study at home and invite neighbors who don’t go to church.

Bring Psalm to your church I want to host

Los Angeles–Orange County

Each dot is where people live (2020 Census). Color shows who lives within 20 miles of a top-100 church or 6 miles of a member’s table. Locations from the Outreach 100 (2026); no church shown is a Psalm customer.

Three friends with open Bibles talking on a living-room floor — A living room

Neighbors sharing dinner outdoors under string lights — A backyard

College students talking together in a dorm room — A dorm room

Friends talking over dinner at an apartment table — An apartment

A group of friends at a long candlelit restaurant table — A restaurant

Where it happens

Wherever there’s a table.

A living room on Thursday. A dorm after class. The back table at a taco place. Or a video call when life gets in the way. Your members already have the room and the friends. Psalm handles the rest: vetting every host, the RSVPs and a guide for the night.

“Thou preparest a table before me.”Psalm 23:5

How it works

Members open their door. Neighbors walk in.

Most people won’t come to a service. Almost anyone will come to dinner. Psalm helps your members ask.

Friends standing together on a hillside at sunset

1 · Your church picks its hosts

Members apply. You vouch for them.

A member applies and records a one-minute message on a verse they love. A leader who knows them says yes, and Psalm runs an ID and background check.

HostExample

Dana R.

Member since 2019 · Lakeside campus

1-minute messageBackground checkedApproved by church

Friends talking over dinner at a candlelit table

2 · Hosts open a table

Dinner, a study, Sunday’s sermon.

In a home or online. A host can play Sunday’s sermon and talk it over at dinner. Neighbors ask for a seat, and get the address only once the host says yes.

Thursday · 7:00 pm1.2 mi away

Sunday’s sermon, over dinner

Hosted by Dana R. · Maple St area · In person or online

SaveAsk for a seat

Three people laughing together over laptops at a cafe table

3 · You see the reach

How many came, how many were new, how far you reach.

Guests check in after each table. Your team sees how many came, how many were new and who asked to talk to someone, plus a map of every table your church now has.

This monthExample

14tables

23new faces

×2.6reach

Figures in these cards are examples.

“God settles the solitary in a home.”Psalm 68:6

The app

A table on every block.

Your church sees which blocks have a table and which don’t. A team of three runs each table, so hosting rotates and no one burns out. Guests decide what your church sees.

App screen: a 3D map of a church’s neighborhood with orange columns where tables meet, and a list of six blocks without a table, ranked by how many members live there — Your churchWhere you have a table, block by block, and where you don’t yet.

App screen: The Maple St Table, every Thursday at 7 pm, with the next four hosts and a team of three — HostsA standing table, hosted by a rotating team of three.

App screen: a guest’s privacy settings, with toggles for first name, which table, and asking to talk to someone — GuestsGuests choose what your church sees. The default is the least.

App screen: 212 neighbors sat at a table in 90 days, 118 came back, 41 came four or more times, 9 joined a host team — Your churchFrom first dinner to a host team: counted, not tracked.

App screen: a pastor reviews a draft table guide with a verse from Luke 14, three questions and a two-minute clip, then approves and sends it — Your pastorSunday’s sermon becomes this week’s table guide. You approve it before it goes out.

App screen: a host’s guide for Thursday with the verse, a two-minute sermon clip and a checklist before guests arrive — HostsTonight’s guide: the verse, the clip and a short prep list.

App screen: table mode showing one discussion question in large type on a dark screen — At the tableOne question at a time, big enough to read across the table.

Screens from the app we’re building. Names and numbers are examples.

The reach

A campus reaches 20 miles. Your members reach the rest.

We drew a 20-mile circle around a top-100 church, then added 25 member hosts with 6-mile circles, each placed where it reaches the most people still outside. Population from the 2020 Census.

×4.05

Dallas–Fort Worth

1.70M people within reach of one campus. 6.87M with 25 hosts.

×5.74

Greater New York

3.54M from a church in central New Jersey. 20.36M with 25 hosts.

93%

All of America

The 100 largest churches reach 37% of Americans today. With 5,000 hosts, 93%.

Bars show the share of people within 60 miles of the church (or of all Americans) who live in reach, before and after. “In reach” means living nearby, not attending. In a compact city the church may already reach most people; there, hosts add room, not distance.

Is your church on the tour?See its reach on the same census data in a few seconds.

Who a table reaches

Not just more miles. More kinds of people.

A service meets once a week at a set hour. A table can meet on a Tuesday night, a weekday morning or after a late shift.

A smiling nurse in blue scrubs in a hospital hallway

Tue · 9:30 pm

After a late shift

Nurses, servers, officers and warehouse crews. A table after the shift, or on Sunday night instead of Sunday morning.

A mother with two toddlers at a kitchen table

Wed · 10 am

Parents and nannies at home

A weekday-morning table with the kids on the floor. No car seats, no nursery check-in, no hour in the car.

Young adults sharing pizza on a living-room floor

Thu · 8 pm

Students and young adults

A dorm or apartment table after class, hosted by someone their own age.

A couple carrying moving boxes into a new home

Fri · 6:30 pm

New to town

The neighbor who just moved in and doesn’t know anyone yet. A dinner invitation is how people find their people.

A traveler with a suitcase being welcomed at a front door

Mon · 7 pm

Always on the road

Travel nurses, drivers, consultants, military families. Find a table in whatever city you land in, hosted by someone vetted the same way as at home.

Friends laughing together over dinner at home

Sun · 6 pm

Friends who’d never walk into a church

A dinner is an easier yes than a service, and the invitation comes from someone they already trust.

The numbers behind it

30%of employed Americans work on a typical weekend dayBLS American Time Use Survey, 2025

22%of adults under 30 attend church most weeksGallup, 2021–23 surveys

51%of unchurched Americans say a friend’s invitation would get them to visit a churchLifeway Research, 2016

A couple welcoming a guest at their front door

Safety

Vetted by your church. Verified by Psalm.

Your church approves every host.A leader who knows them signs off, and can pause anyone at any time.
Psalm checks every host.A government ID and a background check before their first table.
The address stays private.Guests see the neighborhood. The host shares the address after saying yes.

75%of churches struggled to get or keep insurance

47%were required to show abuse prevention

Church Executive with MinistrySafe, 2024.

Guests say how each table went. Something wrong? Write to safety@psalm.church. A person reads every report.

Need someone to lead?

Book a verified minister.

For a table that wants a teacher, a Sunday without a pastor, or a funeral. Ministers on Psalm pass the same checks plus ordination and references, and they keep 100% of their honorarium.

Questions churches ask

Straight answers.

Still deciding? Join the waitlist and pick a time to talk.

Where do the guests come from?

Two places. People your members already know and invite, and neighbors who see an open seat nearby in the Psalm app. Guests see the neighborhood; the host shares the address only after saying yes.

What do tables talk about?

Sunday’s sermon, by default. Add the recording and Psalm drafts a short guide for every table: a verse, three questions and a two-minute clip. A pastor approves it before any host sees it. A church can set its own series instead.

Does this replace Sunday?

No. Every table runs under your church’s name, with hosts your leaders approved. A host can play Sunday’s sermon at the table, and guests hear about your services when they’re ready.

Who checks the hosts?

Your church approves each host after watching a one-minute message they record. Psalm checks a government ID and runs a background check on every host before their first table.

What does my church see?

How many tables met, how many guests came and how many were new. A guest’s first name, or a request to talk to someone, only when that guest opts in.

What does it cost?

Psalm is still being built. Founding churches help shape the pricing, and joining the waitlist costs nothing.

Does it connect to our church database?

Not yet. Tell us which one you use, such as Planning Center or Rock, when we talk, and it goes on the list.

Founding churches

Start with a few tables.

We’re starting with a small group of founding churches whose members are ready to host. Tell us who you are and we’ll be in touch.

“I was a stranger, and ye took me in.”Matthew 25:35

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