For churches
Your care ministry is not too small. It’s stretched too thin.
Every church has a handful of people quietly caring for someone who is dying, declining, or chronically ill. They rarely ask. They rarely miss a Sunday either — they just stop coming, and it takes months before anyone notices. MeloCare puts a hand under those families every single morning, and tells your team the moment showing up would matter.
How MeloCare sustains exhausted caregivers — inside a church care ministry.
MeloCare: Morning Hand — the daily rhythm a family and their church share.
Why the name MeloCare?
MeloCare comes from two Greek words that describe what a care ministry actually is. μέλω means “to care” or “to be a concern to someone” — the moment a feeling becomes a calendar entry, a meal train, a ride to chemo. Μέλει σοι: “Does it matter to you?” For the church, the answer is yes, because 1 Peter 5:7 says God himself cares for his people, and Matthew 25 says that care becomes visible when his people show up for the sick. μέλος means “member” — Paul’s language in 1 Corinthians 12, where one member’s suffering is every member’s concern. MeloCare is the tool that turns that theology into a roster, a ride, and a morning briefing.
Reach every caregiver, not just the loudest need
Pastors and ministers cannot call forty families a week. MeloCare can, faithfully, and flags the ones who need a human today.
Care that continues past the casserole
Support usually lasts two weeks. Caregiving lasts two years. MeloCare keeps going long after the meal train ends.
Discipleship in the hardest season
Scripture and prayer meet these families where they actually are: exhausted, angry, afraid, and still reaching for God.
$39 a month per patient + caregiver — $25 if your church runs Sophia. Sponsored by the church, free to the family.
You pay only for the families you approve, plus a one-time $99 setup for churches starting on their own. Month to month, cancel anytime — there are no annual plans. Cancelling keeps access through the end of the month you already paid for; we do not prorate or refund unused time. Most churches carry three to ten families at once.
MeloCare inside Sophia
$25 /mo
Per patient + caregiver, per month
- Setup fee waived — nothing to pay up front
- MeloCare turns on as an add-on for churches on Sophia Kingdom level
- One administrator, one approval list, one place your care ministry works
- Daily care briefing, scripture, translator, medication and supplement list
- Care circle: up to two more people — an adult child, a neighbor — get the reports
- Respite, meal, ride and errand board your pastors, ministers, and leadership teams can staff, unlimited helpers
- 600 AI conversations a month per patient + caregiver unit, then a lighter answer mode
- Month to month, cancel anytime — the church sets the review date
MeloCare on its own
$39 /mo
For churches not on Sophia yet
- Same MeloCare — briefing, translator, lists, printing, support board
- One-time $99 setup covers the onboarding call and administrator training
- Start with three approved families
- Drops to $25 a family, setup waived, whenever your church adds Sophia
- Month to month, cancel anytime
Multi-campus
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40+ approved families or several campuses
- Sophia churches stay at $25 with setup waived
- On its own, multi-campus starts at $29 per family with a $299 one-time setup
- Per-campus care teams and reporting
- Hospital and hospice chaplain coordination
- Dedicated onboarding for your care staff
Who gets added, and who approves it
1. The church decides
Not every sick member needs this, and no one is enrolled automatically. Your care ministry chooses which families to sponsor, one at a time.
2. The family consents
The member and the caregiver both say yes in writing before anything is created. Consent can be withdrawn at any point, and the workspace closes with it.
3. The administrator approves
A church administrator — not the patient — is the approver of record. They add or end a family in one click, choose a monthly, quarterly or open-ended review, and billing follows that list exactly.
Respite is the point
The board exists so the church can give the patient and the caregiver real rest: a few hours of sitting with the patient, a ride to chemo, a grocery run, a mowed yard, a night when no one has to cook. MeloCare names the need, your people claim a slot, and Matthew 25 stops being a sermon illustration.
“I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.”
Matthew 25:36WEB
The privacy promise
What your church sees
- Which families are approved and active
- When a caregiver asks for a meal, ride, visit, or prayer
- Whether someone has gone quiet and may need a call
What it never sees
- Diagnoses, medications, or prognosis
- Doctor notes or anything the caregiver wrote privately
- The content of their briefings or prayers
“Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Galatians 6:2WEB
Print this for your care ministry
A one-page privacy and FAQ summary for the Church Edition — no personal or medical information is stored anywhere, it all stays on the patient’s own phone. Share it with your elders, deacons, and the families you sponsor.
Download the Church Edition privacy FAQ (PDF)The binding legal text families accept — with consent checkboxes — is the Church Edition legal disclaimer.