For pastors
A personal CRM for pastors — care for a congregation the way a good shepherd does: by name.
The widow whose first Christmas alone is coming, the family that quietly stopped attending, the teenager you promised to check on after the hospital visit. Endearist is a pastor's memory — kept on the pastor's own device, where confidences belong.
Grief has anniversaries — and they arrive after the casseroles stop
Everyone shows up the week of the funeral. The hard days come later: the first birthday without him, the anniversary of the diagnosis, the date itself, one year on. Log the loss once and set a gentle reminder for those dates — a call, a card, a visit. Nobody else in that person's life is tracking this. That a pastor remembered, unprompted, eleven months later, is ministry no sermon can match.
Hospital visits, birthdays, baptisms — a care rhythm per person
Pastoral care isn't a campaign; it's a hundred small rhythms running at once. The shut-in who needs a monthly visit, the new parents who need a call in week three when the help dries up, the elder recovering from surgery. Endearist's per-contact cadence lets each person have their own rhythm, and the warmth score quietly shows who's been waiting longest — so care is steered by attention, not by whoever spoke up loudest on Sunday.
Whole families, not entries in a member database
You don't minister to individuals in isolation — you walk with households. In Endearist, families, kids, and even pets are first-class: ask after the daughter's confirmation prep, the son who moved to Hamburg, the dog the kids campaigned for. When a member mentions her mother's diagnosis in passing, it goes on the family's page — and surfaces before your next visit, so the question "how is your mother doing?" comes from you first.
Confidences stay on your device — Seelsorgegeheimnis by architecture
What people tell a pastor — the failing marriage, the relapse, the doubt — is among the most protected speech there is, and it has no business in a church-management cloud or a US SaaS database. Endearist is local-first: pastoral notes live on your device, full stop. If you sync between phone and study computer, it's end-to-end encrypted; no one — including us — can read it. For German congregations, that's the Seelsorgegeheimnis and DSGVO taken seriously, by design rather than by policy document.
A memory aid, not a surveillance system
There's a real line between remembering people well and monitoring them, and Endearist is built to stay on the right side of it. No engagement scores on parishioners, no attendance analytics, no dashboards ranking your flock. It's the digital version of the worn notebook generations of pastors kept — names, stories, dates that matter — searchable and private. The goal isn't data about your congregation; it's walking into the room already knowing what to ask.
€69 once — fits a ministry budget, owned outright
Ministry budgets don't love subscriptions, and pastoral notes shouldn't be hostage to a lapsed credit card. Endearist is free up to 25 contacts — enough to try it with your core care list — and €69 once for lifetime. Import the parish list you already have via CSV or vCard; export everything as plain Markdown whenever you or a successor needs it. The tool serves the calling, not the other way round.
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