trellus Keeping big churches small.

See the signal,
not the noise.

Trellus distills the operational signal from your kids ministry data, so you can shepherd people, not systems. Ministry is hard. Operations shouldn’t be.

Planning Center tells you what happened. Trellus tells you what’s about to happen.

Built inside Storyline Church. Opening to a founding cohort before launch.

How it works

We tend the data so you can tend the flock.

No new spreadsheets. No new logins for your team. Planning Center stays the system of record — Trellus reads it, and reads ahead.

01 / Weekly Intelligence

See who’s drifting, while there’s still time.

Trellus reads every accept, decline, no-show, and check-in against each person’s own history, and tells you what changed. You decide what it means.

  • A weekly follow-up list. Who to reach out to now, who can wait — measured against their own normal, not a generic rule.
  • The week families slip away. A survival curve shows where first-time families have stopped coming back, so a first visit becomes a habit.
  • Signals, not verdicts. You see the change in behavior. You bring the relationship.
The Trellus health dashboard Overview — a weekly read on the team: who needs follow-up now (Act now, This week, Watch), total volunteers, and the positions running short.

02 / Workflow Automation

Build the next eight Sundays in one click.

Auto-build the whole roster in seconds. When someone drops, Trellus suggests the substitutes most likely to say yes — and writes it back to Planning Center for you.

  • Full schedule, or just the gaps. Build weeks ahead, or fill only the open slots without touching anyone already serving.
  • The right ask, first. Suggestions are ranked by who has served that room and actually shows up — so you’re not guessing.
  • Planning Center stays in charge. Every assignment lands back in PCO as one clear request. No second system, no double emails.
The Trellus Schedule Matrix — a live staffing grid of every room across each service time, with critical gaps flagged in red and one-click Fill open gaps and Propose full schedule actions.

03 / Appreciation

Catch the moments worth celebrating.

Trellus watches for anniversaries, milestones, comebacks, and the quietly faithful, then drafts a note in their own words. You read it, and send.

  • The moments, found for you. A serving anniversary, a 100th Sunday, a return after time away, a quarter of perfect attendance.
  • Their own numbers, not hollow praise. Every draft names the real fact. You add the warmth.
  • Only the people still serving. Nothing fires for someone who quietly stepped away.
The Trellus appreciation dashboard — tabs for anniversaries, serve counts, comebacks and quiet heroes, milestone counts, and a This Sunday list of volunteers to celebrate in person.

Why Trellus

Ministry is hard. Operations shouldn’t be.

There are two kinds of hard in kids ministry. Only one of them needs a person.

Ministry-hard

Pastoral conversations, discipleship, family care, prayer, presence. The work that only a person can do — and should.

Trellus doesn’t touch this.

Operations-hard

Scheduling, updating spreadsheets, tracking patterns, finding gaps, chasing follow-ups. Software-shaped work that’s been eating human-shaped time.

Trellus handles this.

Let tech do the mundane, so humans do what only humans can.

Sunday is going to come either way.

See what’s about to happen this week — while there’s still time to do something about it.