The template library
Every Pulsily church gets these templates the day they sign up. Most teams run Pastoral Heart for a month before they write anything custom — and most churches end up using two or three of these as the spine of their year.
Writing your own? Steal from our 40+ field-tested example questions.
Every leader · Monthly
The default. The one most teams run for a year before they write anything custom. Two quiet questions about how the volunteer is doing under the hood.
Scale (1–5)
How are you really doing this week?
Open text
Anything weighing on you?
Used by every new church in their first month. The single question most leaders say they wish their pastor had asked them years ago.
Sunday-team volunteers (worship, hospitality, kids, ushers) · Weekly, post-Sunday
Goes out Sunday evening or Monday morning. Small, fast, won't compete with their week — but tracks the long arc of how Sunday volunteers carry the rhythm of the week.
Scale (1–5)
How are you carrying it this week?
Open text
Anything I should pray for?
Built for teams that serve every Sunday. The cadence matches their rhythm, not yours.
Members in their first year · Quarterly (week 4, 12, 26, 52)
Catches the people who walked in excited and quietly faded by month nine. Four well-spaced check-ins through the most fragile year of someone's faith.
Multiple choice
Where are you in your faith this season?
Open text
What's one thing you've been wrestling with?
The data on first-year drop-off in American churches is brutal. This template tries to do something about it.
Paid staff only · Monthly
The exec pastor's version. Honest about workload, energy, and the small frictions staff don't usually surface. Goes to the senior pastor or HR; not visible to the rest of the staff.
Scale (1–5)
How sustainable does your current pace feel?
Open text
What's one thing only you would notice that you wish someone else did?
Pastors get cared for last. This template tries to fix that with structure instead of guilt.
Members who attended after a long absence · Triggered (not on a schedule)
Fires when someone marked absent for 8+ weeks attends again. The pastor gets a small nudge that day — and the volunteer gets a gentle, no-pressure check-in two days later.
Open text
Welcome back. Anything we should know?
Most absences aren't crises — they're life. This template handles the few that are.
Every template ships pre-loaded. Pick one inside the app, point it at a team or audience, and it’s out the door in five minutes.