Se habla español — and dozens more languages

Someone asked your church for help. What happened next?

Most ministries never find out. CMinLink listens to the need — by chat or voice, in English or Spanish — matches it to your community’s services, then does what a list never could: follows up and records the outcome. Every referral, closed with an answer.

Every referral tracked to an outcome
<30s from need to matched services
24/7 chat & voice, English y español
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“I just got an eviction notice… I have two kids. I don’t know where to start.”

Via chat · Tuesday 9:12 AM

Referral created — Hope Housing Alliance

Housing Assistance · 9:14 AM

Assigned to Sarah M.

Volunteer, benevolence team · 9:16 AM

Details texted to client

Consent recorded · 9:20 AM

Check-in: “Did you connect with Hope Housing?” — “Yes”

Day 6 · via text

Outcome: Connected

Loop closed in 6 days · recorded for your reports

Loop closed

A family, connected to housing help

Built for trust
Consent before any text
Crisis reaches humans first
Retention rules, enforced
A nonprofit, not a vendor

Everything a ministry needs to
turn compassion into outcomes

Purpose-built for church benevolence and community ministry teams — not adapted from enterprise case management.

Conversational intake

Type or speak what someone needs — “eviction notice and two kids” — and CMinLink matches services from your own verified directory. Volunteers are helpful on day one, no training binder required.

Referrals that close

Every referral gets an owner, a follow-up date, and a recorded outcome — created, assigned, contacted, closed. The wondering is over.

Follow-up that runs itself

A morning digest tells your team who’s due for a check-in — and, with consent, a gentle text asks the person you helped: “Did you connect?” One reply records the answer.

Speaks their language

The assistant converses in Spanish and dozens of other languages, by text or voice — and the app itself runs in Spanish for your volunteers.

Privacy as a covenant

Anonymous sessions for walk-ins, consent recorded before any text is sent, and retention rules the software itself enforces. Written down, and kept.

Reports your board will read

Connection rates, days-to-outcome, and your community’s unmet needs — printable for deacons, elders, denominational reports, and grant applications.

Answers from the list you trust — not the internet’s guesses

CMinLink recommends only from the directory your team builds and maintains: the organizations you actually work with, described by the people who’ve called the number and shaken the hand.

  • A web search returns whatever ranks — programs that ended years ago, wrong hours, phone numbers that ring to nowhere.
  • A generic AI chatbot answers confidently from the whole internet — and can invent an organization that has never existed.
  • CMinLink answers only from your curated directory. Every recommendation is a place your ministry knows — with hours, eligibility, and notes your own volunteers keep current.
  • Add each organization and the specific services it provides — with per-service notes, hours, and contacts
  • Open or closed is computed live — a 2 AM chat never sends a family to a locked door
  • Data-quality reports flag stale or incomplete entries, so the list stays worthy of the trust you put in it
  • Print the whole directory for the desk drawer, the welcome table, and the volunteer binder
  • Founding Partners: we seed and verify your first directory with you, side by side

Hope Housing Alliance

Verified 12 days ago
Housing Assistance Shelter (Families)
Open now · until 5:00 PM · intake closes at 4:00
(919) 555-0148 · ask for the family intake line
2.1 miles from your church · on the Route 7 bus line
“Ask for Denise. Call before sending families with children — the family unit fills up by early afternoon.” Note from your benevolence team · updated by Sarah M.

Help in the language
they speak

No translator on hand? No problem. Someone can describe what they need in Spanish — or dozens of other languages — and CMinLink answers in that same language, with real, local services.

  • Detects the language automatically — nothing to set up
  • Replies in the same language, with matched services — in text or out loud
  • The whole app — screens, buttons, reports — available in Spanish for your team
Español Necesito comida para mi familia esta noche.
CMinLink · Español Claro. Hay tres despensas de alimentos abiertas ahora mismo cerca de usted…

From need to outcome,
in one unbroken loop

Whether someone walks through your door, calls, or messages at midnight — nothing falls through, and nothing is forgotten.

1

Listen

Chat or voice, in English, Spanish, or their own language. A person describes the need in their own words.

2

Match

CMinLink matches the need against your community’s verified directory — hours, eligibility, and location included.

3

Refer

Your team reviews, then shares details by print, text, or email — with consent recorded when it’s a text.

4

Follow up

Reminders reach your volunteers; a gentle check-in text reaches the person helped. Nobody has to remember.

5

Learn

The outcome is recorded. Your reports show what worked, what didn’t, and where your community’s gaps are.

Then it begins again — and every closed loop makes the next match smarter.

Ten churches will shape this platform. Yours could be one.

CMinLink is new, and hands-on onboarding doesn’t scale past a handful of churches at a time. The first ten partners get a price and a level of attention later customers won’t — because what we learn together is what makes this work for the hundreds of churches after you.

  • What we ask: permission to name your church as a Founding Partner, one case-study conversation (you approve anything before it’s published), and a 30-minute feedback call each month for six months.
  • Nothing hidden: cancel anytime after the 12-month price lock, and your data exports in full, free, whenever you ask.

Lead an association, presbytery, or church network? Ask about cohort partnerships — shared regional directories and community-needs reporting across your member churches.

Founding Partner Charter
$25 $49/mo

per month · locked for 12 months · first ten churches only

  • Engage plan — 20 users, 200 organizations, web + mobile apps
  • Hands-on directory seeding & verification for your community
  • Live training for your staff and volunteers
  • A direct line to the founder — and a real say in the roadmap
  • Charter recognition as one of the Founding Ten
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A ministry-run platform,
not a vendor

CMinLink is a program of Bridgeway Community Initiatives, Inc., a North Carolina nonprofit — built by people who have staffed the benevolence desk, taught the Sunday School class, and watched referrals disappear into hope. We built the tool we needed.

AI in service of ministry

Never a replacement for it. The assistant listens and matches; your people decide, serve, and follow up. Human judgment stays in charge.

Crisis reaches humans first

Emergency language is detected before any AI responds. People in danger are pointed to 911 and 988 immediately — every time, no exceptions, and no setting can turn it off.

No church left out

Congregations that can’t afford software can apply for a Bridgeway-subsidized deployment. Ask us how.

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This Application Is Not for Emergencies

If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. For the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, call or text 988. CMinLink is for non-emergency community service referrals only.

Watch a referral close the loop — with your community’s services in it

Twenty minutes, your real scenarios, no slides. Bring the hardest “where do I even send them?” case your team has faced.

Prefer email? Write to us directly — a person answers, not a funnel.