About Church Vitals

Built by a pastor who got tired of spreadsheets

I'm Donnell Wyche — Senior Pastor at Ann Arbor Community Church, where I've served since 1999 and was ordained in 2004. I grew up in Washington, DC, earned my B.A. in Computer Science from The College of Wooster, and started my career as a Solution Architect at IBM before answering the call to full-time ministry.

For over 25 years, I've walked alongside congregants through hospital visits, grief, celebration, and everything in between. I've also built technology tools for ministry — including CareNote (pastoral care management), Prayetic (guided prayer meditation), and Directee (practice management for spiritual directors).

Church Vitals brings both worlds together: a pastor who understands the weight of leading a church, and an engineer who can build the tools to help carry that weight.

Donnell Wyche, founder of Church Vitals

Why I built Church Vitals

After 25 years of pastoral ministry, I've lived the same frustration that every church leader knows: your data is scattered across a dozen systems and none of them talk to each other.

Attendance lives in Planning Center. Giving is in a separate platform. YouTube analytics are on YouTube. Pastoral care is in CareNote. Website traffic is in Google Analytics. And somewhere, there's a spreadsheet someone made three years ago that everyone references but nobody updates.

I kept asking the same question: "How is our church actually doing?" And every time, the answer required hours of pulling reports from five different systems and trying to make sense of it all.

Church Vitals is the tool I wish had existed. It connects all your church systems into one unified intelligence platform — not just dashboards, but real insights that help you see your church clearly and act decisively.

Digital Lighthouse Designs

Church Vitals is a product of Digital Lighthouse Designs, LLC, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We build software for ministry — tools that help churches, pastors, and spiritual leaders do what they do best: serve people.

Our family of products includes:

  • Church Vitals — Church intelligence that unifies your data into actionable insights
  • CareNote — Pastoral care management for churches and care teams
  • Prayetic — Guided prayer and meditation
  • Directee — Practice management for spiritual directors

Every product we build comes from the same place: lived experience in ministry and a belief that technology should serve the mission, not complicate it.

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