1Alpha gives your house of worship the tools to manage your community, deliver devotionals to every phone, run bible studies and lesson plans, manage tithing, and launch your own branded church app. All powered by Echelon's education engine and backed by a free website from Merchant Kings.
Echelon Institute is Arrowhead Advisory Group's white-label education platform, purpose-built to deliver training, credentialing, and content at scale. For faith communities, Echelon powers everything from daily devotionals and bible study to children's ministry curriculum and small group programs. Your congregation experiences it entirely under your brand. Echelon is the engine. Your community never sees the name.
Imagine your congregation waking up to a daily scripture, a reflection from your pastor, or a guided prayer, delivered right to their phone under your church's brand. That is what 1Alpha and Echelon make possible.
Schedule daily scripture readings, pastoral reflections, prayer prompts, and inspirational messages. Delivered to your congregation's phones every morning. White-labeled under your church name.
Build interactive bible study courses with reading assignments, discussion questions, video teachings, and group activities. Your congregation follows along at their own pace or in sync with weekly services.
Upload and organize your sermon archive. Link to YouTube videos, podcast episodes, blog posts, and downloadable study guides. Your entire teaching history searchable and accessible.
Age-appropriate lesson plans, activity sheets, memory verses, and parent take-home guides. Sunday school curriculum delivered digitally so families can reinforce at home.
Structured small group studies with weekly readings, discussion guides, and facilitator notes. Track participation and completion across all groups in your church.
Connect your YouTube channel, podcast feed, blog, and social media into one unified media hub your congregation can access from their phone. Everything in one place.
Your education content, devotionals, and congregation tools live in your Echelon dashboard.
Upload your own sermons, devotionals, bible study materials, and lesson plans. Use Echelon's education engine to organize, schedule, and deliver them to your congregation. The platform is free. The content is yours. Access your content library anytime through your Echelon dashboard.
Included with every 1Alpha faith account at no cost.
Access pre-built devotional content, bible reading plans, topical study series, and seasonal curriculum. Professionally written and ready to white-label. Your church, your brand, content that is ready to go on day one.
Available with Growth and Enterprise plans.
Beyond Sunday. Beyond the building. Tools that keep your community close and cared for, wherever they are.
Members reach out to pastoral staff directly from the app. Confidential in-platform messaging for spiritual guidance, counseling requests, and personal matters. Messages are visible only to designated pastoral staff. No message content is shared externally or used for marketing.
Members submit prayer requests that the community can see and pray over together. Public or anonymous. The congregation rallies around each other in real time. A prayer wall that never closes.
A private social feed for your community. Share updates, celebrations, volunteer needs, and encouragements. Think of it as your church's own social network, without the noise of the internet.
Beyond devotionals and community tools, 1Alpha handles the operational side of running a faith-based organization.
Congregation directory, family units, contact info, attendance tracking, and member engagement.
Online giving, recurring tithes, pledge tracking, and year-end tax statements. Transparent and easy for givers.
Service schedules, special events, volunteer sign-ups, room bookings, and community outreach coordination.
Financial reporting, governance tracking, and IRS Form 990 preparation support for your 501(c)(3) status.
As part of our commitment to faith-based organizations, Merchant Kings, a wholly owned portfolio company of Arrowhead Advisory Group, will design and build your website for your congregation at no cost to you. Professional design, mobile responsive, and maintained for you.
To participate in the free website program, your organization processes donation and payment transactions through 0030 Payments, Arrowhead's bank-sponsored payment platform. Interchange-plus pricing. No hidden fees. Learn more about 0030 →
Built on a professionally designed, mobile-ready foundation and fully customized to reflect your organization's identity, mission, and community. Your brand. Your colors. Your content.
Responsive on every device. Your congregation accesses it from phones, tablets, and desktops. Looks great everywhere.
Hosting covered by 1Alpha. Updates and ongoing support from Merchant Kings. Your team focuses on ministry. We handle the technology.
Merchant Kings and Echelon Institute are Arrowhead Advisory Group portfolio companies
Free website design, free education platform, and free nonprofit management. For the organizations that give the most, we give back everything we can.
Join the Waitlist1Alpha serves all faith traditions. The platform adapts to your community's practices, language, and needs.
Bible devotionals, sermon libraries, Sunday school, small groups, tithing.
Daily readings, sacrament prep, religious education, parish management.
Torah study, holiday observances, Hebrew school, community engagement.
Quran study, daily prayer reminders, Islamic education, community programs.
Scripture study, festival coordination, community education, donor management.
Meditation guides, dharma teachings, retreat coordination, sangha management.
Gurbani study, langar coordination, community services, education programs.
Multi-tradition education, community building, shared service projects, dialogue programs.