Help center

How can we help you ponder?

Practical guides for parents, group leaders, kids ministry, pastors, and the curious.

Getting started

New to Ponder? Start here.

For parents

Bedtime devotionals & dinner conversations.

For group leaders

Discussion guides for your weekly meeting.

For kids ministry

Sunday school lessons & memory verses.

For pastors

Setting Ponder up across your whole church.

Translations & theology

How we respect your tradition.

Account & billing

Plans, payments, and privacy.

Getting started

New to Ponder? Start here.

Get started with Ponder

The shortest path from a sermon to a reviewed devotional, group guide, classroom lesson, or personal plan.

How Ponder works, in five minutes

A quick orientation to generation, audiences, and what comes out at the end.

Pondering your first sermon

A 5-minute walkthrough of generating your first output, end to end.

Choose the right audience

How to decide between Parent, Group Leader, Children's Educator, Youth Educator, and Individual outputs.

Use a YouTube URL, audio file, or manuscript

Which sermon input to choose, what works best, and what to do when a transcript is not available.

Save outputs, find your library, and export a PDF

How to return to a generated draft, print it, or carry it into a meeting.

For parents

Bedtime devotionals & dinner conversations.

Adding child profiles for personalized devotionals

How ages, names, and personalities shape what gets generated.

Choosing the right tone for younger vs. older kids

A quick guide to age-tuning your output without losing the substance.

For group leaders

Discussion guides for your weekly meeting.

Prep view vs. Meeting view

Why your group leader output has two modes, and when to use each.

Why we generate three kinds of questions

Observation, interpretation, application: why the order matters.

For kids ministry

Sunday school lessons & memory verses.

Preparing for a Sunday morning class with your Ponder lesson plan

A practical checklist for the night before and the morning of.

Why every memory verse comes with a motion

How children memorize through their bodies, and how to teach the motion.

Using Ponder with middle and high school students

How Youth Educator output helps teens discuss, question, apply, and pray from the sermon.

For pastors

Setting Ponder up across your whole church.

Setting up Ponder for your church

Branding, theology presets, and inviting your leaders.

Invite leaders on a Church plan

How pastors and ministry leaders can invite group leaders, kids teachers, youth leaders, and volunteers.

Reading the pastor dashboard

What the numbers tell you, what they do not, and what privacy means here.

Translations & theology

How we respect your tradition.

Review before using an AI-assisted draft

A practical review checklist for doctrine, scripture, tone, age fit, and pastoral care.

Translations and traditions we support

The full list, what changes between them, and how to set defaults.

Our doctrinal guardrails

How we guard against generation outside historic Christian orthodoxy.

Account & billing

Plans, payments, and privacy.

Billing, plans, and switching tiers

How to upgrade, downgrade, and what happens to your library.

Cancelling your subscription

How to cancel, what you keep, and how to come back later.

Your data, your sermons, your privacy

What we store, what we do not, and what your pastor can see.

Troubleshooting a generation that did not finish

What to try when transcription, generation, scripture verification, or export fails.

Support with screenshots

See the screens the articles refer to.

These actual screenshots help new users connect the help articles to the app screens they will use.

Ponder actual onboarding screen showing persona choices for parents, group leaders, kids ministry, youth ministry, individuals, and pastors. — Choose the setting
Actual onboarding screen where a user starts by naming the discipleship setting.

Ponder actual help center screen showing searchable support categories for parents, group leaders, kids ministry, pastors, and theology. — Find practical help
Actual help center screen with searchable support before and after a first sermon.

Ponder actual pricing screen showing Free, Individual, and Church plans. — Pick the right plan
Actual pricing screen showing the free start, individual plan, and church plan.

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