The Complete System for Mastering Planning Center (Without the Trial-and-Error)
Everything you need to master every Planning Center product in days, not weeks with step-by-step training from experts who’ve been in your shoes.
Over thousands of church staff trained • Hundreds of churches transformed • 50+ years combined ministry experience
Learn the exact Planning Center strategies that saved our team 10+ hours per week. Built from the experience of working at one of America's largest multi-campus churches.
Course Features
75+ Video Lessons covering every Planning Center product—People, Services, Check-ins, Groups, Calendar, Registrations, and Publishing
14 Comprehensive Modules from beginner setup to advanced automation workflows and strategies that save hours every week
Exclusive Community Access where 300+ church leaders share wins, troubleshoot challenges, and get ongoing support
Downloadable Resources & Templates including setup checklists, workflow diagrams, and proven email templates
Self-Paced Learning
Complete in 4-8 weeks or go at your own speed with lifetime access
All Future Updates Included
Get new lessons and features as Planning Center evolves
The Results
✓ Save 10-15 hours per week on church administration
✓ Eliminate duplicate data entry and manual processes
✓ Empower your volunteers with confidence and clarity
✓ Create workflows that run on autopilot
✓ Keep your data clean, accurate, and actionable
Stop managing systems.
Start ministering to your people.
It’s Tuesday night and you’re up cleaning duplicate profiles again.
Your volunteers are confused about which check-in events to set up on the stations.
Your leaders are throwing hours of their week away from manually building service plans.
Not to mention you’re drowning in help articles and YouTube tutorials that each show you one feature—but never how it all fits together.
…Sound familiar?
Here’s the truth:
Planning Center is incredibly powerful, but without a proven system, you’re stuck in trial-and-error mode. You know there’s a better way—you’ve seen glimpses of what’s possible—but piecing it together yourself is exhausting.
The Planning Center Playbook changes everything. Instead of cobbling together random tutorials, you get the complete system:
✓ The right setup from day one
No more backtracking to fix foundational mistakes
✓ Battle-tested workflow set up
Proven in real churches from 100 to 10,000+ attendees
✓ Staff & volunteer training systems
Get your whole team on the same page fast
✓ Time-saving automations
Let Planning Center do the repetitive work for you
✓ Data hygiene strategies
Keep your database clean without manual maintenance
✓ Integration blueprints
Make all your church systems work seamlessly together
Playbook
Stop wasting nights and weekends fighting your church management system. Learn the proven approach that’s already working for 300+ churches.
"The Planning Center Playbook transformed how our team uses the platform. Instead of everyone doing their own thing, we now have consistent processes that actually work. Our volunteers feel connected, and our staff has hours back every week."
Joseph J. | Grace Landing Church
Master Planning Center Through Our Module System
Phase 1: Foundation & Administration
Build your Planning Center foundation with Confidence
In the Foundation Phase, you’ll master admin controls, permission structures, custom fields, background checks, and the Planning Center Home app. Learn how to set up your system architecture so it scales with your church’s growth.
Modules Covered:
Introduction
Admin & Manager Training
Planning Center Home App
Modules Covered:
People | Getting Started
People | Lists, Forms, & Workflows
Check-ins | Getting Started
Check-ins | Going Further
Registrations
Services
Services | Helping Volunteers
Groups
Groups | Group Leaders
Calendar
Phase 2: Core Products & Workflows
Implement the tools your ministry teams use daily
In this phase, you’ll deep-dive into People, Check-ins, Registrations, Services, Groups, and Calendar. Master lists, forms, workflows, scheduling, and automation features that keep your church organized.
Phase 3: Publishing & Community
Connect your congregation through digital channels.
In the final phase, you’ll learn Publishing (Church Center; your congregant portal and mobile app), plus get exclusive access to the Threefold Solutions Community, where you’ll connect with other church leaders implementing these same strategies.
Modules Covered:
Planning Center Publishing
Threefold Solutions Community Access
Start mastering all of Planning Center and learn the best practices for automating and streamlining your processes.
This course helps answer
How do I set up a Workflow?
What kind of data maintenance should I be doing?
How do you set up a first time guest process?
How do I automate milestone dates onto people's profiles
How do I set up a Workflow? What kind of data maintenance should I be doing? How do you set up a first time guest process? How do I automate milestone dates onto people's profiles
How should I train my group leaders?
How do I set up a volunteer check-in?
What request processes do churches use for events in Calendar?
How do we create a VBS signup?
What type of data maintenance lists should I create
How should I train my group leaders? How do I set up a volunteer check-in? What request processes do churches use for events in Calendar? How do we create a VBS signup? What type of data maintenance lists should I create
Michael Visser
Co-founder
Jason Silbernagel
Co-founder
Meet Your Instructors
We’ve spent over 30 years in ministry leadership at some of the largest churches in North America—including Gateway Church, where we managed Planning Center for 10 campuses and 300,000+ profiles.
We didn’t learn Planning Center from a manual. We learned it in the trenches, solving real problems for real ministry teams. The Planning Center Playbook is the training resource we wish we had when we started—a collection of every strategy, workflow, and best practice we’ve refined over years of implementation.
Now, through Threefold Solutions, we’ve helped hundreds of churches migrate to Planning Center and optimize their systems. We’ve seen what works and what doesn’t across every church size and context.
Our Experience Includes:
Managing 300K+ profiles across a 10-campus megachurch
Partnering with hundreds of churches in Planning Center migrations
Developing proven playbooks tested in real ministry environments
Training thousands of church staff and volunteers
Building custom integrations and workflows for complex ministries
The Planning Center Playbook isn’t theory—it’s the actual system we use with our consulting clients, now available to you.
Kind Words
Steve Hultquist
LifeBridge Christian Church
Matt Murphy
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Alaina Robers
First Baptist Church of Elkhart
The Threefold Solutions team supported us personally through our Planning Center migration, anticipating the real questions we would face along the way. As an added benefit, they compiled that expertise into a clear, well-organized, one-stop resource: The Planning Center Playbook! Their easy-to-navigate articles and bite-sized videos put a wealth of searchable knowledge at our team’s fingertips, making it simple to onboard, share, and learn at our own pace—without the "overwhelm" of long tutorials. This is an excellent tool to utilize if you're assimilating to all things Planning Center!
The Planning Center Playbook has been a game changer for our integration and daily Planning Center usage. The videos expand on the basics already available from Planning Center making us all feel like experts. The online community has been a great place to connect with other churches to share tips and tricks. The organization of the Playbook has made it so easy for us to plan our own internal training. Working with Threefold is like a breath of fresh air in the world of CRM implementation. Nothing beats working with real people with real expertise and the infinite patience to answer all of our questions.
The Planning Center Playbook has been incredibly helpful in day-to-day work with Planning Center. The short, focused videos go beyond the basics and show how Planning Center is actually used in real churches, which makes it easy to find quick, practical answers. I also really value the community around the Playbook — it’s a great place to ask questions and learn outside the Planning Center-owned spaces. Most of all, the Threefold team brings deep expertise, real-world experience, and a genuine desire to see others succeed. They’ve been a trusted resource.
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
We truly believe the frameworks, strategies and insights packed into this course are easily worth exponentially more than the price, but we’ve only priced it at only $999 to make these crucial insights accessible to church staff and leaders like you.
We are so confident in the value of this course that we are offering you a 30-day money back guarantee - if you don't feel you've gotten your money's worth, simply request a full refund within 30 days.
Michael Visser & Jason Silbernagel
Co-Founders
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