I’m Remi Shores — pastor, systems nerd, and the person who always ends up rebuilding the spreadsheet.

I’m an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). I’ve served as a solo pastor, on a multi-staff team, in a church plant, and at the regional and general denominational level. And everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve encountered the same thing: good people doing important work inside systems that were never designed to support them.

I’m constitutionally impatient with inefficiency — not with people, but with the structural friction that makes hard work harder. So I tend to show up, look around, and start rebuilding things. A better attendance tracker here. A cleaner onboarding process there. A workflow that actually reflects how the team works, instead of how someone imagined they might work ten years ago.

When AI started becoming genuinely useful, I got interested fast. Not because I think technology is the answer to everything — I have real concerns about its broader effects, especially on workers and jobs. But I’ve come to believe that the nonprofit and ministry world is a special case. We were never going to outsource our admin. We can’t afford to. So instead, we absorb it. It becomes everyone’s second job. It burns people out. It pulls pastors away from the work they’re actually called to, trained for, and passionate about.

That’s the problem I built Systems for Ministry to solve.

I’m a certified data analyst with experience building tracking systems, dashboards, and data workflows inside ministry contexts. I’m also the kind of person who will spend a weekend building a custom AI pipeline to automate a task that was taking three hours a week — and genuinely enjoy it.

Systems for Ministry is newly launched, and I’m keeping my early client list intentionally small. That means real attention, real investment, and pricing that reflects where I am in building this practice. If you’re curious whether I can help your team, the best first step is a conversation.