Planning Center Integration
Connect your Planning Center account to keep your Teach Us the Bible team automatically in sync — and pull scheduled volunteers directly into your teacher emails.
The Planning Center integration gives you two distinct capabilities:
The integration is read-only — Teach Us the Bible reads your Planning Center data but never writes anything back to it.
Go to Ministry Settings
Navigate to Settings → Ministry Settings and scroll to the Planning Center section.
Click "Connect to Planning Center"
You'll be redirected to Planning Center's OAuth login page. Sign in with your Planning Center account credentials.
[Screenshot: Ministry Settings — Planning Center section with Connect button]
Authorize access
Planning Center will ask you to authorize Teach Us the Bible to read your Services and People data. Click Allow Access. You'll be redirected back to Ministry Settings with a confirmation that the connection is active.
You're connected
The Import from Planning Center button now appears on the Email Teachers page.
The email import is separate from Auto-Sync Teams. Rather than provisioning accounts, it pulls the specific team scheduled for a single plan into the Email Teachers recipient list — useful when you want to target exactly who's serving this week.
Open the import dialog
On the Email Teachers page, click Import from Planning Center.
Select your service type and plan
Choose the service type (e.g. "Kids Ministry"), then select the specific plan (week) you want to pull team members from.
[Screenshot: PC import modal — service type dropdown and plan dropdown]
Select team members
Team members are grouped by service time and team. Check the people you want to email — all are pre-selected by default. Use Select All / Select None buttons per time or per team to adjust quickly.
Click Import
Selected people are added to the recipient list on the Email Teachers page. If someone's email already exists in your TUTB teacher list, that checkbox is checked instead of adding a duplicate.
Auto-Sync Teams is the hands-off way to keep your TUTB roster current. Instead of manually adding teachers one by one, you tell TUTB which Planning Center teams map to your teaching staff — and it handles the rest.
Go to Ministry Settings → Planning Center section
After connecting, you'll see an Auto-Sync Teams section with an Add Sync Team button.
[Screenshot: Auto-Sync Teams section in Ministry Settings showing Add Sync Team button and existing synced teams]
Select a service type and team
The dialog loads your Planning Center service types. Select one, then choose the team within that service type whose members should be synced into TUTB.
[Screenshot: Add Sync Team modal — service type dropdown and team list]
Save and sync
Save the team. It now appears in your synced teams list. Click Sync Now to run an immediate sync — or wait for the next automatic sync to pick up new team members.
Click the button next to any team in the Auto-Sync Teams list to remove it. Removing a team stops future syncs for that team — existing TUTB accounts created via that team are not deleted.
Below the sync teams list, you'll see the last 10 sync runs. Each entry shows:
To disconnect Planning Center, go to Settings → Ministry Settings and click Disconnect Planning Center. The Import button will disappear from Email Teachers. You can reconnect at any time.
The import shows no people for a plan
This usually means the plan's team hasn't been scheduled in Planning Center yet, or team members have been assigned at the service-type level rather than the individual plan level. Make sure team members are assigned to the specific plan you're selecting, not just to the service type.
I get an error when I try to connect
Make sure you're logged into Planning Center with an account that has Administrator access to your organization. If the problem persists, try disconnecting and reconnecting, or email support@teachusthebible.com.