AI Receptionist for Clergy + Immigrant Churches + Spiritual-Care Practitioners

Built for you. Korean Presbyterian (Flushing, LA, Atlanta), Chinese Baptist + Mandarin / Cantonese fellowships, Vietnamese Catholic, Hispanic Pentecostal + Catholic, Arab Maronite + Coptic + Antiochian Orthodox, African Pentecostal + AME — all first-class supported. Set your Korean voice (JiYoung / Taemin / Hyun Bin), your Spanish (Eduardo / Valeria), your Mandarin (JinChan / Wei) etc. in Settings → Voice per language. The AI handles 1.5-gen code-switching mid-sentence ('어머니가 said to call you about the funeral'). Korean funerals are 3 days (삼일장) — the AI knows this and switches decorum on funeral-context signals.

Yes. Safety.ts rule 11e routes ICE / immigration arrest / detention calls IMMEDIATELY: hands the caller the National Immigrant Justice Center hotline (1-844-363-1423), points to the ICE detainee locator (locator.ice.gov by full legal name + country of birth + A-number if known), and urgent-pages the pastor / on-call immigration-legal-referral contact regardless of after-hours rules. The AI never offers legal advice (UPL); it routes to NIJC + your on-call attorney. Critical for sanctuary churches + immigrant congregations.

No, and we don't pretend otherwise. NY CPLR §4505 is narrower than Cal. Evid. Code §1030-1034, and NY Social Services Law §413 has a limited clergy carve-out for child-abuse reporting. The AI does NOT promise blanket confidentiality on every call (state-law limits apply); it captures the conversation under privilege and routes to you for human judgment on state-specific exemptions. We strongly recommend you consult a state-specific attorney before relying on the privilege for mandated-reporter exemptions.

Yes — the AI knows: Korean funerals (삼일장) 3 days; Vietnamese funerals (đám tang) include 49-day observance; Mexican Catholic includes novena 9 days; Jewish shiva 7 days; Muslim janazah within 24 hours. Funeral context triggers the death-care decorum (safety.ts rule 11c) — quiet tone, no booking-flow, urgent pastor page. Wedding inquiries get festive tone. The AI never confuses these.

No — not for non-life-threatening symptoms in a documented Christian Science practice. The AI's safety prompts default to 911 / 988 for objectively life-threatening situations (active suicide risk, possible overdose, stroke FAST symptoms, active hemorrhage, anaphylaxis) AND for explicit caller requests ("please call 911 for me"). For ambiguous cases ("my child has a fever, please pray") in a documented CSP practice with religious-exemption noted in your knowledge base, the AI captures the request as a healing-prayer intake and pages you, while still offering 911 as an option the caller can elect. Critical hard line: "I have a plan to end my life" → 988 regardless of religion, because that's the right answer for that specific message.

Privilege is preserved if the communication is confidential. Our recording-disclosure on every call (per CA SB 1001) notifies the caller that the call may be recorded — at that point continued participation implies consent, but legally this differs from a strictly unrecorded pastoral conversation. For CSPs / clergy who prefer NO recording: toggle "Pastoral-care confidentiality mode" in Settings → Privacy (when shipped) which disables audio retention, retains only summary metadata, and disables the recording-disclosure preamble. Until that ships, you can request a non-recording configuration via hello@ringdispatch.com — we configure your tenant manually.

Cal. Penal Code §11165.2(b) carves out spiritual treatment in lieu of medical care from "general neglect" reporting under narrow conditions: the practitioner must be a recognized member of a recognized religious organization (CSPs in the Christian Science Journal qualify) AND the treatment must be the parent's good-faith religious decision. The AI does NOT make legal determinations about whether this exemption applies to a specific case — that's a legal question for your church's counsel. The AI will follow your knowledge-base instructions: if you've documented "my practice falls under §11165.2(b)", the AI will not auto-report. We strongly recommend you have a state-specific attorney confirm the exemption applies before relying on it.

List your accepted insurance programs (FEHB blue-collar + white-collar tiers, TRICARE Supplemental, state Medicaid where applicable) and your billable CPT codes (CSP treatment-day codes vary by carrier). The AI quotes accurately to callers asking about insurance + captures member ID (without reading it back over recorded line per HIPAA-adjacent privacy).

Yes. The clergy-penitent privilege framework + religious-treatment-aware intake apply to all recognized religious practitioners. List your tradition + your scope-of-practice in onboarding + the AI tunes accordingly. Confidentiality + identity-non-confirmation rules are the same across traditions.