Automating Safe Ministry compliance for Sydney Anglican churches — live safety checks, automated reporting, and zero admin burden for ministry teams.
SMX is a custom n8n automation system that connects Elvanto, Adminosaur, and ClickSend to deliver real-time Safe Ministry compliance monitoring and reporting for churches. It runs 24/7 on a self-hosted VPS.
- Eliminates administrative burden on volunteer ministry teams by fully automating Safe Ministry compliance checks, reporting, and notifications — freeing them to focus on pastoral care rather than paperwork.
- Delivers real-time safety monitoring with automated compliance scans every 5 minutes during services and instant SMS alerts to leaders when issues arise.
- Automates professional governance reporting — generates accurate weekly, monthly, and historical compliance reports with zero manual effort.
- Enhances emergency preparedness with instant SMS roll-call tools (“roll” and “evac”) and UPS-backed service continuity.
- Live 5-minute check-in monitoring with automated leader alerts
- Scheduled weekly/monthly compliance and issue reports
- Emergency SMS roll-call system
- Smart room resolution from Elvanto/Adminosaur groups
- Multi-channel notifications (SMS + email)
- Automation: n8n (main + sub-workflows)
- Scraping: Playwright (headless browser)
- Hosting: VPS (Ubuntu 24.04)
- Containerisation: Docker + Docker Compose + Traefik
- Integrations: ClickSend SMS, SMTP
This repository contains documentation and screenshots only. Full workflow exports and Docker setup are not public for security and IP reasons.
Interested in deploying SMX in your church? Contact me — I can provide the complete package and adaptation support.
Full user and maintainer guides are included (room mapping, adding/removing rooms, n8n structure, VPS/Docker maintenance, troubleshooting).
Paul — @sevasek
Built to help churches serve safely and efficiently.