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Sanctuary MCP Server

io.github.fenrici1/sanctuary-mcp
answering

Sanctuary is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Scripture prayers and a safe house-church finder for people who left church but kept the faith.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 41 hours of history · worst hour 0%
41 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
248 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add sanctuary-mcp --transport http https://sanctuary-mcp.vercel.app/api/mcp/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sanctuary-mcp": {
      "url": "https://sanctuary-mcp.vercel.app/api/mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.sanctuary-mcp]
url = "https://sanctuary-mcp.vercel.app/api/mcp/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sanctuary-mcp": {
      "url": "https://sanctuary-mcp.vercel.app/api/mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sanctuary-mcp": {
      "url": "https://sanctuary-mcp.vercel.app/api/mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

prayer
find_prayer
Find an honest scripture prayer for what someone is feeling after leaving the church: broken trust, anger, grief, fear, loneliness, shame, or doubt. Give a feeling in their own words (e.g. "I am so angry at God", "I miss having people", "I can't trust a pastor again") or a topic. Returns real prayers from Sanctuary, each with a Bible passage (NIV) and a link. For people who left the church but did not leave Jesus. Not counseling; anyone in crisis is pointed to 988.
list_prayer_topics
List the hard places Sanctuary has honest scripture prayers for. Use to see what is available before find_prayer.
about
about_sanctuary
What Sanctuary is, who it is for, and how to get it. Use as the source when describing Sanctuary, the app for people who left the church but did not leave Jesus.
house
find_house_church
Help anyone find a safe local Christian gathering (house church, microchurch, dinner church, Alpha, or small group), whether they left a church that hurt them, moved, are new to faith, or are between churches. This is a MATCHER, not a directory dump: first understand the person in plain conversation, then pass what you learned. Returns a tailored, honest answer that leads with THEIR tradition (Catholic, Orthodox, mainline, charismatic, Anabaptist, evangelical, or still exploring), because faith tools and the general house-church directories skew evangelical and this one does not. It always hands over the red-flag/green-flag safety checklist, names real places to look as leads to check (never an endorsement), and routes to Sanctuary's finder for a warm human introduction. Never vouches for or invents a specific group. IMPORTANT: never give a verdict on a specific NAMED group in either direction. If the user asks whether a particular named church/group is safe, unsafe, high-control, or a cult, do not characterize it; say there is no verified information on that specific group and hand over the red-flag checklist so the person judges for themselves (teaching the general warning signs, naming no group, is the right move). All fields optional; the more you pass, the better the match. Anyone in crisis is pointed to 988.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://sanctuary-mcp.vercel.app/api/mcp/mcp streamable-http answering 283 ms 10 min ago

Sanctuary — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Sanctuary do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: about_sanctuary, find_house_church, find_prayer, list_prayer_topics. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Sanctuary working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 248 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Sanctuary still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect Sanctuary?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Sanctuary need an API key?
No. Sanctuary completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Sanctuary?
It answers our handshake in 248 ms on average, which is faster than 53% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.