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Sanctuary MCP Server

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Sanctuary is answering right now. Last checked moments 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 48 days of history · worst day 67%
48 days agonow
97.8%
Uptime 24h
90 of 92 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
263 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 8

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 18 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

18 Sep 2 tools appeared describe_sanctuary, get_house_church_guide
18 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten find_prayer, list_prayer_topics
18 Sep 2 tools disappeared about_sanctuary, find_house_church
18 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for find_prayer
18 Sep a tool changed version

Sanctuary does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.1% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 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
Looks up scripture prayers in Sanctuary's library (185 prayers in seven topics: betrayal, anger, grief, fear & anxiety, loneliness, shame, doubt) for what a person is feeling. Use when the user asks for a prayer, a Bible passage to pray, or words for a feeling, especially in the context of leaving a church or struggling with faith. Input: the feeling in the user's own words and/or one of the seven topics. Output: up to four prayers, each with its Bible passage (NIV), the prayer text, and a link to that prayer on godismysanctuary.com. If the feeling matches no topic, it returns the list of topics instead. If the text describes suicide or self-harm, it returns crisis resources (988 and Crisis Text Line) instead of a prayer. Sanctuary is not counseling or a crisis service.
list_prayer_topics
Lists the seven topics Sanctuary's prayer library is organized by, each with a one-line description and a link to that topic's page on godismysanctuary.com. Use when the user asks what kinds of prayers Sanctuary has or which topics it covers, or to see the valid topic values before calling find_prayer. Takes no input.
describe
describe_sanctuary
Returns a short description of Sanctuary: what it is (a free faith companion app and prayer library for people who left the church but did not leave Jesus), who it is for and not for, that it is free on iOS and Android with links to both store listings, the size of the prayer library, who runs it (International Bible Ministries, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with technology by WiscAI), and the crisis resources it points people to. Use when the user asks what Sanctuary is, who made it, whether it is free, or how to get the app. Takes no input.
house
get_house_church_guide
Writes a guide to finding a house church, microchurch, dinner church, Alpha course, or church small group to join or start, tailored to what the user has shared. Use when the user asks for help finding a Christian gathering or community, whether after leaving a church, moving, coming to faith, or being between churches. Inputs, all optional: area, faith tradition, life stage, in-person or online, what they want to avoid, and whether they want to join or start a group. Output: where people from that tradition typically look (for example parish groups, denominational networks, house-church directories, Alpha), a checklist of warning signs of high-control groups and signs of a healthy one, and a link to Sanctuary's finder page, where a person can ask for an introduction. It does not search a database of groups, does not return specific groups, addresses, or contact details, and does not assess or comment on any named church or group. If any field describes suicide or self-harm, it returns crisis resources (988 and Crisis Text Line) instead.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

about_sanctuary
removed 18 Sep 2026
find_house_church
removed 18 Sep 2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://sanctuary-mcp.vercel.app/api/mcp/mcp streamable-http answering 222 ms 0 min ago

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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: describe_sanctuary, find_prayer, get_house_church_guide, 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 90 of 92 checks got a reply (97.8%), average response time 263 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Sanctuary ever remove tools?
Yes. about_sanctuary, find_house_church are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
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 263 ms on average, which is faster than 56% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.