Roku / faith_based / GRACE FELLOWSHIP MI
REVIEW
Grace Fellowship MI brings a single Michigan congregation to the living-room TV.
A small church's Roku channel built on Subsplash's template — narrow on purpose, faithful to the people it serves, and welcome on a screen the family already gathers around.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Grace Fellowship MI
SUBSPLASH, INC.
OUR SCORE
7.0
ROKU
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
Most Roku channels are made for everyone. This one is made for the few hundred people who attend a specific congregation in Michigan, and that is the right scope. App Comrade reviews channels at every size of audience, and a parish-scale channel deserves a parish-scale judgement: does the thing serve the people it was built for?
Grace Fellowship MI is a Subsplash-built Roku channel — the same template that powers a long tail of small-church channels across the Roku store. The interface is generic on purpose. What is not generic is the content: a single church’s sermons, livestreams, and audio, addressed to a single congregation, delivered to the TV the family already watches together on Sunday morning when they cannot make the drive.
The honest version of this review is short. The channel does one thing for one community, and it does that thing without getting in anyone’s way.
A Sunday service plays well on a TV the household already sits in front of together — that is the whole pitch, and it is enough.
FEATURES
The channel publishes Grace Fellowship MI's sermon archive and recent livestreams to Roku as on-demand video, organized in a single vertical list. There is no search, no profile, no account login — the Roku remote's directional pad scrolls, the OK button plays, and that is the whole interface.
It is built on Subsplash, the church-media platform that publishes hundreds of small-congregation Roku channels with the same shell. That means a consistent video player, reasonable startup time, and a thumbnail grid pulled from whatever the church uploads through Subsplash's admin tools. Free to install, no in-app purchases, no ads.
Audio plays alongside video — the same sermon catalogue is available without staring at the screen, which matters more on a TV channel than the Subsplash template gets credit for.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The channel succeeds at the only thing it sets out to do: deliver Grace Fellowship MI's Sunday services to a household TV without making someone hunt for them. For an older congregant who would never sideload an APK or wrestle with a YouTube link from a sermon email, this is the difference between watching the service and not.
Free, no ads, no upsell. The church is paying Subsplash so the parishioner doesn't have to think about distribution. That is the correct shape for a local-church channel and it is exactly what this one delivers.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
This is a Subsplash channel, which means the chrome is generic and the channel is functionally indistinguishable from a few hundred other small-church channels on the Roku store. There is no congregation-specific landing experience, no service bulletin, no giving integration on-screen, no upcoming-service schedule. A first-time visitor scrolling the Roku store has no way to tell whether this is their church's channel or another Grace Fellowship's.
No closed captioning toggle exposed at the channel level, and the screenshot set in the store listing is generic enough that the channel does not advertise itself well on its own listing page.
CONCLUSION
Grace Fellowship MI's Roku channel is a parish utility, not a broadcast product, and judging it by broadcast standards misses the point. If you attend this church and own a Roku, install it on the family TV and stop reading. If you don't, this isn't the channel you're looking for — but the developer template behind it is doing quiet, useful work for small congregations across the country.