Service times up top
Times, address, and which door to use — in real text, above the fold, on the smallest phone you own. Not inside an image, so search engines can read it too.
Churches & Ministries
Church Website Design
For The Charlotte Metro
Most of the people opening your website this week are not members. They are someone who moved to Fort Mill in March, or someone having the worst month of their life at eleven at night. We build the site that answers them.
The Actual Job
Three questions,
asked on a phone.
A church website has one visitor who matters more than all the others: the person who is not sure they belong. They are not browsing. They are checking something before they risk a Sunday morning, and they are doing it one-handed, at night, on a phone.
They came to answer three things:
- When do you meet? Not the events calendar — this week's times, in text, without scrolling.
- Where do I go and where do I park? Including which door, because that is the part people are actually nervous about.
- What happens when I walk in? How long it lasts, what people wear, and where the kids go.
Most church sites bury all three under a rotating hero image and a calendar that stopped being updated in spring. That is not a design problem so much as a priority problem, and it is the first thing we fix.
What's In Every Church Site
Built for the people
who haven't come yet.
A real "I'm new here" page
One honest page that says how long the service runs, what people actually wear, what happens with children, and what you will not do to a visitor.
Giving in two taps
Wired to whatever platform you already use — we are not asking you to switch. Reachable from the home page without an app, an account, or a pinch-zoom.
A sermon archive worth having
Searchable by title, speaker and series, embedded from YouTube so it costs you no hosting, and easy enough to update that it stays current.
Events people can trust
Simple enough that whoever is doing it can keep it accurate. An out-of-date calendar does more damage than no calendar at all.
Staff, with faces
Names, roles and photographs of the people someone will meet. It is the cheapest trust you can put on a page and most church sites skip it.
What Nobody Else Offers You
We already do
the sermon side.
Every week we take a full worship service recording for a local church, find where the message starts and ends, cut it out, write the title and description, and publish it to their YouTube channel. The same recording gets cut down into short vertical clips and posted to Facebook and Instagram. It runs on a schedule, and it is largely automated.
That matters here for a plain reason: a sermon archive is only worth building if something keeps feeding it. Most church websites launch with a beautiful media page that has four sermons on it, and four sermons is what it still has two years later — because uploading, titling, describing and embedding a video every Monday is a job nobody volunteered for.
We can build your site so the archive fills itself from the channel, and we can run the weekly publishing for you as well. Or we can build the site and hand you the process written down. Your call, and it does not change the price of the site.
We are describing work we do every week for a church in this area rather than naming them, because that is their call to make and not ours. Ask on a call and we will happily walk you through exactly how the pipeline runs, end to end.
On naming clients
Sunday
The service is recorded however you already record it. Nothing about your setup has to change.
Monday
The message is located in the recording and cut out cleanly — no thirty minutes of announcements and welcome in front of it.
Monday, still
Title, description and thumbnail are written, and it goes up on your YouTube channel. Your site's sermon page picks it up on its own.
Through the week
The strongest two or three minutes get cut into vertical clips for Facebook and Instagram, which is where people who have never been to your church will actually see you.
How Churches Decide
Written for a board,
not for one buyer.
A business owner decides on a Tuesday. A church decides at a meeting, three weeks later, from a printed page, after someone who was not on the call asks what happens if it does not work out. We price and document accordingly.
- $500 flat, quoted in writing. One number for the whole build, agreed before anything starts. Nothing added later.
- A free evaluation first. We look at what you have now and tell you plainly what is worth doing — including if the answer is "less than you think".
- A design preview before any money changes hands. A real piece of your actual homepage, so the meeting is looking at something instead of imagining it.
- Printable. The proposal and this page both print cleanly, because someone always brings paper to the meeting.
- No monthly contract. No subscription you can never get out of, and no platform that holds the site hostage.
- The church owns everything. Domain, files, logins, and the YouTube channel. All of it in the church's name from day one, not ours.
Questions
Questions churches
ask us first.
Do you only work with churches of a certain size or denomination?
No. We have built for and worked with small congregations, and the site we build does not assume a media team, a full-time office, or anyone with a design background. If one volunteer has to keep it current, we build it so one volunteer can.
Can you connect the giving platform we already use?
Yes, and we would rather you keep it. Tithe.ly, Pushpay, Givelify, Planning Center, a Subsplash page, or a plain PayPal link all work the same way from the site's point of view. Switching platforms is a separate decision and not one we need you to make to build the site.
How does the sermon archive stay up to date?
The site pulls from your YouTube channel, so anything published there appears on the sermon page without anybody touching the website. If you would like us to handle the weekly publishing too — pulling the message out of the service recording, writing the title and description, and posting it — we already run that process every week and can run it for you.
We have almost no budget. Is $500 really the whole cost?
That is the whole build. What sits outside it is the domain name, which runs about fifteen dollars a year and stays in the church's own account, and hosting, which for a site this size is usually free or close to it. We will show you both numbers in the evaluation rather than surprising you at the end.
Who owns the site when it is finished?
The church does — completely. The domain, the files, the hosting login and the YouTube channel are all in the church's name from the start. If you decide in a year to have someone else take it over, everything they need hands across in an afternoon and nothing has to be rebuilt.
Can we see something before the committee has to vote?
That is exactly what the free design preview is for. We design a real section of your actual homepage before you have paid anything, so the meeting is looking at a real page with your name on it rather than a description of one.
Start The Conversation
Let's look at your church website.
Tell us about your church and we'll design a real piece of your new homepage — free, and yours to take to the board whether or not you go ahead with us.
Reply within one business day
A real person, not an automatic reply.
Fixed pricing, quoted up front
You'll know the full number before we start.
No sales call unless you want one
Happy to keep the whole thing over email if that's easier.
Request received.
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