Churches
Church websites that welcome first-time visitors.
A church website is mostly talking to two people: the returning member checking service times or a sermon link, and the first-time visitor who's nervous, in their car, trying to figure out what to wear and whether they can bring their kids. Everything on the site should serve one of those two people. We've built church and ministry sites that make it easy to plan a visit without ever calling the office.
What first-time visitors actually look for
Before a stranger walks in on a Sunday, they want to know: when does it start, where do I park, what should I wear, what happens to my kids, and how long will it last. That's the plan-a-visit block every church site needs on its homepage. Not the mission statement. Not the doctrinal distinctives. Those have their pages — but they're not what the first-time visitor needs at the moment they're deciding to come.
We put that block in every church site we build, usually as a short "Plan Your Visit" section near the top, with photos of the building exterior (so they can find it), the kids' area (so they can see it's safe and clean), and the service itself (so they know what the vibe is).
Live integrations we've built for churches
Our church stack includes a custom WordPress plugin that pulls events and small groups from Planning Center's Church Center API — so the public site always matches what the staff manages internally, with no double-entry. We also wire up automatic YouTube livestream detection so a first-time visitor who lands on the site during a service sees a "watch live" button front and center. When the service isn't live, the same spot shows the most recent sermon.
We've built and hosted multiple ministry sites using this pattern, plus the SaaS site for ChurchInviter (a postcard and social-media invite tool used by churches nationwide), so the church-tech stack — Planning Center, Subsplash, Pushpay, Church Center, livestream integrations, sermon archives — is familiar territory.
Sermons and the stuff that changes weekly
The weekly-update problem is where most church websites go wrong. A volunteer posts a sermon on Sunday, a volunteer posts this week's announcement on Tuesday, a volunteer updates the kids' calendar on Thursday — and if any of those require a developer or a paid plugin license, they stop happening. Then the site goes stale, and the first-time visitor sees a homepage featuring a sermon from last August.
The fix is to wire the site up to tools the church already uses. YouTube for sermons (auto-pulled). Planning Center for events and groups (auto-pulled). A simple WordPress editor for announcements (any volunteer can manage it). When the weekly updates are frictionless, they actually happen.
Recent work
Live sites we've built lately
A sample from the portfolio. Every one of these is a site we designed, built, or are actively maintaining today.
First Baptist Camdenton ↗
Church website with live Planning Center integration, YouTube livestream auto-detection, raw-HTML editor for staff.
ChurchInviter ↗
SaaS product marketing site for a church-outreach tool. Multi-page content pattern served via custom raw-HTML plugin.
Faith at Home Ministries ↗
Ministry site with sermon/resource archive and donor pages. WordPress with a custom publishing workflow.
eCardWidget ↗
SaaS marketing site with 58+ product pages. Custom theme, raw-HTML editor plugin, custom showcase shortcodes.
FAQ
Common questions
We have volunteers running our site — can they update it?
Yes. Every church site we build is set up so a volunteer with basic computer skills can add announcements, edit pages, and manage events without calling us. We walk the point person through it after launch.
Do you integrate with Planning Center?
Yes. We built a custom WordPress plugin that pulls events and small groups from the Church Center API, so the public site always matches what's in Planning Center. It's been running in production on multiple church sites.
What about livestream?
If you stream to YouTube, we wire up automatic detection so the homepage shows a "watch live" button when a service is actually live. When it's not live, it shows the most recent sermon. No manual updating required.
We're a small church — is a custom site overkill?
Sometimes. For a small congregation, a well-built WordPress site with good content often matters more than a custom platform. We'll tell you honestly which side of the line you're on before quoting anything.
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