A website your church can run.
Built by one developer, start to finish. Designed around how your church works week to week, not a template you have to work around.
Most small-church websites look like they were built in 2006. For the ones that don’t, the design alone is the battle, and making the site actually usable every week is barely a consideration.
This is built the other way around. The admin comes first, the design fits the church, and you’re working with a real person, not a template.
What’s included.
The site
Sermons archive, events calendar, ministries, announcements, blog. Mobile-fast, secure, no plugins to maintain.
The admin
Built around how church staff actually works. Service times, scripture pickers, recurrence rules, sermon embeds. Simple enough to keep current yourself.
Already on Planning Center?
A lot of churches keep their events, groups, and calendars in Planning Center. If yours does, I wire your site directly into it. The schedule your staff already maintains shows up on the website on its own, so nothing gets entered twice.
If you don’t use Planning Center, nothing changes. The built-in admin handles events, sermons, and the rest on its own.
This new site makes it easier to post new updates and pictures. On my old site, I had to rearrange a page or create a new one in order to accommodate new material.
Pricing.
Website build
Starting at $3,500Custom design, development, content setup, and training. Built around your church.
Monthly hosting & support
Starting at $75/monthHosting, security updates, backups, and small ongoing updates.
Additional work
Starting at $100/hourFor changes beyond small monthly updates: new pages, new features, custom integrations.
Common questions.
- How long does it take to build?
- Faster than building from scratch, slower than dropping a Squarespace template. Most of the time goes into your content and how your staff posts updates, not the architecture, which is already proven.
- Do we own the code?
- Yes, in the practical sense that matters: you can move the site to another developer or take it in-house whenever you want. Nothing is locked behind a proprietary platform.
- What does the monthly fee cover?
- Hosting, SSL, security updates, automatic backups, and small ongoing updates. Things that take a few minutes: a new announcement, an updated photo, fixing a typo. Anything bigger goes through the hourly rate.
- Can our staff edit the site without a developer?
- Yes. Everything in the day-to-day workflow: sermons, events, announcements, ministry pages, blog posts. The admin is built around how church staff actually thinks about its own week. Bigger structural changes (a new page type, a new integration) come back to me.
- We use Planning Center. Can the site connect to it?
- Yes. If your church keeps events, groups, or calendars in Planning Center, I build that connection into your site, so what your staff schedules there shows up on the site without anyone re-entering it. If you don’t use Planning Center, the site’s own admin covers all of it.
- Can you migrate our existing content?
- Most likely, yes. I can pull content from most platforms (WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, static sites). If your current site is unusual, we'll talk it through up front. Migration is part of the build, not a separate line item.
- What happens if we want to add something new later?
- Small updates are included. Larger additions (new sections, new features, custom integrations) are billed at $100/hour or as a fixed-price scope. No retainers, no minimums.
Interested? Let’s talk.
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