Why does my church need a website?
To state your presence
Make the existence of your congregation known to the search engine, online maps, and church directories.
Introduce yourself to visitors
Before anyone comes to visit your church they would like to know who you are, what you believe in, and what to expect when they join you for worship.
Serve your Congregation
Provide resources like sermon audio or video, calendar, and blog articles that would strengthen the faith and the bond of your local church
What Features are commonly found on a church website?
Location and Worship times
Contact Information
Statement on Faith
Denomination and Affiliation
Leadership
Sermon Library
History
Information about Sunday Worship
Weekly schedule, classes, Bible Studies
Ministries and offerings
Bible Resources and blog
Donation Form
Building your Church Website with WP Help 360
The process of building a new site for your church can be a joyful and exciting experience. It has been broken down into simple steps that make the process smooth and easy to follow. Completing the steps will provide your congregation with a clean, functional, simple, and healthy starter website. You will be able to continue adding content and features to it as time goes by. A website as a project is never finished. There is always a need for updates, changes, refreshes. Rest assured, you will have my support for these as well.
- The Church purchases a domain name and WordPress hosting plan. There are many great providers with affordable rates available like Bluehost.com or GoDaddy.com. If you already have a domain name and reliable hosting you can move to step 2.
- The Church sets up a merchant payment account if you would like to collect donations on the site. We support Stripe, PayPal, Authorize, Braintree and many others.
- The Church completes the Church Information Questionnaire. This information will be used to create the content for your website.
- Once the questionnaire is complete, WP Help 360 schedules a 30 min call to discuss the design details and expectations for the website.
- Give us about 2 weeks to complete the building of the website.
- WP Help 360 schedules another 1h meeting to review the final draft of the site and make any changes.
- The Church website goes Live!
How much does a website cost?
The hosting and the domain registration cost about $150 per year, depending on the provider. WP Help 360 estimates the website development time at about 6h which is $390. Any time spent above the 6h mark is billed separately.
What happens after the launch?
WP Help 360 will perform regular updates, maintenance, and SEO review on the site. We can also make content, features and styling updates for you at any time. You always have full access to the site, if you wish to make any changes to it yourself.
Photos by Brett Sayles and Tabitha Mort