Your church website doesn’t need to win a design award. It needs to do one thing: make a first-time visitor feel like your church is worth showing up to on Sunday. That sounds simple. But if you’ve ever stared at a blank page in a website builder, cursor blinking, wondering what font to pick or […]
Andrew Peters
Free Church Websites: What You Get (And What You Give Up)
There are genuinely free church websites out there. Nobody is lying to you about that. Wix has a free tier. Google Sites exists. WordPress.com lets you publish without paying a dime. If your church needs something online today, you can get it for zero dollars. But “free” has a cost. It just doesn’t show up […]
Mother’s Day at Church: Your Digital Outreach Checklist
Mother’s Day is the second-highest attendance Sunday of the year. Right behind Easter, right ahead of Christmas Eve. Families show up. Visitors show up. People who haven’t been to church in months show up because Mom asked. And most churches do absolutely nothing to capitalize on it. No updated homepage. No targeted ad. No follow-up […]
Church Management Software vs. Church Website Builder: What’s the Difference?
A lot of churches are paying for a church management system that tries to do what their website builder should do. Or they’ve got a website builder doing things a ChMS should handle. The confusion costs real money, and it creates frustrating gaps where important things fall through the cracks. Here’s the short version: a […]
Your Easter Follow-Up Plan: What to Do the Week After Easter
Easter Sunday brought a crowd. The parking lot was full. The kids area was buzzing. People you have never seen before were sitting in seats that are usually empty. Now it is Monday morning. And here is the uncomfortable truth: most of those visitors are never coming back. Not because the service was bad. Not […]
Church Easter Ads: How to Run Facebook Ads Without Wasting Your Budget
Fifty dollars on Facebook ads before Easter will do more for your church than a yard sign on the highway. That is not an exaggeration. A yard sign reaches whoever drives by. A Facebook ad reaches the exact people in your community who are most likely to visit a church this Easter. But here is […]
How to Set Up Your Church’s Easter Funnel (Step-by-Step)
Easter is the biggest attendance day on the church calendar. And most churches spend exactly zero dollars and zero minutes promoting it online. Not because they don’t care. Because nobody ever showed them how. The phrase “Easter funnel” sounds like it belongs in a marketing agency, not a church staff meeting. But all it really […]
How to Get More Google Reviews for Your Church (Without Being Weird About It)
Asking your congregation for Google reviews feels strange. You know you need them. Someone probably mentioned it at a staff meeting. Maybe you even thought about bringing it up from the stage and talked yourself out of it. Here’s why it feels weird: you’re treating it like asking for a Yelp review at a restaurant. […]
What Should Be on a Church Website? The Essential Pages Checklist
Most church websites have a homepage, a staff page, and a "Contact Us" form that nobody fills out. That's not a website. That's a digital bulletin board, and nobody reads bulletin boards. Here's the thing. Your church website only needs about 7 pages. That's it. But what goes on those pages matters far more than […]
Church Website Builder: Free vs. Paid (What You Actually Get)
Every church wants a free website. That makes total sense. You’re working with a tight budget, and if there’s a way to get online without spending money, why wouldn’t you? Here’s the thing. Free church website builders exist. But what you save in dollars, you almost always pay for in time, frustration, and first impressions […]
