Church websites that get someone through the door.
Custom Squarespace sites for churches — built so a first-time visitor knows exactly what to expect, where to park and what to wear, and feels welcome before they arrive. Fixed price agreed before we start, and you own everything.
A first-time visitor is not evaluating your theology. They are working out whether they will feel out of place.
Someone considering a first visit has an entirely practical set of anxieties: what time, where do I park, what do I wear, will someone talk to me, what happens with my kids. Most church websites answer none of these and lead instead with a mission statement. The visit does not happen, and nobody knows why.
Most church websites
The dated site problem
A calendar nobody has updated since last year, a sermon archive three clicks deep, and service times either missing or wrong. It signals a church that may not still be running, which is the opposite of the intended message.
The invisible problem
You do not appear for "church near me" or "family service" searches in your own town, because the site was never structured for the way people actually look.
What we build instead
A site that answers the practical fears first, makes service times impossible to miss, shows real faces rather than an empty building, and makes a first visit feel low-risk.
- First visit
- Practical fears answered first
- Service times
- Impossible to miss
- People
- Real faces, not an empty building
- Search
- Found for "church near me"
Built for how a first-time visitor actually decides
Every element below exists because it changes whether someone turns up on Sunday — not because it looked good on a mood board.
Service times, impossible to miss
Times, address and parking surfaced in the first screen on mobile. It is the single most-searched thing on any church website and usually the hardest to find.
What to expect, honestly
How long, what happens, what people wear, what your kids do. Removing the fear of being out of place matters more than any statement of belief.
Real faces, not empty pews
Photography of actual people at actual services. An empty building reads as a church nobody attends, whatever the copy says.
Giving made simple
A clear, dignified route to give — one-off or regular — without it dominating the page or feeling transactional.
Sermons and events, current
Structured so the team can publish weekly without it becoming a chore, because a stale church site is worse than none.
Findable locally
Location, service times and event schema properly marked up, so search engines and AI answers both know when you meet and where.
Three things we know about how visitors decide
The barrier is social, not spiritual.
Almost every unanswered question a first-time visitor has is about not embarrassing themselves. Sites that lead with belief statements answer a question nobody was asking yet.
Nobody scrolls to find a service time.
It is the most-searched item on a church website by a wide margin, and it is buried on most of them. Putting it in the first screen changes attendance more than any redesign of the homepage message.
Families decide on the children’s provision.
For parents, the entire decision often rests on what happens with their children and whether it is safe and organised. A single clear page on this converts more families than a whole site of welcome copy.
How your church website gets built
Four stages, in the same order every time. How long each takes depends on the size of the site — you get the timeline in writing before anything starts.
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Discovery
One call and a short form. Which work is most profitable, which you want more of, and what clients ask before they commit.
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Copy first
Every page written for you and sent as a document to review. You approve what the site says before you see how it looks.
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Design & build
Built custom from a blank canvas — desktop and mobile — with SEO, schema and analytics wired in as we go, not bolted on after.
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Launch & handover
If you have an existing site, every URL is redirected so rankings hold. Then training, 30 days of support, and full ownership in your name.
We launch, rebuild, grow and maintain church websites.
Two fixed-price projects to get the site right, two monthly retainers to keep it working. Most clients start with a project, then add one retainer.
You have the direction. We build it properly.
For companies with their design and content already settled, or moving from another platform without changing the substance. The thinking is done — this is the part where it gets built and lands without incident.
Everything reconsidered, then rebuilt around it
For companies where the site is not just dated but wrong — the wrong message, the wrong structure, aimed at the wrong buyer. We start with what it should say and work outward from there.
Visibility that compounds instead of resetting
Fewer buyers reach a results page at all now — they ask an assistant and act on the answer. Being the source that answer draws on is the work, and it is won slowly rather than switched on.
The web team you would hire, without the headcount
For companies that want the site run rather than repaired. Someone who knows it inside out, works to your rhythm, and gets to things before you have noticed them.
Grow and Maintain can run together after any project. Not sure which you need? The discovery call settles it in thirty minutes.
Questions churches ask us
Will we lose our current search rankings?
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No. Every URL is mapped and 301-redirected before launch, and rankings are measured either side so anyone searching for the church still finds it.
What does a first-time visitor need?
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Service times, the address, parking, what to wear and what happens with children — findable in seconds. Most church sites are built for members and quietly leave the newcomer guessing.
Can we take giving and donations online?
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Yes. One-off and recurring giving is handled natively, and a giving route that takes three taps on a phone raises noticeably more than a page explaining how to set up a standing order.
Can a volunteer keep it updated?
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Yes, and that is the deciding factor. Notices, sermons, events and service changes are publishable in minutes from a phone, and the walkthrough is recorded so it hands over when volunteers change.
Should sermons be on the site?
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Yes, with text. Audio or video alone is invisible to search, whereas a title, summary and transcript make years of teaching findable by people looking for exactly that subject.
How do we serve members and visitors at once?
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With separate routes. Members need the rota, the calendar and the giving page; a visitor needs reassurance and a time. Neither should have to wade through the other.
Should safeguarding be visible?
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Yes. Policies, named safeguarding leads and checks for anyone working with children or vulnerable adults, stated plainly. Parents look for it, and its absence is noticed.
Who writes the content — and can our leadership review it?
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We write every page and deliver it as a document for leadership review before design begins. Getting the tone and the theology right is your call, not ours.
What if nobody has time to maintain it?
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The build is deliberately simple to update, and where there is genuinely no capacity the management retainer covers it.
What does it cost, and who owns the site?
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Projects start from $3,750, with the exact figure set by page count, functionality and whether existing content is being migrated. You get a fixed number in writing before anything begins — no hourly billing and no scope surprises. Full detail on the pricing page. You own the result outright: the domain, the Squarespace account and every piece of content are in your name from day one, with no agency lock-in.
Be the church they visit.
Thirty minutes, free. We work out what the site needs to do and tell you straight whether we're the right team for it. Not ready to talk? Have us pull your current site apart on video instead.
