Your church website meets visitors before you do.
Is it making a good first impression?
Your church website meets visitors before you do.
Is it making a good first impression?
Your church’s website matters.
In our digital age, the majority of first-time guests will check out a church’s website before they choose to visit the church. Before you can meet them, hear their story, and have them experience what a gathering with your church community is like, your church’s website has to make a good first impression.
What is the purpose of a church website?
At this point, you may be wondering, what makes a good church website? A church website should inform potential guests about your church, and further community for your church family.
Inform Potential Guests about your Church
Potential visitors want to learn about what life as part of your church community is like; do you have a children’s and student ministry? Do you have small groups, where they can live in community? Who are the leadership? Are there opportunities to get involved and utilize their gifts? These are things that people want to know before they visit your church, and they will be looking at your website to find their answers.
Further community for your church family
Another important purpose of a church’s website is to serve as an organized information hub for church members, with clear calls to action for their next step in your church’s community. This involves things like small group sign-ups, serving opportunities, upcoming events, and resources to encourage them in their discipleship to Jesus.
What Makes a Good Church Website?
There are several design and technical aspects that a church website needs to function well. In addition to fulfilling the purpose of informing potential guests about the church and furthering community for the church family, a good church website is optimized for mobile visitors, performs well, is secure, and has a good user experience.
Website Performance
Site speed and mobile friendliness are vital aspects of a good website, and a prerequisite for ranking well in Google.
Optimized for Mobile
With up to 70% of website traffic coming from mobile devices, it is a non-negotiable that websites be optimized for mobile.
Website Security
Broken links and lack of an SSL certificate are major vulnerabilities to any website.
User Experience
Having clear navigation and next steps, good information, a visually appealing interface, and ease of use are essential.
Our Team Is Here to Help, so you can focus on ministry
With all the various components that are integral in designing, developing, and optimizing a church website, pastors shouldn’t try to build their website alone. All too often, we see ministry staff trying to balance website maintenance and digital marketing with all of their other tasks and roles that come with shepherding a church.
Our team is experienced in building and optimizing church websites that are informative for potential guests, and help to further community for the church family. Instead of trying to figure out things like SEO, website speed, and mobile-friendly design, let us come alongside you, so you can focus on ministry.
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It’s just a short, casual conversation to see if we’d be a good fit.
Schedule a Discovery call
It’s just a short, casual conversation to see if we’d be a good fit.
Website Design and Development Solutions for Churches
Wordpress Website Development
With a WordPress Website Build, our team will design and develop a website for your church, that includes:
- Your Style and Branding
- SEO Best Practices
- Google Ad Grant Best Practices
- A Mobile-Friendly Design with a Good User Experience
- Security Measures in Place
- Optimized for Performance
New Website Builds Start at $3,000
Landing Page builds
With a Landing Page Build, our team will design and develop a landing page on your site, that fits within the existing website style. The landing page builds are commonly used for things like:
- A Big Upcoming Event or Sermon Series
- Adding New Features that an Existing Website is Missing (Calendar/Events, Sermons archive, online giving, etc)
- Adding New Pages for New Ministries, Staff Members, etc
Landing Page Builds Start at $250 for New Clients (Clients w/ an existing website support plan have this included in their monthly service)
Website Support Plans
You don’t have to worry about making ongoing edits to your website, keeping plugins up to date, adding new events, or making sure the site is loading properly. We’ll take care of all of that for you, with one of our monthly website support plans.
Monthly Support Plans start at $100/month
What Our Clients Say
“For the Good Marketing is the best! We would use them again and again.”
— Jason, Redemption Ranch
“Leah and the team at For the Good Marketing have gone above and beyond to meet our needs… From our initial inquiry, they worked with us to come up with solutions that met our goals and budget. We are grateful.”
— Chris, Mission Central
“Leah is up-to-date on what’s most effective today in marketing… This is not just a job for her—her heart is in all she does.”
— Cathy, FCAP
“They did a great job making our vision a reality for our website and our branding.”
— Quinton, BCM
“Leah and her team are awesome—super responsive, super knowledgeable, and ready with helpful suggestions.”
— Kari, EFree Church
“For the Good Marketing took a half-hearted and ignored part of our ministry and totally reshaped it. I asked Leah to use her skills to make us look good and reach new people with our marketing… and she did.”
— Jeff, Storypoint Church