Advertising that fills seats
We run your ads on Google and social media so people searching for a church near them find yours. Choose Google Ads, Social Media Ads, or both — we recommend both.
Someone nearby searches
A family new to town opens Google and looks for a church near them.
Google shows your church
Your church appears in the results, with service times one tap away.
They plan a visit
They see when and where you meet, and show up on Sunday.
Most church websites measure nothing
Choose your configuration
One plan, one price — $147/month whichever configuration you choose. You pick your configuration at kickoff, not at checkout — and you can switch anytime.
Google Ads
Show up when someone nearby searches for a church.
- Google Ad Grants application and setup — up to $10,000/month in free Google advertising for qualifying churches
- Search campaigns aimed at people looking for a church near you
- Landing pages on your church site, with GA4 and Search Console linked so every click is measured
- Plain-English monthly report
Requires a church website
Social Media Ads
Reach your neighborhood on Facebook and Instagram.
- Meta (Facebook + Instagram) campaigns aimed at your local community
- Creative built from your church’s own photos and clips
- Event pushes when you need them — Easter, Christmas, VBS
- Plain-English monthly report
Recommended
Combined
Google + social together — how we recommend running it.
- Everything in Google Ads and Social Media Ads
- Google catches people already searching; social reaches everyone else nearby
- One plan, sequenced by us — Ad Grants first, social layered on top
- One plain-English monthly report covering both
Requires a church website
Google-configured ads require a website. If your church doesn’t have one yet, the website + advertising bundle covers both.
What the monthly report actually contains
The first Monday of every month, you get one email in plain English — not a dashboard login, not a 40-page PDF. On the Combined configuration it’s still one email, covering Google and social together. Every report answers four questions:
- People reached
- How many people nearby searched for a church and saw yours on Google, and how many more your ads reached on Facebook and Instagram.
- Clicks and visits planned
- How many tapped through to your site, and the actions that matter — plan-a-visit form submits, directions clicks, phone taps — measured with GA4 conversion tracking we set up.
- What we changed
- The keywords, ads, or creative we adjusted this month, in plain words. Ad accounts that nobody touches decay; active management is part of the plan.
- What's next
- Next month's plan — including seasonal pushes like Easter, Christmas, and VBS when they're coming up.
The tone we aim for reads like this: “X families nearby searched for a church and saw yours; Y tapped through; Z planned a visit. Here’s what we changed, and here’s next month’s plan.”
How it works
- Google Ad Grants setup and monthly management
- Social media ad campaigns aimed at your local community
- Plain-English monthly reporting
Worth knowing — Google Ad Grants
Google Ad Grants gives qualifying nonprofits — including churches — up to $10,000 a month in free Google advertising. We handle the setup and the monthly management, so your church shows up when people nearby search for a church to visit.
Qualifying means holding 501(c)(3) status — churches qualify, including under a denominational group ruling — and having a real website on your own domain for the ads to land on. We handle the application: nonprofit verification, the Ad Grants account setup, and the landing pages on your site that Google’s quality rules require, like a plan-a-visit page with service times, address, and what to expect.
The grant also comes with ongoing compliance rules — minimum click-through rates, conversion tracking, active management — that get unmanaged accounts suspended. Keeping your account inside those rules month after month is part of what the monthly management covers.
Whatever configuration you pick, you get plain-English monthly reporting — not ad-agency jargon.
Advertising
We run your ads on Google and social media so people searching for a church near them find yours.
$147/mo
- Google Ad Grants setup and management
- Social media ad campaigns
- Aimed at your local community
- Plain-English monthly reporting
$0 setup · no contract · cancel anytime
The questions churches ask before starting ads.
- Is there a contract?
- No. Like every Church Digital plan, advertising is a flat monthly price with no setup fee and no contract — you can cancel anytime from your account.
- Does the monthly price include ad spend?
- The Google side usually needs no ad budget at all: Google Ad Grants gives qualifying churches free advertising inventory from Google, and our job is winning and managing it. Social ads do use a real ad budget on top of the management fee — we agree on that budget with you in writing before anything spends, and we'll tell you plainly if a budget is too small to be worth running.
- Do we need a website first?
- For the Google configuration, yes — Ad Grants ads must land on your church's own site, so if you don't have one, the website + advertising bundle covers both. The social configuration can run without a website.
- What if our church doesn't qualify for Ad Grants?
- Applications sometimes bounce — usually over website content or nonprofit verification. When that happens we fix the cited issue and reapply, and the social configuration can start in the meantime so your ads aren't waiting on Google.
- How will we know it's working?
- The plain-English monthly report: people reached, clicks, visits planned, what we changed, what's next. No dashboards to learn and no ad-agency jargon — and a real person answers your questions within one business day.
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