For churches · For church plants
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A plant has no history, no photos of last year's picnic, and no budget line for a website. That is fine. The site's only job for the first six months is to get a curious neighbor to show up once. Everything else can wait.
Before launch
The meeting address (a school gym is fine, say so), the day, and the time. Google needs this as text to show you on Maps; a flyer image does not count.
Who you are, what the gathering is like, what to do with kids, and a simple "let us know you are coming" form. This page converts more than the homepage.
A Give link to whatever platform you chose. It does not need to be pretty. It needs to work on a phone.
The planter's name and a photo of actual people. Stock photos read as a franchise, and a plant is selling the opposite of a franchise.
Register yourchurchname.org in an account the church controls, not the planter's personal login. Plants change hands; domains should not.
Skip for now
A sermon archive (you have three sermons), a members portal, an app, a blog, an events calendar with nothing on it, and a five-page About section. Empty features make a new church look emptier. Add each one the week it has real content.
Our 2026 study of 1,734 small-church websites found that 83.9% of small-church sites had findable service times and 64.2% had working giving. A plant that nails those two on launch day is already ahead of a third of established churches.
Cost
A plant's budget is uncertain by definition, which is why setup fees and annual contracts are the wrong shape for it. Church-specific builders publish entry prices from about $19 a month, some with a one-time setup fee; general builders start around $16 a month billed annually (vendor pricing pages, checked July 16, 2026). Either works if the planter has a volunteer who will keep it current.
Church Digital builds and runs the site for $120 a month flat, no setup fee, no contract, and the founding rate makes the first 6 months $60 a month. That is the shape a plant needs: month to month, nothing up front, and if the plant becomes a church of 300 the site grows with it instead of being rebuilt.
Growth
Launch site, the six-month site once you have photos and a rhythm, and the "we are a church now" site when you have staff, ministries and a building. Whatever you choose, pick something you can change without starting over, and keep the domain and the content in your own hands so the second and third versions are edits, not migrations.
Common questions
Planting this year
We will show you a homepage concept built from your own words and photos, and tell you honestly whether a builder is enough for now or whether you should let us run it. No pitch, no call required.
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