Top 10 Reasons Your Church Should Have A Website January 29, 2006
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If you are reading this page, you probably do not need to be convinced to have a church website, but maybe someone in your church does, so with apologies to David Letterman, here goes.
- It is a good way to help new people within your community find your church.
- You can build and host a nice website for very little money (less than $150).
- It offers visitors an unobtrusive way to find out information about your church.
- You can use your web address for nice, clean branding on items such as pens and stationary.
- It opens up a whole new avenue of ministry in which church members can use their abiilities.
- It allows your pastor to comment quickly on current issues.
- It allows your members to download sermons rather than purchasing tapes.
- It gives you a public place to keep useful resources such as your constitution, your newsletters, and your membership policies.
- It allows you to point members of your church to other useful web resources.
- Outsiders will think your church is progressive, even if you only do hymns in worship.
There are hundreds of others I am sure. Please feel free to add your own in a comment. I don’t have the market cornered.
One of our Church members found your site. We have a site but the member who administered the site has left our church. He created a very sophisticated, state-of-the-art, dynamic web site. He wants to maintain it for us but he really doesn’t seem open to updates plus he’s not integrated into our church – he’s with another denomination. We are thinking it is time to change the site so that any web savy lay person at our church can maintain it. Thanks for all your thoughtful insights. I do have a computer science degree but I graduated in ’94 and the web and pcs were just taking off at that point. Everything I’ve learned has been from others and the web postings. God bless you and keep you…Vicki
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Hi Vicki,
It’s a common problem when one person holds the keys to the site administration. If you’ve read all the great tips on this site then you may find some further free helpful insights at http://www.church123.com/design. If you don’t want to have the hassle of learning HTML then you may want to use a content management system aimed at churches (there are loads out there of which http://www.church123.com is one). Good ones will let you have multiple editors so, for example, your youth pastor can update the youth pages (but not the whole site) etc.
Hope that helps,
Gordon