Your Church Website Turns Visitors Away Before They Find the Service Times
If you're a pastor watching first-time guests bounce because your calendar won't load, you're losing disciples to UX.
Custom church websites with sermon libraries, online tithing, event calendars, and member tools. Faster than WordPress, cheaper than SaaS over 3 years.
Your member lands on your homepage, taps 'Sermons,' and watches last Sunday's message buffer for 11 seconds before giving up. WordPress church templates ship with 47 plugins fighting for database rows while your congregation waits. Custom church development on Next.js + Supabase means your sermon library transcribes automatically, your giving dashboard updates in real time, and your multilingual content serves the Spanish service without a Google Translate widget. No $6,400 in SaaS fees over three years. No plugin conflicts breaking your calendar the week before Easter. Your site loads in 0.9 seconds, your staff controls everything from one dashboard, and your data lives in your database--not rented from Tithely. This is infrastructure that reflects your mission, not a template that reflects everyone else's compromise.
Your Current Site May Be a Liability
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
What Your Website Could Look Like
Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
Sermon Video Library
Auto-transcribed sermon archives with full-text search, speaker filtering, scripture references, and series grouping. Videos stream via adaptive bitrate -- works on a slow mobile connection, delivers full HD on desktop.
Tithing & Giving Integration
Connect Stripe, Tithely, or Pushpay directly -- no platform sitting in the middle taking a cut. Recurring giving, designated funds, and year-end tax statements are all built in.
Multilingual Services
True internationalized content with next-intl, not machine translation. Each language gets its own URL routes, SEO metadata, and content management workflow in the admin panel.
Member Directory & Groups
Secure member profiles with role-based access through Supabase Auth. Small group discovery, signup, and communication all live in the same place.
Event Calendar & Registration
Church events with RSVP, volunteer signup, recurring schedules, and automatic Google Calendar sync. No third-party embed required.
Weekly Newsletter Engine
Write and send weekly emails straight from your admin dashboard. It'll auto-populate with your latest sermons, upcoming events, and prayer requests via SendGrid.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Escape WordPress load times that bleed 53% of visitors before the hero image renders
Auto-transcribed sermons make your entire library searchable by keyword, scripture reference, or topic--Deepgram indexes every upload
Stop paying $50–$200/month to platforms that charge transaction fees on top of Stripe's 2.9%
Adaptive video streaming adjusts quality in real time so mobile viewers never buffer and desktop members get full 1080p
Replace sermon libraries where years of teaching vanish into pagination nobody clicks past page two
Real-time giving dashboard shows donor trends, fund allocation, and recurring gifts without opening your payment processor
Kill the tithing middleman taking 1–3% of every donation for a feature Stripe already handles
Small group finder lets members filter by location, language, day, and topic--then join in one click with instant Slack channel access
Ditch Google Translate widgets that make your Spanish service feel like an afterthought
Volunteer scheduling assigns roles per service, sends swap-request notifications, and tracks participation history from one admin panel
Unify member directories and group signups instead of manually syncing three separate logins
Prayer request wall accepts public or anonymous submissions with staff moderation and optional email notifications to intercessors
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Ministry Discovery
Week 1We sit down with your pastoral team and staff and map every workflow -- sermons, giving, groups, events, communications. We audit your current platform and pinpoint what's costing you time and money.
Architecture & Design
Weeks 2-3We design your site architecture, information hierarchy, and visual identity. You see interactive Figma prototypes of every page and admin screen before we write a single line of code.
Build & Integrate
Weeks 4-7Next.js frontend, Supabase backend, and every third-party integration -- Stripe, Tithely, Mux, Deepgram, SendGrid. Sermon migration from your existing platform is included.
Staff Training & Launch
Week 8We train every staff member who touches the site. We handle DNS, deployment to Vercel, and go-live monitoring. Your old site's redirects get configured automatically so nothing breaks.
Post-Launch Support
Weeks 9-12You get 30 days of included support for bug fixes, content questions, and workflow adjustments. Optional maintenance plans are available for ongoing sermon uploads and site updates.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Get Your Free Church Website Assessment
Tell us about your congregation and we'll deliver a detailed quote within 24 hours.
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