Website Design

A church website your staff can actually keep current.

Most church websites aren't badly designed. They're abandoned — because whoever built them left, and nobody on staff has forty minutes to figure out how to change a service time. We build the site, write the words, and hand it over in a state your admin can run.

Fixed scope · fixed price · typically live in six to eight weeks
What's included

Everything a church site needs, and nothing it doesn't.

No page templates you're expected to fill in yourself, no plugin sprawl, no “content coming soon” three months after launch.

Design and copy, not a template drop

Every page is designed around what your church actually needs a visitor to do next — and written in your voice, not filler text you're expected to replace later.

The stuff churches always bolt on badly

Service times, directions, and “what do I do with my kids” answered above the fold. Giving, events, sermons, and forms wired in properly instead of duct-taped to the footer.

Built for the person who has to update it

Your admin can change a service time, add an event, or swap a photo without calling anyone. We hand it over with a walkthrough and a written cheat sheet.

Fast, findable, and accessible

Mobile-first, quick on a phone in a church parking lot, structured so Google can read it, and legible for the 70-year-old member as well as the 20-year-old visitor.

Sermons and calendar that stay current

YouTube sermons and your existing calendar feed pull in automatically, so the site stops going stale the week after launch.

An AI front door, if you want one

Wesley AI's chatbot can be built into the site from day one, so the questions the site can't answer still get answered.

The process

You'll always know what week we're in.

The most common way a church website project fails is that everyone loses track of whose turn it is. So here's the whole thing, in order, with who does what.

  1. 01
    Week 0

    Conversation

    A real conversation about your congregation, your staff capacity, and what's actually broken — not a discovery questionnaire. You get a fixed scope and a fixed price before anything starts.

  2. 02
    Weeks 1–2

    Content & structure

    We map the pages, gather what exists, and write what doesn't. This is the step most church website projects die in, so we drive it instead of waiting on you.

  3. 03
    Weeks 2–4

    Design

    You see the real homepage in a browser, on a phone, with your content in it. Two rounds of revisions included, in plain language — no design jargon required.

  4. 04
    Weeks 4–6

    Build & connect

    Every page built, giving and forms connected, sermons and calendar wired up, everything tested on real phones.

  5. 05
    Week 6–7

    Launch & handoff

    We move the domain, watch it for a week, and train your staff on the five things they'll actually need to do. You leave the call able to run it.

How we work

The parts churches get burned on.

Every church has a story about a website project that went sideways. These are the four places it usually happens.

Fixed scope, fixed price

You know the number before we start. No hourly surprises, no “that's out of scope” after the fact.

A real timeline, in writing

Most builds land in six to eight weeks. If your content slips, we tell you what that moves — nobody disappears for three months.

You own everything

Domain, hosting, content, and accounts stay in your church's name. If you ever leave, you leave with the site.

We don't hold your edits hostage

Training and documentation are included. Ongoing care is available if you want it — it isn't required to keep the lights on.

Built by someone in the room

We've sat in the staff meeting where the website comes up.

Wesley AI isn't an agency that took a church client once. Mat has spent more than a decade in ministry — worship, creative direction, communications — which means the site gets built around how a church office actually runs.

That the volunteer photographer will send you 400 images the week of launch. That the youth pastor will want an event page at 9pm on a Thursday. That “can you just add one thing” is never one thing. The build is designed around those realities instead of pretending they won't happen.

Website Design

Fixed scope. Fixed price. Quoted per church.

Every church is a different size with a different mess to untangle, so builds are quoted rather than listed. Tell us where you are and you'll get a scope and a number — usually within two business days.

Refresh

Quoted

For a church whose site works but looks and reads like 2016.


New design applied to your existing pages
Homepage and “I'm new here” rewritten
Mobile and speed cleanup
Sermons and calendar reconnected
Staff walkthrough + written cheat sheet
Typically 3–4 weeks
Best value

Build + Wesley AI

Quoted

The full build with the AI front door installed from day one.


Everything in Full Build
Wesley AI chatbot trained on your content
Staff knowledge base set up with your documents
Planning Center and YouTube connected
Early Adopter rate locked for the subscription
Typically 6–8 weeks

Every package is quoted in writing before any work begins. No hourly billing, no surprise line items.

Send us your current site. We'll tell you the truth about it.

You'll get a short, specific read on what's working, what's costing you visitors, and what a rebuild would actually involve — before any money changes hands.