Can we update the site ourselves or do we have to go through you?

Both options work. We can set it up so someone on your staff or a volunteer handles basic updates — adding events, changing service times, posting announcements. Or if you'd rather just email when something needs changing, that works too. Your call.

We have a Facebook page already — why do we need a website?

Facebook's great for announcements, but it's terrible as a front door. Some content requires an account to view, the layout changes on you constantly, and you don't control how anything is organized. A website is yours. It shows up in Google. And it doesn't bury your service times under a post from three weeks ago.

Can people give or donate through the site?

Yes. We can add online giving through whatever platform your church already uses — Tithe.ly, PayPal, Subsplash, or others. It's usually a straightforward integration, not a custom build, so it won't blow up your budget.

What if our church only has a hundred or so members?

Church size doesn't determine what your website needs to do. A small congregation in Mineola still gets searched online by families passing through town or considering a move to the area. The simple site at $300 covers everything a smaller church needs without paying for features you won't touch.

How do we keep the event calendar from going stale?

That's a people problem more than a tech problem, but we make the tech side painless. If someone can use a smartphone, they can add an event. We can also connect it to Google Calendar so updates sync automatically — add it in one place, it shows up on the site.

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$50 a month. That's what a lot of churches pay to keep a website running that hasn't been updated since their last pastor left. If your congregation is still sending people to a site with a broken calendar and mystery service times, you're spending more effort apologizing for it than it would cost to replace the whole thing.

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Visitors Google Before They Visit

A family moves to Wood County. Maybe they're settling near the Historic District, maybe out on the other side of the lake. First thing they do — before asking a neighbor, before driving around looking for steeples — they search 'churches near Mineola TX' on their phone.

What comes up matters. And what happens when they tap your link matters more. If your site takes forever to load, or the service times are from 2022, or they can't figure out where you're located without clicking through four pages — they move on to the next result. Not out of rudeness. Convenience wins every time.

Your building might be warm and welcoming. Your pastor might give the best sermons in East Texas. But nobody's going to find that out from a website that feels like a chore to use.

What a Church Site Actually Needs

Church websites have a bad habit of trying to do everything. Thirty menu items. A page for every committee. An archive of bulletins going back to 2017. Meanwhile, the one thing a new visitor actually wants — what time do I show up and where do I go — is somewhere in the middle of all that.

A good church site puts the basics up front: service times, address with a map, and a short description of who you are and what you believe. That's the front door. After that, you build out what your congregation actually uses — an event calendar that stays current, ministry pages, maybe a way for folks to submit prayer requests or sign up to volunteer.

The calendar part is where most church sites fall apart, by the way. If updating your events requires tracking down somebody who remembers the login, it's not going to get updated. A site where adding an event is about as hard as posting on Facebook — that's the goal.

Fast, Clean, No Fuss

Church budgets are tight. That's no secret. A full website starts at $1,500 and takes about a week. If you're a smaller congregation and just need the basics — service times, location, a page about your beliefs — a simple site starts at $300 and can be done in a few days.

No subscriptions to website builders that nickel-and-dime you for every feature. No drag-and-drop templates that look like every other church site on the internet. Just a site that works on phones, shows up in search results, and doesn't make your tech-savvy members wince.

Hosting runs $50 a month, which covers keeping everything updated and running. Something breaks on a Saturday night before Sunday service? It gets handled.

Small Town Doesn't Mean Small Reach

Maybe you figure everybody in Mineola already knows where your church is. And a lot of them do. But Mineola sits right at the crossroads of 69 and 80, and folks pass through and move in more than you'd think. Wood County keeps growing.

A website isn't just for newcomers, either. Your own members check it for holiday service times, grab the address to text to out-of-town family, or look up when VBS registration opens. If that information isn't on your site, they're calling the church office. Which is fine — until it's the same question fourteen times in one week.

Put the answers where people look first. That's the whole job of a church website.