The challenges facing churches, trying to successfully use the Internet for furthering their ministry and message, are many. Simply finding a talented designer, at an affordable price, is difficult. Once built, the church must then find someone internally, who understands HTML, to keep it current. The end result is either a poorly designed site, a seldom-updated site or, in many cases, both.

Your site, complete with all its content and features, is easily managed, created, and edited online, by any staff member, without the need for any HTML knowledge or any external software. Once your site is completed, you can designate and assign content-editing rights to departments or individual users. This allows specific church departments/individuals to easily update their own content in the site without changing the design.

One of the most critical functions a church provides is a community in which fellowship will flourish. This community building aspect is crucial to your physical church, and in our opinion, crucial to the success of your online ministry as well. Our community building feature not only fosters a sense of community but increases the use, and subsequently the size, of your online church. By tightly integrating user profiles, user image galleries, buddy listing, forum post tracking, and an online private messing system we build an online community that knows one another and communicates with one another, through your church website. Couple this feature with the viral marketing features the system already offers and suddenly, you not only have a capable and easily administered system but one that is organic by nature, growing itself over time.

Every Sunday your message reaches your congregation. What if you could broadcast that sermon to the world? What if your church’s sermons were podcasts listed in Apple's iTunes Podcast Directory? With our system, they can be! We add your podcast feed from our system to iTunes Podcast Directory and your weekly sermons become available to iTunes users worldwide! Your users can subscribe to your podcast service by merely clicking a button to automatically add your podcast to your users’ iTunes Podcast subscriptions.

Manage your recorded sermons for podcasting feeds with ease! Separate from the Audio Library feature, you can pick and choose which sermons specifically are podcast as part of your iTunes podcast feed. Easily drop these audio files into other content areas of your site, as you see fit, for click-and-play-(player included) ready links! This is the perfect vehicle for messages in need of a worldwide audience and global reach.

Blogging is the perfect online mechanism for your pastoral staff to reflect and provide guidance "between Sundays". Our system allows for pastoral blogs that can help bring repeat visitors to your site and provide a platform for personal insight that goes beyond the confines and structure of Sunday's sermon.

Our system comes with it's own fully integrated WordPress Blog, creating new traffic streams to your online presence! Every time you make a post, our system "pings" all the major blog search engines (such as Technorati, and Google Blogs). This temporarily pushes your site to the top of those engines for your blog tags (keywords). Utilize your blog regularly and watch the web traffic from outside your church grow dramatically!

• Image Gallery: Supports all major image types. Integrated ecard, lightboxing, slideshow, rating, and commenting system included! Create event images and send as invitation ecards!
• Audio Gallery: Make sermons available to the public or for registered users on demand. Integrated rating and commenting system included. Link audio sermons to your Estore catalog for increased sales!
• Video Gallery: Supports nearly all video formats. Integrated rating and commenting system included.

From fund raising to sermon series sales, every church can utilize an online store. Particularly if that store is incredibly easy to use. Our system comes with a Paypal integrated Estore that is as simple to use as pasting your Paypal button code. If you've never used Paypal before we'll help you get it set up, after all, our online giving feature connects to the same easy account. Unlimited categories, unlimited items, flexible product descriptions and images, our Estore feature can be configured to your specifications in just minutes. And because world online payment leader Paypal handles the processing, there are never security concerns.

Take a look at our demo system and see just how easily the store can be created but linked to other aspects of the system, for instance, an audio sermon in your audio gallery can be linked to the CD version available in your store! The possibilities are as limitless as the system itself!

No church website would be complete without a full-featured, fully searchable events calendar. Events can be the lifeblood of a church, and getting the message out, about those events, is mission critical. Now you can do that not only with ease but style! While incredibly easy to use, our event calendar is extremely robust, supporting recurring events, categories, and user/group management.

Just like the rest of our system, adding events is a breeze in a simple WYSIWYG editor right from the website interface! User views include monthly, weekly, daily, by category, and by flat and threaded views.

Give your church members, or the general public, the ability to tithe and make donations right through your web site. This small, unobtrusive component utilizes PayPal for payment processing, and donations can be one-time, weekly, monthly, or annually recurring. Each donator is sent a complete receipt of the transaction for tax purposes and record keeping.

Traveling, or otherwise absent, members of your congregation will now have the ability to tithe, and new visitors who are moved to make a contribution to your church have an easy and fast means of doing so. With your new system, traffic will grow and you can now receive blessings from people who have never even attended your church. By utilizing PayPal as the payment processor, you provide your users with a secure, risk-free, and well-trusted means of donating.

If your church is growing, a powerful community feature to add to your web presence is community-driven message boards. Each board can have its own focus; for instance, one message board could be for the youth group while another for a regularly meeting bible study class. You decide and make the forum as large or small as you want. Expand it at any time!

Community is at the heart of a church, and so it is with our services. Our approach is to help you build online community in addition to providing valuable content in an aesthetically pleasing manner that makes your church shine. Our forums are another power tool in your community building toolbox!

Make sure you register as a user on our demo site so that you can make a post if you like, remember to check your profile page forums tab if you post to see that feature in action!

Would you like to send out a newsletter to your registered members? That functionality is built right in! Manage an unlimited amount of newsletters with ease and send beautiful HTML formatted newsletters to your subscribers with the click of a button!

Our Newsletter Manager supports: newsletter management with publishing and check-in/check-out, embedding images into the message, file attachments, newsletters with HTML and alternative text (100% compatibility), subscriber management, subscriber import/export, and subscriber email validation.

Selected specifically for it's ease of use, our Newsletter Component is everything you need and nothing that you don't.

Our systems all include a prayer request form, as it's the one form that is common to all churches. But you're in no way limited to this single form, in fact, you can make as many online forms, for any reason, that you like!

Forms can be created by your designated editors without any HTML knowledge. All submitted input is captured to your database in addition to being sent to designated email recipients. Use this tool to make powerful online forms about any subject you choose. Comes with a host of sample forms to get you started!

Our system is designed to give you every possible advantage, in the search engines, for your targeted keywords. But, without the ability to scrutinize your traffic patterns you have no way of know how your visitors are actually finding you. Did they search for you? If so, what search criteria did they enter? Perhaps some other website has linked to you and is sending you traffic. What pages did they view? What was their actual path through the site? What are the most viewed areas of your site? The least viewed?

Without statistical reporting you'll never know, and worse, you can't make adjustments to improve your traffic unless you can define the baseline for that improvement. Find every major detail about your site traffic at a glance with our integrated Church Website Statistics Manager!