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Years ago, I was working as a worship pastor in a church in Ohio when I came across Michael Hyatt’s blog and podcast. Around that time, he released a book called Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World. In his book, he talked about why it’s so important to Start with Wow. The basic concept was simple: Make sure you can make a great first impression. Start your relationships with a sense of awe. Give people a reason to want to continue to learn more about who you are and what you have to offer. Around the same time, I…

Your church is only as strong as its ability to serve the people who are a part of it. As a pastor or leader in your church, you understand that. And we at Digital Church will only be as strong as our ability to serve you. So we set out on a major task recently, and that was to fully custom design a support website where you can find all the help you need to build a website or app that will propel your church into digital ministry. Instead of just copying what others have done, we took a holistic…

In the wake of COVID-19, churches are scrambling to enhance their online presence and provide tools and resources that can keep their people connected, encouraged, and engaged in their faith and church family over the coming weeks. Digital Church is extending our free trial to 45 days. Anyone who signs up on or after March 20, 2020 should automatically receive this update. Anyone who has signed up in the last six weeks is also eligible. Just reach out to us via chat and we’ll get your trial extended. If you are a small church and can’t afford to make those…

Coronavirus has become a really big deal over the last several weeks. There’s no denying that. Churches are expecting low attendance or cancelling their public worship experiences altogether to lead the way in keeping their community safe from the spread of this disease. But then, most churches are left wondering how they’ll keep their organization strong and their people engaged in their faith while public worship gatherings are sent to the back burner. We’ve said for years that “Church isn’t about this building or this hour of your week. The church is you.” But now we have to figure out…

We’ve all been there… January 1 hits, and we set a New Year’s Resolution. By the end of the first week, we’re already off the wagon. Goals are nothing but dreams until you have a strategy or system to make your goals a reality (Check out Atomic Habits by James Clear). Your church website is one of these systems–a system to achieve specific goals like these: “We want to have more first-time visitors in our church on Sunday.” “We need to be able to communicate details about our upcoming events.” “We need a single place for our people to be…

Video backgrounds are a great way to engage potential visitors on your church website. If you produce the video well, it will support the purpose of the page you are including it on while it gives the user an idea of what the in-person experience is like for your organization. Done well, a video background applies leverage to your online strategy. Done poorly, however, it can do damage to your overall strategy. We put together these tips for video backgrounds on your church website. Keep it short. Nobody is going to stick around to watch your video background, so keep…

Great news! We’ve just added an Easter landing page template to the Digital Church Platform! If you’re an existing subscriber, you can create a new page on your current site and import the page template from the templates tab in the page builder. If you don’t already have a Digital Church website, feel free to register a new site and use the Easter at City Church template for your new site. That will automatically import the Easter landing page as your home page. Check out our Easter Landing Page Template All sites on our platform now include an advanced page…

Gallup studies have revealed that over half of the people in the United States will plan to attend church on Easter Sunday. If you haven’t already started to build a digital strategy for Easter Sunday, you should start now. Here’s our list of suggestions to get you started on an Easter strategy to bring more people into your church this year. Start with the End in Mind Let’s make sure we have a clearly defined goal. For most of us, it will be something like this: We want to bring more visitors to our church on Easter Sunday. So the…