Church websites,
made from scratch.
A custom church website designed around your people, your city, and how your staff works. No templates, no page builders to fight, and no handoff-and-forget. Need it fast? We can launch as soon as this week.
What is custom church website design?
Custom church website design means your site is planned, designed, and built for your church specifically, instead of adapted from a template. With thisweek.church, that includes a design made from scratch, a custom CMS for sermons, events, ministries, and staff, search and AI-discovery foundations, review rounds, testing, and launch, followed by hands-on support and staff training.
Everything a church website needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Every custom church website we build starts from the questions your visitors and your staff actually bring to it.
Design from scratch
Layouts, type, color, and photography shaped around your church and the people you want to reach. Nothing borrowed from a theme.
Visitor-first structure
Service times, location, kids ministry, and what to expect on a first visit are easy to find, because those are the questions new people arrive with.
A custom CMS
Sermons, events, ministries, staff, and pages, each with fields built for your content, so your team can update the site without code.
Mobile and accessible
Most visitors arrive on a phone. Every page is built to load quickly, read clearly on a small screen, and work for people using assistive technology.
SEO and GEO foundations
Clean markup, structured data, and answer-ready pages, so search engines and AI assistants can understand your church and point people to it.
Review, testing, and launch
You review the site with us, we make the agreed revisions, test across devices, and launch. Then Mission Control begins.
Why not just use a template?
Templates can be a reasonable place to start. Here is where a custom church website is different.
Typical template site
- Layout picked from a theme, then filled in
- One generic page builder for every kind of content
- Features limited to what the theme and plugins allow
- SEO left to settings and add-ons
- Handed off at launch
thisweek.church custom build
- Structure planned around your visitors and ministries
- A CMS with real fields for sermons, events, ministries, and staff
- Features built for what your church needs
- Structured data and answer-ready pages built in
- Mission Control support after launch, month to month
Four phases, start to orbit.
Every plan is customizable, and you always know what happens next.
Mission Planning
It starts with your people, not our templates. We learn your goals, your content, and how your staff actually works, then plan a site your team will be able to run. Together we agree on the structure and design direction before a single page is built.
Build & Launch
We design and build your site and a CMS shaped around the people who will use it every week. You review, we refine, we test, and we launch. On a tight timeline, you can be live as soon as this week.
Mission Control
After launch, you have our full attention. We're on call, training your staff on real updates, refining the site as you learn what your church needs, and tuning search and AI visibility, committed to making it run exactly the way you want. Month to month, until your team is confident.
Orbit
Your team runs the site on its own, and we keep everything underneath it fast, secure, and online. When you need a hand, we're still here.
Questions.
How is a custom church website different from a template?
A template starts with someone else's layout and asks your content to fit it. A custom site starts with your church: who visits, what they need to find, and how your staff updates content. The design, page structure, and CMS are all built around that.
What pages does a church website need?
Most church websites need a clear home page; a plan-your-visit page with service times, location, and what to expect; pages for kids and other key ministries; sermons; events; beliefs or about; staff; giving; and contact. We confirm the right set for your church during Mission Planning.
Can you redesign our existing church website?
Yes. We start with what you have: what is working, what isn't, and which content should come along to the new site.
Can we keep our domain and our current content?
Yes. Your domain stays yours. During Mission Planning we decide together which content moves to the new site, and we plan redirects from old page addresses so existing links and search results keep working.
How much does a custom church website cost?
It depends on what your church needs. Build your plan on our pricing page and the estimate updates live as you choose pages, CMS, features, and timeline. A five-page build starts around $2,200, with Mission Control at $250 a month and hosting from $65 a month.
How fast can you build a church website?
As soon as this week when your church needs it. On a tight timeline we compress planning and build, launch, then keep refining the design and content together during Mission Control. With more time, a fuller Mission Planning phase lets us go deeper. We'll help you pick the pace.
Who will we work with?
The team that built preachly.io. We plan, design, build, and support your site from Mission Planning through Orbit.
Let's design yours.
Tell us about your church. We can have you live as soon as this week.