Church Websites
At Fast Effective Solutions Ltd we have developed a way for churches to produce an inexpensive yet highly effective website.
Our church website was developed after we, as individuals, were asked to be involved with coordinating our welcoming process at our own church of St James in Bishops Stortford Essex – under the guidance of Bishop Alan of St Albans and our own Rector, Bob Payne, we have taken the welcoming process to include enabling people, as God calls them, to find a local church and to minimise the barriers that so many of us experience as we begin to answer God’s calling.
Our criteria for this website were
- People friendly
- Welcoming
- Easy to read and find info
- Easy to update
- Children and Family orientated
One of the major hurdles we encountered with our own church website is how, although we receive many thousands of visitors from 75 plus different countries, our own congregation have taken a while to become used to their own website and treat it as their first port of call for regular info.
We have found it necessary to bring the church together on a regular basis, replacing house groups for that week – to avoid increasing the “meetings” workload.
We run these evenings with praise & prayer topping and tailing workshop sessions in smallish groups to address how we can allow the holy spirit the freedom to work through us more effectively.
This method is highly effective in helping us “own” our own website with info and children’s pictures being regularly updated – and is now beginning to help us reach out more effectively to the broken hearted in our society.
We have found this whole process very exciting.
When we were first approached by another church we looked carefully how we could replicate this whole approach.
Although our church website did cost quite a few thousands of pounds to develop we now have an effective way of putting together a magazine style website for other churches at a moderate cost.
If this might help your church reach out in your area do please make contact.