Step-by-step guide
Build your church website in about 30 minutes.
Eight short steps, with the real screens you'll see in Church Studio. Do them in one sitting, or one a day this week.
Open Church Studio and follow alongFree for 14 days · No card to start
- 1 About 2 minutes
Start your site (and bring the old one over)
Go to the Church Studio signup and type your church's name. Your home page builds as you type.
Have a website already? Put its address in the first box. Studio brings over your words, photos, staff and events in about a minute, and you review all of it before anything changes.
Pick a design. You can switch any time; your words and photos stay put.
- 2 About 8 minutes
Make the home page yours
Click any words on the page and type. Click a photo and choose Replace.
Two sentences of welcome in your own voice beat a paragraph of sample text. Say who you are and who you're for.
Press Publish at the top right when it looks right. Nothing is public until you do.
- 3 About 3 minutes
Get your service times and address right
Open Settings, then Service times & address. Add each service and where you meet.
Save, and the visit page, the map and the footer all update at once. This is the first thing a guest looks for.
- 4 About 3 minutes
Post this Sunday's sermon
Open Sermons, press + New, add the title and paste the YouTube or Vimeo link.
Better: connect your channel under Settings and every new sermon posts itself from then on.
- 5 About 4 minutes
Add events, or connect your calendar
Open Events and press + New for a one-off. Or press Calendar and paste the link to the calendar you already keep: Planning Center, Google, Breeze, CCB and most others.
Studio sorts it into events, groups and ministries, and keeps your site in step every few hours.
- 6 About 5 minutes
Set up the welcome for first-time guests
Open Visitors to see the road a guest travels: they find your site, tap Take a Next Step, and get a welcome right away. Change the wording of any step in a click.
When someone reaches out, they land in People. Reply right from Studio and mark them connected once you've talked.
- 7 About 1 minute
Invite a volunteer
Open Settings, then Your team. Type their email and press Invite. They pick a password and land right in Studio.
Sites stay fresh when more than one person can update them.
- 8 About 4 minutes
Use your own web address
Open Settings, then Your web address. Type the address you own and press Connect, then follow the one or two steps for wherever you bought it.
No address yet? Search for one right there. Your Studio address keeps working either way.
That's a church website.
Live, current, and following up with first-time guests on its own. Stuck on a step? We'll do it with you.
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Free Resource
The 5 Emails Every First-Time Guest Should Get
The follow-up sequence that turns a first-time visitor into a second-time guest — five emails, written for you. Copy, paste, add your church's name, and send. Free PDF.