FAQ

• Google Sites is a free platform that anyone with a Google account can access and use, forever. This means that once we've built your site, Google will continue to host it indefinitely.

• It's also extremely easy to learn and use, so even if you're not very tech-savvy, you can still manage and update your site without much difficulty.

• On top of that, Google Sites lets you collaborate with a practically unlimited amount of team members. This means you can give your church members access to edit and update your site using their own Google accounts -- and if a member ever leaves your church, you can remove their access to your site to ensure ongoing privacy and security.

• Additionally, by using Google Sites, it's easy to integrate things like Google Forms, Drive, YouTube, Maps, and other Google services with just a few clicks.

We could go on and on about all the benefits and pros of using Google Sites, but then we'd be talking too much.

When life was simpler, people couldn't travel very far. Weather, road conditions, and vehicular limitations all contributed to peoples' restricted abilities to travel. Communities were often smaller, and more tight-knit. And there was usually only one church in town.

This meant that you didn't have much choice about where you went to church -- or what kind of church it was. We've come a long way from then, and now we're living in an age where there are so many churches to choose from, it's almost impossible to decide.

This is a good thing and a bad thing. Good, because it means that the Gospel has been successful in reaching many communities. Bad, because more and more people are basing their church-going decisions primarily on whether or not the church has a good online presence.

We can speak to this personally, since, as our theological perspectives have changed over the years, we've found ourselves searching online (on more than one occasion) for a church that fit our needs and convictions about doctrine, community, and ministry. Oftentimes, we found that websites for churches in our area were lacking a clear statement of faith, had no pictures of the church or church community, little detail about services and ministry areas, and were essentially just addresses on a webpage. It's an unfortunate truth, but we often dismissed these churches and moved onto the next in our search, as we had no idea what they stood for. We didn't want to waste our time when there were other churches out there that gave us a far better picture of who they were.

This is why it's important to have a good church website, not just a church website. It's important to have an online presence that will show people what your church stands for, and why they should consider making it their home.