A Small Church Pastor’s 5 Reasons for Using WordPress on Their Church Website

This is a guest post written by Micah Fries

As a pastor of a small church who feels like they are slightly more adept at handling technology than the average pastor, I still recognize that there is an enormous gap between what I am comfortable dealing with and what is available in the world of technology, particularly as it relates to the setting of the local church.

If I, who utilizes technology fairly often, find it to often be confusing I can only imagine that it must be almost dizzying for most church leaders, particularly leaders in small churches who often feel technologically inadequate.

So today I want to take just a few minutes and share some personal motivations for using WordPress as our church’s website management system. I hope that if you are a pastor a small church and/or ministry, these reasons will help motivate you to choose WordPress for you website needs.

Here’s my five reasons for using WordPress on your church website: Read more

February 27, 2007 · Filed Under Web Site Design, WordPress

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Rockin’ Church Website: John Piper’s Bethlehem Baptist’s New Redesign

bethlehem baptist john piperCheck out John Piper’s Bethlehem Baptist’s new church website redesign. …

I’m really fond of their church logo. The colors on the site are calming, pleasing to the eye. And I love their domain name: http://HopeInGod.org

What do you think?

[Found via Challies]

February 27, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design

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Great WordPress Themes Designed Just for Churches: Tim at LivingOS

Tim at LivingOS has some additional comments on my reasons to choose WordPress for your church website.

Also, if you haven’t check out his free WordPress themes that ROCK for churches, you need to go there now. I really like how he’s laid out some of those templates.

Check out his list of WordPress-driven church websites.

February 23, 2007 · Filed Under Web Site Design, WordPress, WordPress Themes

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Rob Bell’s Mars Hill Church Website Gets a Simple, Unique Makeover

Wow … Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan … where Rob Bell is pastor … definitely has an out-of-the-box church website design. [It’s fairly new, by the way.]

I expect this kind of unique design from something associated with Bell.

It’s minimalistic, very clean … and beautiful, in my opinion.

But I don’t think most churches could pull it off … to me, it resembles all I know about the church. It’s part of their DNA and represents them well.

What are your thoughts on the design?

[Found via Brenton Balvin]

February 20, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design

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Search the Bible On Your Cell Phone with Zondervan’s .Mobi Website

Although I talk about using technology for ministry a lot here, I admit there are a lot of areas I’m still learning about and exploring … one of the latest is creating websites geared directly for mobile devices, like cell phone, PDAs, etc. And with the .mobi domain now available, I’m seeing more and more pop up.

Jonathan Petersen, Zondervan’s Director of Internet Marketing, was kind of enough to send me some information about a couple of their “.mobi” websites to review. Read more

February 17, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design

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Rockin’ Cool Church Website: Northgate Pentecostals Colleyville, Texas

northgate pentecostals church

Check out the Northgate Pentecostals site … including their MySpace site, Pastor’s Blog and Save The Metroplex site, which I’m kind of wondering if Jay Jones had a hand in?

[Thanks to R Payne for the heads up.]

February 15, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design

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