A strategic, reliable website solution for Episcopal parishes that helps you reach visitors, engage your congregation, and build a digital foundation for long-term ministry growth.
Episcopal Essentials is our streamlined website package purpose-built for Episcopal churches that need a reliable, effective and easy-to-manage online presence without the cost or complexity of a fully custom build.
This offering draws from our experience working with Episcopal dioceses and parishes, as well as dozens of churches of all sizes in various denominations. We’ve distilled the best practices and core features to a highly intentional package so churches on a tighter budget have access to our powerful, proven website solutions on an accelerated timeline.
This package is built for parishes who want a site that does the essentials extremely well: communicate who you are, share what’s happening, and make it easy for people to get involved.
Episcopal Essentials is designed for organizations that:
We guide you through the process step by step, with clear communication, defined milestones, and a collaborative approach at every stage. Our goal is to make the experience smooth and manageable, even for teams without technical backgrounds.
Your project begins with a focused strategy conversation. We clarify your identity, priorities, and audiences, then use that insight to shape a clear site structure. This groundwork guides key decisions, keeps the project efficient, and results in a website that is easy to navigate and ready to support your ministry over time.
We create a design concept based on your brand and existing assets so we can create an overall look and feel that fits your organization. We review together, then mock up the building blocks of your full design system, including typography, color palette, and layouts, as well as key full pages. All design work is created with mobile use in mind and follows accessibility best practices.
Your site is built on a stable, well-supported WordPress foundation that balances flexibility with simplicity. We use a proven system and streamlined tools so your team can manage content confidently, while the underlying system stays reliable, secure, and ready to grow with you.
We map your existing pages into the new site structure, and build out key pages within the updated design system. Your team then has access to refine and improve content over time and add additional pages using the simple content management system.
We conduct a live training session with your team to ensure administrators have a strong grasp of how to quickly and easily make edits to the site. Before your site is launched, we set up a staging site where your team can thoroughly review a final draft of the site. We complete our quality assurance process to ensure everything is ready for action!
After launch, we remain a steady partner. We offer hosting and ongoing support to keep your site secure, up to date, and running smoothly, while giving your team the freedom to handle routine updates in-house. When questions or issues come up, you’ll have direct access to people who know your site.
Discover the core features and functionality included with the Episcopal Essentials package, designed to support everyday church communication and content management.
PageBuilderLS gives your team full control over your website content. You can add, edit, and reorganize content using structured blocks that automatically follow your site’s typography, color palette, and layout standards.
The system is intuitive enough for communications managers and administrators to learn quickly, while maintaining clean code and consistent branding behind the scenes. Your site stays professional and cohesive, even as different team members update it over time.
Create an archive of sermons, presented with dedicated detail pages that support video, audio, and related notes and resources, keeping people engaged on your website rather than sending them to external sites. Livestreams can be featured prominently and embedded directly on a dedicated page.
The event calendar provides a centralized view of upcoming events and automatically generates a dedicated page for each one, where you can add promotional and logistical content. Events can be scheduled as one-time or recurring, giving visitors a clear, reliable way to see what’s happening and get the details they need, while making it easy for your team to keep information current in one place. Dynamically feature selected events on related pages across the site for additional visibility.
The staff and leadership directory presents clergy, lay leaders and staff with optional individual profile pages. These profiles can be featured across other areas of the site, allowing your team to manage information in one place while keeping leadership visible and consistent wherever it’s referenced.
The posts section provides a flexible, chronological format for sharing news, announcements, weekly bulletins, resources, stories, and updates. Posts support text, images, and video, can be categorized for easy browsing. Dynamically feature posts across the site, making it a versatile tool for keeping content current and visible.
Secure donation forms can be embedded from external platforms (like your ChMS), or we can direct users to a third-party giving page. If you want a more seamless experience, Gravity Forms integrations are available as an optional add-on.
A built-in site search tool helps users quickly locate key content and improves usability, reduces frustration, and supports a smoother experience for everyone visiting your site.
Create unlimited pages for ministries, programs, and special initiatives.
Add forms anywhere on the site for communication, registrations, and requests.
Leverage built-in best practice and plugin for ongoing search engine optimization.
Create easy-to-share URLs for communications campagins.
Display urgent or important messages in a site-wide alert bar.
We set up Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics so you can review website data.
Your website is a valuable asset you should own and control. With our solution, your site is built on an open-source WordPress foundation and hosted in a secure, professionally managed environment with regular updates and automated backups.
You have direct access to your hosting account and website files. If you ever need to move your site to another provider, it is fully portable.
We believe in long-term partnerships, but you are never trapped in one. Our goal is to provide stability, transparency, and responsive support so you can focus on ministry.
Episcopal Essentials is designed to deliver strategic value and long-term stability at a predictable cost.
$8,975
Payable in up to 4-6 monthly payments
Includes strategic planning, design, development, content migration (up to 10 key pages), core features, training, and launch support. Flexible payment options are available.
$150/month (billed annually)
Includes managed hosting, automated backups, security monitoring, performance optimization, software updates, and direct support access.
Add-ons are available for expanded functionality, including advanced giving integrations, email platform integrations, and additional page building.
The first step is to get in touch and we’ll take it from there.
