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Service times buried three clicks deep.
If a first-time guest can’t find when, where, and what to expect in 5 seconds, they bounce — and choose the church whose site told them in one.
The First-Time Guest Growth System
Turn Your Sunday Message Into More First-Time Guests.
Built for churches with 300+ weekend attendance. We design, build, and launch the site so your staff can focus on Sunday.
On the call, we'll map out a custom growth plan for your church — no commitment required.
The Faithworks Excellence GuaranteeWe stand by our work — or we make it right.
Trusted by forward-thinking ministries to remove the friction between online research and physical attendance
Watch this first
2 minutes. Here's exactly how it works.
Up to 30 minutes — often shorter. You walk away with strategic direction — even if we don't work together.
The hard truth
Is your website costing you families?
A confusing, outdated, or hard-to-navigate website is pure friction for a potential visitor. Today, families decide whether to visit your church based entirely on their digital experience. If your website is a static digital brochure rather than an active conversion system, you're actively losing families who actually wanted to come.
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No “Plan Your Visit” path. Or a broken one.
A generic contact form is not a visitor pipeline. Without a guided flow, you have no idea who almost came — or how to follow up.
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Zero attribution. Zero answers.
You can’t tell your senior pastor which campaign brought Sunday’s guests — because the tracking infrastructure doesn’t exist.
You don't just need a “pretty” website. You need an automated First-Time Guest pipeline.
Why custom wins
Your website isn't a brochure. It's the moment they decide.
80% of first-time guests check your website before they ever set foot in the building. In those first few seconds, they're not reading — they're deciding: “this feels like a place for me” or “I'll keep looking.” Your website is that decision.
TemplateThe default
- Looks like every other church
- Built to display, not to guide
- Slow, bloated, invisible to AI search
Plan-Your-Visit conversion
0.8%
Custom Faithworks buildEngineered to convert
- Feels unmistakably like your church
- Engineered to guide guests to Sunday
- Fast, AI-search ready, built to scale
Plan-Your-Visit conversion
4.6%
Lift
5.75×
46%
of people say design is the #1 factor in deciding whether a website — and the church behind it — can be trusted.
What changes when you go custom
Not a design upgrade. A growth engine.
Conversion rate
Template → Custom
Template
0.8%
Custom
4.6%
Real client jump after switching to a custom build.
Organic traffic growth
Template → Custom
Template
1× baseline
Custom
3–5×
Custom architecture is built to be found — by Google and AI.
Visitor follow-through
Template → Custom
Template
1×
Custom
2–5×
More of the families who land actually take a next step.
Why custom converts
Five reasons templates can't catch up.
Feels like your church
Tone, people, culture — captured online so the site matches the room.
Engineered for movement
Plan-Your-Visit flows that walk a stranger toward Sunday morning.
1.5s
Fast
Stays under the ~1.5s threshold where conversions hold.
14.2%
Wins AI search
AI-driven search converts at 14.2% vs 2.8% for traditional results.
Scales with you
Sermons, multi-campus, CRM, advanced funnels — added without breaking it.
A template gives you a website. A custom build gives you a system that builds trust instantly, guides people toward visiting, and increases your actual Sunday show-up rate.
If your website isn't lifting your show-up rate, it's quietly costing you growth. Let's fix that.
The system
Building your ultimate conversion hub.
Three steps. One system. Every online researcher — captured and walked to the door.
01Step
The “Plan Your Visit” pipeline
We build fully optimized, custom-designed visitor flows that make it effortless for a family to plan their Sunday visit — parking, kids check-in, what to wear, what to expect.
02Step
Automated visitor nurture
We integrate automated text + email follow-up sequences behind the scenes, so no interested visitor ever slips through the cracks before Sunday morning.
03Step
Advanced attribution tracking
Stop guessing what works. We build the tracking infrastructure so you know exactly which campaigns are driving real first-time guests — not just clicks.
What this looks like on a Sunday morning
The numbers that matter when the doors open.
Not bounce rate. Not page views. The metrics your senior pastor actually asks about.
Plan-Your-Visit submissions
A predictable flow into the front door — not a once-a-year Easter spike.
Visit-to-show-up rate
Automated text + email nurture that actually walks people through the door on Sunday.
Cost per first-time guest
Real attribution tied to real guests — so you know what to scale and what to kill.
New-family follow-up
Warm, pastor-approved, automated. No-one falls through the cracks between click and Sunday.
Ten years. Real churches. Real numbers.
You’ve heard the pitches. Here’s the proof.
Five numbers that took ten years and a lot of late nights with pastors to earn. Pricing, scope, and the story behind each one are on the Strategy Call.
3×
Inc. 5000 honoree
Fastest-growing Christian marketing agency
$47M
in Ad Spend managed
across church and non-profit accounts
1,000+
First-time guests driven
to partner churches across the country
76K
Social posts produced
for church accounts and growing
1,560hrs
Saved per church, per year
to reinvest in discipleship, small groups, Sunday planning
Pastors who use Faithworks
Pastors who stopped losing visitors at the website — and started filling seats.
Real church leaders, in their own words, on what changes when their website finally pulls its weight as a conversion engine.
Pastor Marlin D. Harris
NewLife Church
Pastor Ken Sirmans
Journey Church
Jim Hollandsworth
aPath United
Neal Dose
First Baptist Eagles Landing
Scott Eaker
River Hills Church
Justin Morris
Executive Pastor, 902 Church
Selected Work
Sites we've built. Results pastors can name.
A small set of recent church sites — every one a working conversion engine, not a digital brochure.
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Chapel Street Church
chapelstreet.church
Full rebuild — Plan-Your-Visit pipeline, sermon hub, give flow.
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Rock Creek Church
rockcreektx.church
First-Time Guest funnel + automated visitor nurture.
Church Awakening
churchawakening.com
Brand system + sermon-driven content engine.
Northminster Church
northminster-church.com
Warm, welcome-first homepage — service times and “I'm New” front and center.
The Lifehouse Church
thelifehousechurch.com
Family-forward hero, watch-online path, and clear next steps for guests.
Live, working sites. Domains shown for credit only — your strategy call is where we walk through the build, the funnel, and the numbers each one is producing.
Three tiers. One system.
Pick the build that matches where your church is right now.
Transparent pricing for every tier. Basic is a monthly subscription; Premium and Platinum are project builds with optional ongoing management.
Basic — Campaign Landing Page
Best for: quickly launching a Plan Your Visit system to get more visitors.
$600/mo
Or $360/mo with a 12-month partnership (40% off).
What's included
- Website size · 1 landing page
- Design · Fully custom landing page
- Copywriting · Audience-focused copywriting
- SEO / GEO · Built for ads + basic optimization
- Forms & conversion · Plan Your Visit page + basic CTA
- Automation · 1 New Visitor automation sequence
- Payment terms · Monthly
- Ongoing management · Included
Premium — Done-For-You Website
Best for: a fast, done-for-you website that's fully managed.
$3,000 project
$1,500 kickoff · $1,500 launch · $199/mo management required at launch
What's included
- Website size · Up to 5 pages
- Design · Proven church website template, customized to your brand
- Build timeline · 7 days
- Copywriting · Standard website copy
- Hosting & ownership · Fully managed hosting included
- Revisions · 1 round
- SEO / GEO · On-page SEO
- Forms & conversion · 1 standard contact form
- Monthly content edits · Up to 1 hour/month after launch
- Ongoing management · $199/mo required starting at launch
- Additional pages · $397/page
Platinum — Full Growth Website System
Best for: a high-end, fully custom website and digital platform.
$27,000 project
$13,500 kickoff · $13,500 launch · $499/mo management optional at launch
What's included
- Website size · Up to 25 pages
- Design · Fully custom, high-end design
- Build timeline · 6–8 weeks
- Copywriting · Full copywriting + messaging framework
- Hosting & ownership · Client-owned on Webflow or WordPress
- Revisions · 3 rounds
- SEO / GEO · Advanced: on-page, technical, schema + content-driven SEO
- Forms & conversion · Up to 3 custom forms + 1 landing page
- Monthly content edits · Up to 4 hours/month after launch
- Ongoing management · $499/mo optional starting at launch
- Additional pages · $397/page
The next step
Ready to remove the friction? Let's build your hub.
Fill out the form below to see if your church qualifies for the Faithworks Growth System. Upon submission, you'll be redirected to book your Strategy Fit-Check Call — up to 30 minutes (often shorter) with one of our church marketing strategists. Honest fit verdict. Clear strategic direction either way.
What happens on the call
30 minutes. We review your current website, identify the biggest conversion gaps, and show you exactly what a Faithworks-built site would look like for your church.
We never share your information. Expect a response within 1 business day.
We respect your inbox. We respect your time. If we're not a fit, we'll send you something useful instead.
FAQ
What you'll get on the Fit-Check Call.
It's a focused working session — up to 30 minutes, often shorter — not a sales pitch. We audit your current website's visitor flow, give you a gut-level honest read on whether we're the right fit, and either way you'll walk away with clear strategic direction on the next 1–2 changes that will move first-time guests. If we're not a fit, we'll tell you that too — and point you to what is.
Every click you lose at the website is a family who never made it to Sunday.
Up to 30 minutes — often shorter. Honest fit verdict. You walk away with clear strategic direction on your website — even if we never work together.