Does your church have an ugly website?

March 9, 2009 in Communications with 8 Comments

I’ve been writing about bad websites for several years. That bugs me because people checking out our churches typically visit our websites before they visit our churches. I heard another story just today about someone who visited the NewSpring website before they were convinced they should attend a service at one of our campuses. Our web presence matters.

With that in mind, I’m really excited about this project. I’m partnering with Collision Media to battle ugly church websites. That’s right. I’m tired of churches having bad websites, and I’m doing something about it.

Over the next several weeks, you’ll have the opportunity to submit your ugly church website and tell us about your church. On April 7 we’ll announce the winner with the ugliest website and most compelling story, and Collision Media will begin the design of a custom website.

Are you ready to make a change? If so, submit your ugly church website. (I’ve seen some of your sites. Some of you need to do this.)

Stay tuned for updates. The days of bad church websites end today.

8 Responses to “Does your church have an ugly website?”

  1. Steve March 10, 2009 at 5:32 am #

    Hi Tony, great idea! It might also be cool to enable people to submit websites that aren’t for their church. For example, I do volunteer marketing work for a para-church organisation. Through that I come across many church websites, some (many, perhaps even most) are shockers.

    I think this church website must win the award for the least amount of content!

    http://www.geocities.com/eppinggc/

  2. Nathan Gagne March 10, 2009 at 12:52 pm #

    I entered our church website. The senior pastor made it and updates it. Don’t tell him I’m the one that entered it.

  3. tony March 10, 2009 at 1:21 pm #

    nathan, i won’t tell him. your secret is safe with me…and a few thousand others. :-)

    tony

  4. Dorothy (vicar of vibe) March 13, 2009 at 4:29 pm #

    @Steve ROTFL

  5. Art Good March 16, 2009 at 3:24 pm #

    I was just hired by this church (Springhill Christian Center in Mooresville, IN) for the second time (youth pastor).

    The website is just plain U-G-L-Y! It is rarely updated and doesn’t provide enough information.

    This church has the potential to do something awesome in this growing area south of Indianapolis. A custom website would do wonders for them!

    Thanks!!!

    http://springhillministries.org/

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