White Oak UMC – Content is king!

Tony Burgess e-mailed me about his church’s new site, currently hosted at wordpress.com. This has to be one of the best examples of a WordPress-driven church web site, I’ve seen.

It isn’t a fancy web site that will attract people to the gospel; its a living, breathing Christ-centred community.

It shows a church that is alive and presents clear up-to date information about the church and its life. One of the clear advantages of using WordPress (or similar tools) is that it can create a sense of community and activity with very little effort. By simply regularly posting what is happening in the church community, you create a window into your church that shows a vibrant and attractive community. White Oak have achieved this with their site.

SHINE website goes live

SHINE is an organisation that aims to resource the local churches in St Helens. One of my latest projects has been to move their website over to use WordPress. A by-product of this is a cool google maps plugin I have put together to provide a drill down interactive map of all churches in the St Helens borough.

Each church is located by assigning GPS coordinates to each church page in WordPress.

The site is using my LivingOS PSI theme. You can check it out here.

More WordPress churches

Continuing the campaign to see churches get online the easy way – with WordPress. Here a few more churches using WordPress:

• Kings Church, Chinley, UK
• Faithbridge Presbyterian Church,Texas, USA
• Grace Church, Arkansas
• Carrigaline Baptist Church, Carrigaline, Co. Cork, Ireland.
• Cambray Baptist Church, Cheltenham , UK

I’d love to hear from anybody using WordPress to run their church website.

More WordPress driven Churches

A while back I highlighted a number of churches that are using WordPress and some of the reasons why WordPress is ideal for such applications. I have also developed a few themes some of which are designed specifically with churches in mind (this is an ongoing project). I’ve been amazed at how many people are using my themes. There is even a cathedral on the list!
So here are a few more churches that have picked up these themes and made their presence felt on the web.

WordPress Driven Church?

I got into WordPress, recognising it was a great solution for church websites. My first WP theme designed specifically for churches has been downloaded 109 times to date too. So I thought I’d keep a note of where WordPress is working for churches. Those using my LivingOS Alpha theme:

• Vincent United Methodist, Minot, USA
• St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Minot, USA
• Brownley Green Baptist Church, Wythenshawe, UK
• The Church of the Ascension, Maryland, USA
• Whyteleafe Free Church, Surrey UK

And the rest of the WordPress driven church scene….

• Dulles Community Church, Washington DC, USA – well actually TextPattern, but even so, it is impressive.
• Temple Baptist Church, USA
• St. John’s Episcopal church, Colorado, USA
• Joy Mennonite Church, Oklahomam USA
• Village Church, New York, USA
• Ranges Community Church, Australia
• Evangelical Free Church of Bloomington, USA

If you are using WordPress for a church website or have a theme that fits a church application (and are willing to share) then let me know and I’ll include it here.