Issue No. 312 — Tuesday, November 18 · The Resource Catalog
Every template in the Idea Pack ships with the homepage copy, the about page, the Statement of Faith module, and a four-email second-giver sequence — written so a volunteer team can ship a faithful, first-time-visitor-ready site on a Saturday.
The Idea Pack Catalog
Each entry below is a working template a volunteer web team can open, edit, and ship the same afternoon — written in plain church language, not designer jargon.
No. 01
A first-time-visitor homepage that answers "who are you, where do I go Sunday morning, and what do my kids do" above the fold — with three rotating hero variants for Advent, Easter, and fall kickoff.
No. 02
A pastor-written About that reads as a letter, not a corporate bio — paired with a leadership grid, a "what to expect" sidebar, and a 90-second history of how the church began.
No. 03
A drop-in Statement of Faith block written to be edited — with denominational variants (Reformed, Wesleyan, non-denominational, Catholic, Orthodox) and a "What we teach about..." expandable section.
No. 04
A standalone page you can drop into a QR code, a Facebook ad, or a postcard — written to lower the temperature of a first-time walk-in and answer the four questions every visitor actually has.
No. 05
A four-email nurture sequence for the person who gave once and went quiet — written for a 30-day window, with subject lines, preview text, and a plain-text fallback for every email.
No. 06
A printable sermon-notes page that hooks into your podcast feed and YouTube embed — with a discussion-guide sidebar, a "what did you hear?" reflection block, and small-group prompts.
Chaptered Walkthrough
Every Idea Pack download arrives as a single ZIP. Inside, six folders, one for each template, and a short README that tells a first-time editor what to change first and what to leave alone.
Chapter I
Each template ships with the actual words — not "lorem ipsum," not placeholder headings. The Homepage comes with three rotating hero variants (Advent, Easter, fall kickoff) so you aren't rewriting from scratch in November. The About page arrives as a 600-word pastor's letter with two shorter variants, plus a 90-second church-history sidebar your long-tenured members will recognize. Every paragraph has a comment in the file showing what to edit and what to leave; nothing is hidden behind a wall of designer jargon.
Chapter II
The Second-Giver Email Sequence arrives as four pre-written emails — sent across days 2, 7, 14, and 30 after a first gift. Each email ships with three subject-line options, preview text, a plain-text fallback, and an annotated "why this email exists" header so a new communications director can see the reasoning behind every send. You paste them into Mailchimp, ConvertKit, or whatever your church already uses; we don't lock you into a platform.
Chapter III
The Statement of Faith is the part most churches either skip or paste from another church's site. We ship five complete denominational variants — Reformed, Wesleyan, non-denominational, Catholic, and Orthodox — plus a "What we teach about..." expandable section so visitors can read what your church actually believes without scrolling through a wall of theological prose. You pick the closest starting point, edit the language to sound like your pastor, and ship.
Anxiety check: yes, this is for a church your size. Templates are used by 40-person rural congregations and 5,000-seat multi-site networks alike — the copy is the variable, the layout is the constant.
I built the first version of these templates after eleven years of designing nothing but church websites. The patterns that work — the homepage that lowers a first-time visitor's temperature, the second-giver email that actually gets a reply — they don't come from generic SaaS playbooks. They come from sitting in pastors' offices, week after week, and listening to which pages get phone calls and which pages get closed in three seconds.
Brian Whitfield, founder — Church Website Ideas
By the Numbers
2,100+
Live church websites in the curated screenshot library, tagged by denomination, size, and feature.
41,000+
Downloads of the open Church Site Playbook since 2021 — the open-source companion to the Idea Pack.
38,500
Verified Idea Letter subscribers as of Q4 2025, with a 47% average open rate each Tuesday.
Before You Download
Four questions a volunteer web team asks before giving an email — answered here so you don't have to hunt through the Library first.
Yes — the Statement of Faith module ships with five complete denominational starting points (Reformed, Wesleyan, non-denominational, Catholic, Orthodox) and the rest of the copy is denomination-neutral by design. A panel of 18 pastors and 9 church communicators across 11 denominations reviewed every word before the templates shipped.
The copy arrives as .docx (Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages — pick your editor). The layout arrives as .html + .css that any volunteer comfortable with a basic text editor can change, and as a .figma file if you'd rather click. There is no locked-down builder; you own every file the moment you download.
A drop-in "What we believe" block with five denominational variants, an editable list of beliefs, and a "What we teach about..." expandable section that walks a curious visitor through the questions visitors actually Google about churches — grace, baptism, the Bible, hell, women in ministry, and six more. You keep what fits, edit the language, and delete what doesn't.
Four pre-written emails sent on days 2, 7, 14, and 30 after a first gift. Each email has three subject-line options, preview text, a plain-text fallback, and an annotated header explaining why the email exists. Paste the four emails into whatever email service your church already uses — Mailchimp, ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign, or a plain HTML send — and the sequence runs on its own.
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