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A church website that welcomes before Sunday

Most first-time visitors look a church up before they walk in. The site is the handshake at the door, and it should carry the same warmth.

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What a site has to do before a first Sunday

  • Answer a first-time visitor’s questions

    Service times, parking, what to expect and what happens with the kids. A plan-your-visit page that covers those four does more for a nervous newcomer than homepage polish.

  • Make giving easy on a phone

    A gift takes a few taps, recurring or one-time, with a clear choice of fund like missions or the building project.

  • Keep the teaching within reach

    A sermon library by series and passage keeps homebound members and people who moved away connected.

  • Get events out of the bulletin

    A calendar worth checking, with signups for the retreat and midweek groups, saves the office from being the reminder system.

Dawnbrook Community Church

Handwritten connect cards become person records, and a note marked private goes to the pastor’s confidential care lane. Dawnbrook is a company we invented, so we could build its website and back office in full.

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Behind the giving page

Most congregations run Planning Center or Breeze for people and check-ins, with giving through a processor like Stripe. The work is making those pieces agree with the website.

  • Giving that reconciles

    Recurring gifts, fund designations, pledges and year-end statements reconcile with whoever keeps the books.

  • A member area for the church family

    Directories and prayer requests sit behind a login and stay within the church family.

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Where AI helps church staff

  • Sermons you can search

    Each week’s message is transcribed and summarized for the library and reviewed by staff, so the archive is searchable by passage or topic.

  • First drafts of the bulletin

    Announcements become a working draft the office edits, and the voice stays the church’s because a person always finishes it.

  • Welcome cards, read and filed

    In the Dawnbrook build, a first-time family’s handwritten card is read and filed, with any private note kept private, so a neighbor can welcome them by Tuesday.

A welcoming site comes first, then giving and the member area

We start with a conversation about your congregation, whether you meet in a school gym or a century-old parish, and shape the scope to it.

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