Church Website Resources

Does your Church Have a web site?

If not here are some resources that can help you get your church connected on the internet.

Web Hosting Resources

General Board of Global Ministries - Free

The General Board of Global Ministries provides 20 megabytes of web space free-of-charge to United Methodist churches, districts, conferences, jurisdictions, United Methodist Women's groups and other United Methodist organizations that have been approved. They do not provide any templates so you will have to have your own solution and update the website by FTP.

Cross Spot - Plans Starting at $24.95/month

CrossSpot.com has just launched great new product earlier this year called MinistryBuilder. MinistryBuilder is a self-managed website which will allow you to easy add and fully update your own unlimited pages. MinistryBuilder puts full customization back into your hands. MinistryBuilder has a tremendous number of modules for your use including Staff List, Calendars, Newsletter, Daily Devotional, PhotoGallery, FormBuilder, File Attachment Manager, and many others. FormBuilder will allow you to build forms for many applications such as online conference registration, even take money online via Paypal!

Build Your Home With God - Free

Build Your Home With God offers 50 Megabytes Free Web Space - More space if you need it, no Set Up Fees, no monthly fees, 24/7 personal technical support, free christian guestbooks, free christian prayer books, free christian recommend me (Tell A Friend) Service, pre-built templates, ez web HTML page builder, versatile advanced editor tools, plus much more. This site is supported by adds though, so you will have banner adds on top of your website.

For Ministry - Free; additional cost for more adavanced services

ForMinistry, an Internet ministry of the American Bible Society, equips churches for effective ministry online. ForMinistry - which is completely donor supported - provides powerful, easy-to-use tools for local churches, church-based ministries, denominational bodies, and Christian nonprofit organizations.

Our Church - Price ranges from free (supported by advertising) up to $37.00/month

OurChurch.Com offers a wide variety of hosting plans and hosting packages. They have everything from Free advertising supported to more advanced features such as web builder, contact form, guest book, news, prayer request, automated sitemap, calendar, blog enewsletter, gallery, paypal cart.

True Path - $4.95 and up

Basic hosting site that offers Disk Space for Web Content (MB), Disk Space for Databases (MB), Disk Space for Email (MB), Data Transfer (GB per month), Domain Names, SubDomains, Third level domains, Parked Domains, Email Accounts, Control Panel, Summary Disk Usage, (web, mail, db). you will need to privide your own web master to use they site. The do not offer any web development tools to assist you or you can pay them to design your site for you.

Jesus Answers - Starts at $2.00/month and ranges to $25.00/month

They offer advanced site building tools to help you create a web site. The packages offer mainly the same features. The difference is in web space and email accounts offered.

E-ZEKIEL - From $19.95/month + $50 set-up fee up to $99.95/month + $150 set-up fee

Pricing consists of four levels of service: Bronze ($19.95/month, $50 set-up), Silver ($34.95/month, $75 set-up), Gold ($69.95/month, $100 set-up), and Platinum ($99.95/month, $150 set-up). Features, such as message boards and email, increase with cost. For example, the Bronze plan gives you 10 MB of webspace, 10 pages, and 1 email address, while the Platinum plan gives you 50 MB of webspace, 500 pages, and 25 email addresses. Domain names are available for each category. Syndicated material is available to add to a site on numerous topics including daily devotions, Bible studies, Christian family living, health, finances. UMCom now offers the E-ZEKIEL WEB HOSTING solution to local churches and UM organizations at significant (15-35%) discounts. E-zekiel also provides over 250 high quality Web site designs just for churches. Simple content editing tools require no technical skill or special software. For more information, go to http://www.umc.e-zekiel.com.

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