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Case study · Church platform · Live

A church that owns its own home.

A small Woodruff congregation needed a real online home — sermon archive, prayer list, event calendar, weekly bulletin — without renting it back from a platform forever.

A Woodruff congregation site: sermon archive, prayer list and weekly bulletin
$0/moPlatform fees
15Sermons archived
140+Prayers fielded
LiveIn weekly use

The problem

Every “church website” service wanted a monthly subscription to host the church’s own content, forever, with the data locked inside someone else’s platform. The congregation wanted the opposite: a site it controls.

What I built

A full church site on infrastructure the church controls. One login runs the whole thing: upload a sermon, post a prayer request, add an event. No developer in the loop for weekly updates — a member keeps it current himself.

The result

Live and in weekly use. As of November 2026, 15 sermons archived, 140+ prayer requests fielded through the system, and zero recurring platform fees on content the church already owns.

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