Church website design and apps for nonprofits, in English, Spanish or both
We build websites and apps for churches and community organizations: ministry and event pages, prayer request forms, installable apps with push announcements, and tools your volunteers can actually use. Our deepest work here is in Spanish, and any site we build can be bilingual.
Visitors to a church or nonprofit site usually want something simple: when are services or programs, where are you, who is it for, and how do I get involved or ask for help. The people updating the site are often volunteers with a few minutes on a Sunday afternoon. Good church website design serves both groups.
Service times, location and a page for first-time visitors
A page for each ministry or program, with leaders, schedules and photos
Events and announcements your team can post from a phone
Prayer and help request forms with privacy choices
Links to the giving provider you already use
Member and volunteer sign-ups
Iglesia Evangélica Nueva Visión: a Spanish-first church website
Iglesia Evangélica Nueva Visión is a church in Playas de Rosarito, Baja California. We rebuilt its website, moved it off a hosted CMS to a fast static site, and connected it to the church's prayer app.
The site has a page for each ministry (children, youth, women, men, prayer, worship, the serving team and more), news and events, a prayer-and-fasting calendar and a privacy notice. The prayer request form, prayer wall and testimonies come from the prayer app, and announcements the staff publish there appear on the website within about a minute. Old addresses redirect to clean new URLs. A build check stops the site from publishing if any page still loads something from the old CMS or uses a placeholder photo instead of the church's own. See the Nueva Visión case study or visit iglesiaevangelicanuevavision.org.
Oremos: a prayer request app built as a PWA
Oremos is the church's prayer app. Members ask for prayer and pray for others, and the prayer team reviews and manages requests from a staff panel. It's a progressive web app, so people install it from the browser to their home screen without going through an app store.
We built it with the privacy a prayer ministry needs. The person asking chooses who sees the request: the prayer team only, the public prayer wall, or the pastors only. Notifications never show names or request details on the lock screen. Because the app holds real people's requests, we don't link to it here; we're glad to walk you through it on a call. The Oremos case study has the details.
A prayer wall with an “I prayed” counter, plus answered-prayer testimonies
Announcements and events with add-to-calendar
Web Push notifications and an in-app notification bell, with settings for each person
Roles for members, intercessors, the prayer team, pastors and admins, with sign-ups approved by an admin
AI photo-to-text intake: staff photograph paper prayer forms, AI transcribes them, and a person reviews each one before it's saved
Widgets that bring the form, the wall and the calendar into the church website
Hope: an AI service navigator for Sacramento
Hope is a project of Hope Inc, a Sacramento nonprofit, and it's labeled as pilot software. A person who needs help, or a case worker helping them, describes the situation in their own words by voice or text, and Hope returns a step-by-step plan to local food, shelter, health care and other services. There's no account and no sign-up. It doesn't ask for a name and doesn't keep the person's story.
This kind of nonprofit app development needs care. Hope runs a crisis check first and points people to 911, 988 and 211; it is not a replacement for any of them. The AI that reads the story and writes the plan can fall back from one provider to another, and a plain template path still works if no AI is available. Behind it, staff verify programs from an admin queue with call scripts, and a daily monitor flags programs whose details have changed. See the Hope case study or visit hope.us.com.
Apps and tools we build for churches and nonprofits
Not every organization needs an app, and we'll tell you if yours doesn't. When you do, a progressive web app for your church or nonprofit is often the right fit: one build that works on any phone, installs from the browser and sends push announcements without going through an app store. When the work involves reading forms, sorting requests or answering questions, we add AI features with a person in the loop.
Event and ministry pages that volunteers keep current
Prayer, help and contact request forms with clear privacy choices
Member and volunteer apps with roles and approvals
Push announcements for schedule changes and events
Links to your existing giving provider
Sites and apps in Spanish, English or both
Easy to edit, accessible, and looked after
We build for the people who will maintain the site after launch. Announcements, events and ministry pages are edited from an admin with plain forms, not code. We design for AA color contrast, keyboard use and screen readers, and use real text instead of text inside images, so pages are easier to read for older members and people with low vision.
After launch, someone still has to renew the domain, keep SSL working and make backups. With our managed hosting and maintenance, that's us: one contact for the domain, DNS, SSL, email records and nightly off-site backups. The site itself starts with our website design and development process.
Can volunteers update the site without technical skills?
Yes. Announcements, events and ministry pages are edited from simple forms in an admin. On the Nueva Visión site, announcements published in the prayer app's admin appear on the website within about a minute, so staff only update one place.
Can our website be in Spanish and English?
Yes. We build Spanish-first, English-first or fully bilingual sites. Each language has its own pages, written naturally rather than machine-translated, and the language switch goes to the same page in the other language.
Do we need an app, or is a website enough?
For many churches a good website is enough. An app makes sense when people will use it every week, for example to send and follow prayer requests or to get push announcements. In that case we usually build a progressive web app, which installs from the browser and works on any phone without an app store.
Can you connect online giving?
Yes. We link your site to the giving provider your church or organization already uses and make the giving page easy to find. If you don't have one yet, we can talk through options on a call.
How do you protect prayer requests and personal information?
We collect only what's needed and let people choose who sees their request. In Oremos, a request can go to the prayer team only, the public wall or the pastors only, publishing follows consent rules, and lock-screen notifications never show names or details. Staff access is controlled by roles.
Can AI help a small staff or volunteer team?
In narrow, supervised ways. In Oremos, staff photograph paper prayer forms and AI transcribes them, then a person reviews each one before it's saved. In Hope, AI turns a person's own words into a plan, with a crisis check first and a non-AI fallback. We don't put AI where a person should decide.
