Home / Build
Custom church app & website development
We don't just recommend it. We build it.
Your church app and website, built by the person who also tells you what to build, and connected to the tools you already run: Planning Center, your small groups, your livestream. It is where your people find the daily devotional, their group's guide and each other during the week. No agency handoff, no ticket queue, no waiting three days to fix a typo on your own site.
What we build
Three things, and the seams between them.
iOS and Android app development.
An app your people have a reason to open on a Tuesday. The week's devotional tied to Sunday's actual message, the small-group guide waiting in each group's room, in-app chat for circles and groups so somebody notices when a person goes quiet, notifications that respect an evening, and a second language that is genuinely equal rather than a menu item.
We also carry the part nobody warns you about: App Store and Play submission, the review questionnaires, trader verification, and an internal testing track so your staff finds the bugs before your congregation does.
Websites people can actually find.
A site that loads before your visitor decides to leave, and that Google and the AI answer engines can actually read. Built multilingual from the start, because a translate widget tells a family they were an afterthought.
Most church sites are not ugly. They are invisible... beautiful, slow, unstructured, and quietly opted out of being found. Those are different problems and they need different fixes.
The machinery underneath.
The unglamorous layer that decides whether any of it survives past month three. AI drafts, a human signs off before anybody reads a word, your data lives in one place, and nobody spends Monday retyping Sunday into four systems.
This is the part churches skip and then quietly abandon the app they paid for, because keeping it fed turned into somebody's second job.
Built, not pitched
One church, the whole stack.
Christchurch Miami is a 200-seat church in Miami. Everything on this page is running there, and you can go look at it rather than take my word for it.
The website. Bilingual English and Spanish, Astro on Cloudflare, every sermon published as searchable pages in both languages. It outranks churches ten times its size in local search, which is not a compliment to me... it is an indictment of how little of this the average church site does.
The app. iOS and Android from one codebase, daily rhythm off the weekend message, circles, both languages, push that respects a person's evening. Built here, submitted by us, and carried through both stores' review the same way every app I have published has been.
The machinery. The kids pipeline produces ten surfaces a week. Devotionals draft against a voice profile built per communicator from their own sermons. Scripture is never written by a model, it is fetched and attributed. A human reviews everything before a congregation sees it.
Total new staff hired to run all of it: none. One part-time contractor.
How it goes
Embedded, then gone.
A build is not a retainer. The point is to hand you something that works and then stop being necessary, which is a strange thing for a vendor to say out loud and the reason I say it early.
We talk first, and it is free. Thirty minutes, no deck. Half the time the honest answer is that you do not need what I sell, and you will get that answer in the meeting instead of after the invoice.
Then we scope it narrowly. A fixed shape with a fixed price, not an hourly meter that rewards me for going slow. If the scope grows we talk about it before it grows, not on the bill.
Then we build in your tools, in the open. Your repository, your accounts, your name on everything. You watch it happen instead of receiving a reveal.
Then we hand it off properly. Documentation written for whoever comes after me, including the parts I would rather not admit were held together with tape. If you want to take it in-house or hand it to another developer in two years, nothing about how it was built will stop you.
Pricing is scoped per project, because a five-page site for a church plant and a bilingual app for a multisite are not the same job and quoting them the same way would mean one of you is subsidizing the other.
Before you ask
The questions that actually come up.
Do we have to buy Multiply to get a website or an app?
No. Build work stands on its own. Plenty of churches need a site that can actually be found, or an app worth opening, and nothing else. If you later want the content engine running on top of it, the door is open... it is not a condition of working together.
Can we make changes to the website ourselves?
Of course. You would be amazed how often a church has to file a ticket and wait three days to fix a typo, and I am not building you another one of those.
Christchurch Miami runs their own site. Their team writes and publishes blog posts, updates the marketing pages, edits the FAQs, swaps hero images, and rewrites a meta description without opening a line of code or asking me first. They do it in a visual editor on the site itself, in English and Spanish, and they do not wait on anybody.
Every change is version-controlled underneath, which matters the first time somebody deletes the wrong paragraph on a Saturday night. Nothing is unrecoverable. The parts you should not be able to break are the parts you cannot reach.
From scratch, or on a church app platform?
From scratch, in code you own. And a caveat against my own interest: the platforms are reasonable for a lot of churches and cheaper than I am. If a template fits, take the template and keep your money. Custom is worth it when you need something the platform will not do... a daily rhythm tied to this week's sermon, a second language that is genuinely equal, a pipeline that publishes without a staff member retyping it.
Do we own the code?
Yes. The repository is yours, the developer accounts are in the church's name, and the handoff assumes I will not be here forever. Ask any vendor this question before you sign, and notice how long the answer takes.
Can you work with the site we already have?
Often, yes. Sometimes the honest answer is that the platform underneath is the problem and a rebuild costs less than fighting it for three more years. You will hear which one you are looking at before you have spent anything... including the version where your site is fine and your real problem is somewhere else entirely.
How long does this take?
A website is measured in weeks, an app in months. Both depend far more on how fast decisions get made on your side than on how fast anything gets written. The slowest part of most builds is waiting on content, photography, and one approval from a committee that meets monthly.
What are you actually trying to fix?
Bring the problem, not a spec. Thirty minutes with Jeff, no deck, no pitch... and a straight answer about whether this is worth building at all.
Book a meeting with Jeff →