Quiet, careful church websites.

Small, fast, calm websites for parishes — $100 to build and get found on Google, set up in a week. Yours to host, or ours to keep tended for $5 a month.

Two ways to do it

• $100 one-time

  Build & handoff

  One conversation, one week, a finished site, and the search setup that gets you found: your Google listing, Search Console and the UMC Find-a-Church page. We hand you the keys — you can host it anywhere and change it whenever you like. No ongoing fee.

• $100 one-time
  + $5/mo hosting

  Build & host

  Same build, but we host and tend it. Includes up to two minor updates a month — service times, staff changes, a new event poster. Bigger updates or full redesigns are $100 again. Cancel anytime; the site reverts to handoff.

What you get

A site that loads fast, reads well on a phone, and tells visitors what they actually want to know — service times, where you are, who you are, how to reach someone. Photos drawn from your parish. Copy edited from a short discovery call. Live within a week.

And people can find it. The build includes a real domain in your church’s name, your Google Business Profile claimed and pointing at the site, Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster set up and verified with your sitemap submitted, and your UMC Find-a-Church listing corrected. We walk you through each step, and if your Google listing is held by someone who has moved on, we help you request ownership of it.

And it’s safe. The build includes a short security consultation about your domain and your email: who controls the domain and when it renews, whether someone could send email pretending to be your pastor, and two-step sign-in on the accounts that matter. We tell you what to change and walk you through it. If you want to read ahead, our free church security guide covers the same ground.

And it stays current, because keeping it current isn’t a chore. See how edits work →

What we don’t do

A church website is the front door, not the bulletin board. Most parishes misuse them as Facebook-lite — every Sunday’s announcement, every birthday, every potluck. We don’t build sites that demand constant feeding. The bulletin and the Sunday email are better tools for that. The website is for the people who don’t know you yet.

Examples

No two nave.build sites look alike — each is built around your own building, your own photos, your own voice. Here are six design concepts showing the range, before we’ve seen a single photo of your parish.

• St. Michael's UMC

  Concept · Traditional, Hill Country limestone

  A type-led design for a 19th-century limestone sanctuary — no photography required, built around a mortar-line motif that echoes coursed stone.

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• Cedar Creek Community Church

  Concept · Warm, rural, brick

  A casual, homespun register for a rural congregation — an illustrated barn silhouette in place of a photo, and a cornerstone plaque for its founding story.

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• The Bridge

  Concept · Contemporary, urban

  A bright, energetic register for a genuinely contemporary church — bold type, diagonal sections, and a palette that skips the moody-dark cliché.

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• Nueva Esperanza UMC

  Concept · Bilingual, Rio Grande Valley

  A genuinely bilingual register with a live English/Español toggle — a citrus-country palette and a founding story dated like a packing-crate label.

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• Understory Church

  Concept · Church plant, no building at all

  A young church plant that rents a second-run movie theater on Sundays — no building photo to draw from, so the palette comes from the rented room instead.

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• Palacios UMC

  Concept · Gulf Coast fishing town

  A working shrimping-town register with a hurricane-history timeline as its signature — a chronology, not decoration, marked against the fellowship hall's own pier posts.

  View concept →

Prefer a real, live parish site? Jackson Chapel UMC, San Marcos → or Covenant UMC, Austin →

Getting started is short

A normal web-design engagement runs on kickoff calls, creative briefs, a sitemap to approve, wireframes to sign off on, and rounds of revisions — a month or two of back-and-forth before anything is built. Ours is a short form and one conversation: your service times, your address, who to reach, and a handful of things that make the place yours, plus two things for search: who holds your Google listing and who controls your domain. Most churches finish it in the time it takes to answer a few emails.