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Church websites, and Sunday mornings that just work.

I build church websites on ChurchKit, the open-source platform I created and run in production for my own church. A website is the core product, complete on its own — Planning Center sync, YouTube sermons, and a mobile app are optional add-ons, only if you want them. I also do practical, hands-on consulting for Sunday morning AV: sound, cameras, switchers, and livestream setups a volunteer can actually run.

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What I offer

This isn't Wix, Squarespace, or WordPress with a church theme on top. Those are general-purpose builders, and it shows: plugin bloat, slow pages, and a drag-and-drop editor one volunteer click away from breaking the layout. ChurchKit is built around what a church actually has — staff, ministries, events, sermons, service times — with editing simple enough for church staff and volunteers, and hard to accidentally wreck.

	Wix / Squarespace / WordPress	ChurchKit
Built for	Blogs and small businesses in general	How churches actually operate
Editing	Drag-and-drop, easy to break the layout	Structured fields, hard to break
Performance	Plugins pile up, pages get slower	Lean by design, stays fast
Ownership	Your content, their platform	Your church owns the code, account, and data

Church Websites

A branded website with pages, staff, ministries, and events, built on ChurchKit — the platform I personally wrote and maintain, not a third-party template. This alone is a complete, working site. Provisioning, Cloudflare deployment, and domain setup are included, so your church doesn't need an in-house developer to get it live.

Sunday AV & Livestream Consulting

Practical help with the Sunday morning setup: audio gain staging and routing, switcher workflows, camera placement, and a booth layout a rotating volunteer crew can actually run — without buying gear your church doesn't need.

Optional add-ons

None of these are required to have a working site. Each is a switch you can turn on later, only if your church wants it — and since I wrote ChurchKit myself, none of it is fixed. No Planning Center, a different ChMS, a different video host: it can be customized to fit what your church actually uses.

Planning Center Sync

Connect the site to the Planning Center data your staff already keeps current — services, groups, and giving — instead of a second system to maintain by hand. Don't use Planning Center, or use something else entirely? Since I wrote the platform, I can build a custom integration for whatever system your church actually runs on.

YouTube Sermons

Pull sermon video straight from your church's YouTube channel onto the site automatically, with no manual uploading or re-hosting.

Mobile App

An iOS/Android app for your church — sermons, Bible, check-in, giving, and push notifications — built from the same ChurchKit platform as the website.

How it works

Your church owns everything

The code, the Cloudflare account, the domain, and the data all belong to your church outright, not me. No vendor lock-in, no hostage domains, and no mandatory monthly retainer.

One-and-done, or ongoing

I can build the site, hand over full ownership, and step away — that's a complete engagement on its own. If you'd rather not handle updates and hosting yourselves, I also offer ongoing maintenance. Either way works; it's entirely your call.

Costs that stay with your church

Owning it outright means a few small bills come directly to you, not through me:

A yearly domain renewal (typically $10–20/year), billed by your registrar
Cloudflare hosting — free for nearly all church traffic; cost only kicks in if the site sees unusually heavy usage
Any add-on you turn on that has its own subscription (Planning Center) or store fee (Apple/Google, if you add the mobile app)

I walk you through all of it

You won't be handed a pile of logins and left to figure it out. I set up each account with you — Cloudflare, your domain registrar, anything else — and explain exactly what you're paying for and why, before you pay it.

About

I'm Blake Nolen, a software developer by trade. Faithful Path Consulting is a sole proprietorship offering church websites and Sunday morning AV/livestream consulting. Sites are built on ChurchKit, an open-source church website platform I wrote and maintain — a complete site on its own, with Planning Center sync, YouTube sermons, and a mobile app available as optional add-ons.

I'm the volunteer technology leader at Cedar Grove Baptist Church in Leeds, AL, where I built ChurchKit to be the backbone of our own online presence — website, admin panel, and mobile app all running on it in production, not just a demo. The AV consulting comes from the same place: running our own booth on real Sunday mornings.

My wife Erica works alongside me on look, feel, and design, so sites come out well-built and well-designed, not just functional.

This name is a placeholder while the business is being formally registered.