by
Aaron
12/20/10
Earlier in the year we launched Christ Church East Bay using WebEngine. I knew that my local church, Grace SLO, could use a similarly functioning site. The previous site had many shortcomings that could be easily addressed with the functionality provided by WebEngine.
So I called up my pastor, Tim, and asked if he wanted help setting up a new site for our church. He was very excited about the possibilities so we set an aggressive launch and got to work. We looked a wide variety of other church sites and analyzed what worked well from an aesthetic and ministry perspective.

Originally the goals for the new site where simple:
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Create an easy to use and informative Website
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Make it easier to find church resources (i.e. Sunday sermons, special event recordings)
As with most projects there was some feature creep as the possibilities where realized of how much a new Website would help the ministry of the church.
By the time we launched the new site we had accomplished the original goals plus:
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Consolidate event listings sign-ups using a combination Google Calendar & Docs
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Provide a dynamic place for every one of Grace's growing ministries
The Grace website is know seen as a dynamic extension of the church that is constantly being updated and tended to. We plan to continuously add new features and functionality to meet the growing needs of Grace.