Create your church's website

ChurchBox gives your church its own website at christian.com/church/your-church. It's free to start and brings your page, feed, events, streams and giving into one place. You can build it right away; it goes public once our team verifies the church.

Create the site

1. Sign in and go to /churches/create. You can also click Create a church site on Your churches (/manage/churches).
2. Your church: enter the Church name and check the Web address. It's filled in from the name; change it if you like. You'll see whether christian.com/church/your-address is available. Add your Denomination or tradition and One line about your church if you want. Click Continue.
3. Where to find you: enter the City (required), plus Street address, State, ZIP, Church email, Phone and Current website (if any). Click Continue.
4. Verification: under Your role and how we can verify it, tell us your role and how we can confirm it, for example a staff page that lists you or a church email address.
5. Click Create church.

You'll see that your church is set up, with two buttons: Edit your site and Open the church portal.

What happens next

• Our team verifies the church, usually within two business days. Until then, Your churches shows Awaiting verification and the portal says your site goes public once verified.
• You're the church's owner. Build your site in the editor (see /help/admins/edit-your-church-site) and add your team (see /help/admins/invite-your-team).
• Once live, your site has these pages: Home, Feed, Watch, Events, Groups and Give. The Give page sends people to /give with your church already chosen.

Good to know

• The web address uses 3 to 60 lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens. Some addresses are reserved.
• By continuing you confirm you're authorized to represent the church. If someone already manages it, or it's already listed, claim it at /list-your-organization instead.
• A church that was claimed rather than created here gets its site when the church is approved.
• ChurchBox starts on Church Free. Paid tiers add templates and more (see /help/admins/churchbox-plans).