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.
Get in touchThis 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 | How churches 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 |
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. Setup, Cloudflare deployment, and domain configuration are included, so your church doesn't need an in-house developer to get it live.
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 run — without buying gear your church doesn't need. On-site visits for churches in the Leeds/Birmingham, AL area; remote consulting over video call for everyone else.
A quick gut check before you reach out.
None of these are required for a working site. Each is a switch you can turn on later, only if your church wants it — and since I built ChurchKit myself, nothing is locked down. Whether you don't use Planning Center, rely on a different ChMS, or prefer another video host, everything can be customized to fit what your church uses.
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? I can build a custom integration for whatever system your church runs on.
Pull sermon video straight from your church's YouTube channel onto the site automatically, with no manual uploading or re-hosting.
An iOS/Android app for your church — sermons, Bible, check-in, giving, and push notifications — built from the same ChurchKit platform as the website.
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.
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.
Owning it outright means a few small bills come directly to you, not through me:
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.
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, with sites built on ChurchKit, an open-source church website platform I wrote and maintain.
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 and feel, so sites come out polished, not just functional.
Interested in a church website or Sunday AV help? Email me directly — tell me a bit about your church and what you're looking for, and I'll reply personally.