Website Features
While the doors to your sanctuary may be closed at night, your website is open for visitors twenty-four hours a day. Having a website that reflects the character of your congregation is essential to your ongoing ministry. Worship Times has been built from the ground up with church ministries in mind. Come on in and see how Worship Times will support your ministry.
Support
Worship Times is formed by a community of churches which are dedicated to helping each other minister faithfully in the quickly advancing technological age. As technology changes and grows, we believe that churches will need a strong advocate who can help walk beside, listen, and train churches in the most current technological tools. As a [...]
See it in actionPodcasting
Have you been looking for a way to provide your congregation a tool to keep up with your weekly sermons even if they are away from home? Have you looked into setting up an iTunes podcast and been discouraged by the complexity of the system? Look no further for your integrated podcasting/website solution. Worship Times [...]
See it in actionMobile Support
Mobile devices are the fastest growing method of connecting to the internet. Most websites designed more than three to five years ago were built before web designers realized the vast market penetration of mobile devices. Today, however, websites must be built with mobile viewers in mind since so many users rely so heavily on [...]
Social Media
Worship Times is built from the ground up with your community in mind. As churches begin to connect more extensively through social networking, your church’s website will need to adapt to the new connectional fabric. There are no complicated procedures which you have to go through in order to connect your church website and your [...]
See it in actionWebcasts
Utilizing state of the art webcast technology, we host regular training sessions for nominal cost for our Worship Times members. We understand that sometimes you have questions and needs which can only be properly addressed through personal communication and so we make your needs our priority. Our newest members often have little idea how many [...]
Web Forms
Like any good sermon, your church website should invite your guests to respond. Does your current website allow your members or guests to contact you? Do you currently include your church staff’s email addresses on your website? In the age of internet bots and scam artists, you should never include email addresses anywhere on your [...]
See it in actionHosting
If you have ever had to deal with corporate hosting solutions you are well acquainted with storage space caps, data transfer limits, FTP, SSL, and piles of other industry jargon. Managing a highly optimized hosting solution for websites will only become more complicated as the internet continues to mature and far too many churches have their websites [...]
See it in actionUse Your Own Unique Domain Name
Your website domain is your internet address (e.g. worshiptimes.org). Having a simple and easy to remember internet domain is critical so that your congregation and guests can easily find your church website. Some churches have not purchased a domains but instead use sub-domains (e.g. default.worshiptimes.org). Sub-domains are often cheaper, if fact, they are often free. Unfortunately, however, [...]
See it in actionContent Management System
A Content Management System should combine an intuitive user interface, industry standard editing features, and robust security functionality. In able to provide a cutting edge CMS system, Worship Times is built upon the non-profit WordPress.org CMS. We have chosen to use the WordPress CMS for a number of reasons: It enjoys high industry penetration. Did you [...]
Design Themes
Ministries grow and change and so should your website. As your ministry grows, you can easily customize your website to reflect your changing ministry. Does your site’s design seem antiquated? You can change the entire theme (layout, color scheme, and etc) with the click of a button. That’s right– no more need to go through [...]
Learning Center
For far too long, churches have been limited by their technology rather than being empowered by it. Web developers often sell you a website solution and then leave you to figure out how to use it shortly after you have made your payment. At Worship Times we have an integrated video learning center where you [...]
Community
The Worship Times community is central to our mission. While one church alone does not have the time or resources to develop all the tools necessary for high quality church websites, many churches together do. We are a community for a community. As the community grows, strategic partnerships and communal feedback will determine how Worship [...]
Customizability
The Easy Website Launcher makes Worship Times the easiest way for your ministry to create a website. Underneath the Launcher, however, is a highly customizable WordPress framework. In order to create a website that reflects the unique character of your ministry, we try hard to give you the options necessary to make the website your [...]
Contact Forms
Ideally, your website should not be a one way conversation. Your website should invite your guests to initiate a conversation with you. Maybe a prospective guest has a question regarding service times, or a longtime member has questions regarding the next leadership meeting. Either way, your website should be able to gather information from your [...]
See it in actionPublication Tools
Many churches find that creating a website is only half the problem. It is one thing to make a good looking website; it is an entirely different matter to make that website useful for all the ministries of the church. Worship Times comes preloaded with robust Integrated Publications Support. No more complicated systems to update [...]
Church Events and Calendar
Keep your church members up to date with upcoming church functions using the events manager built into Worship Times.
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