ABOUT WORSHIP TIMES
Worship Times is a company founded by web designers, seminarians, and pastors who are devoted to creating a community dedicated to helping churches access high quality websites for their ministries.

We realized that some large congregations have been able to afford the large cost for web design and hosting but the majority of churches haven’t had the same luxury. Rather than force local congregations to continually reinvent the internet wheel, Worship Times is designed to leverage the strengths of a whole community and to provide cutting edge technologies that will serve your ministry.

Worship Times began in the Spring of 2011 as a joint venture between the web design professionals at Poka Yoke Design, Princeton Theological Seminary Students, and congregational Pastors. What has formed is a company that is dedicated to support the church’s ongoing ministry through cost-effective, high quality web design services tailored specifically for the needs of local congregations.

We started working with small churches, as we’ve grown, we’ve moved forward with custom development, working with large non-profit organizations.

Founder

Michael Gyura
Michael’s love is developing on WordPress, but he spends most days talking with new members. He studied at Augsburg College and Princeton Seminary. Michael was born in Michigan, raised in Minnesota, and has also lived in Colorado, New Jersey, and Tennessee. He is married to Susan Gyura, and together they have five amazing boys/young men. He’s a lover of all things outdoors.

CEO

Susan is responsible for implementing the vision of Worship Times. Susan graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a BS in Communications, and Memphis Theological Seminary with a MA in Religion. Before joining Worship Times, Susan spent four years in communications and 16 years in Christian education, where she also had responsibility for communications, web editing, and video production. She now lives in Germantown, TN, outside Memphis. She is married to Michael Gyura, and together they have five boys/young men. Some of her interests include pilates, traveling, and volunteer work.

Director of Support

Picture of Justin Near in an outdoor setting.
As Director of Support, Justin absolutely loves working with Worship Times partners every day, helping find solutions for ideas, providing instruction, sleuthing problems, and encouraging people to fully utilize their website and integrated platforms. In addition to that daily work, Justin is also a site builder and project manager - working directly with people to manifest their vision is incredibly rewarding! In her “spare” time, Justin chauffeurs two teenagers, homeschools, regularly sings 16th century music, enjoys sci-fi movies and listening to audiobooks and podcasts, and is a fiber artist and educator.

Director of Communications

A head shot of Sara Stanton.
Sara spends her days building relationships and making members’ work lives easier. The people (members and coworkers) are the very best part of working at Worship Times. Sara has a B.S. in Psychology from Middle Tennessee State University and an M.A. in Youth Ministry from Asbury Theological Seminary. She spent six years as a full-time youth pastor then four years as a stay-at-home mom before coming to work at Worship Times. Sara is married to Micah, and they have two great kids, Nora and Wyatt, and a dog, Ellie. (Oh, and a hamster named Fluffy). She loves reading, music, hiking, and sleeping.

Site Builder

A head shot of Jennifer Haley.
Jennifer’s focus at worship times is designing and building beautiful, creative and unique websites for clients. Before joining the team 8 years ago, Jennifer worked in different roles for marketing, advertising and promotions. She is from Middle Tennessee, graduating from MTSU with a degree in Mass Communications. She currently lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee with her husband, Steve and two (almost grown) children. In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys reading, antiquing, thrifting and decorating.

Content Creator

A head shot of Kara Carden.
Kara Carden has worked as a freelance journalist, editor, copywriter and technical writer for more than 20 years. She has published hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines, and written marketing materials of all kinds. She’s a proud professional member of the American Society of Journalists & Authors, a homeschooling parent, amateur herbalist, and community organizer. She and her husband enjoy raising their blended family of four children, two of whom are now baby adults. They are developing a TN homestead together.

Team's Experience


Worship Times has a team of communicators that have years of experience in ministry.

• SEMINARY DEGREES
• FULL SERVICE WEBSITE DESIGN & MAINTENANCE
• IT SUPPORT
• SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
• DATA SECURITY AND BACKUPS
• SOCIAL MEDIA
• DESIGN
• PUBLIC IDENTITY MANAGEMENT & PUBLIC RELATIONS
• PRINT AND PROMOTION
• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, INDESIGN
• VIDEO PRODUCTION AND EDITING
• MEDIA RELATIONS
• 50+ YEARS OF MINISTRY EXPERIENCE
• AND 2 PKS

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