A real church website — free, and it already knows your church.
Drag, drop, publish. GLAD's page builder ships a real website that's live-connected to the church data you already manage — events, sermons, prayer, giving — so the site a visitor sees is always the church that actually exists this week. No designer, no code, no second subscription.
A brochure site starts going stale the moment you hit publish.
Your website should be a window into your church — not a poster about it.
The usual setup is two systems: a website builder you pay for, and church software you also pay for — with a volunteer in the middle re-typing every event, every sermon, every service time into both. The site drifts out of date, and the first thing a visitor learns about your church is that nobody's updated the website. GLAD ends the re-typing: the website is the system.
Update it once. It's everywhere.
These aren't decorative blocks — they're windows into your live church data. A brochure site can't do this.
Events & calendar
Add an event in GLAD once — the website calendar, the event list and the member portal all show it. Cancel it, and it's gone everywhere, too.
Sermon library
Post Sunday's message and the library updates itself — series, speakers, the latest sermon front and center. No Monday-morning website chore.
A living prayer wall
Visitors leave a request right on your site — no account needed — a leader approves it, and it joins the wall. Your website ministers before anyone walks in.
Giving, on the site
A give button that's part of the same platform as your books — gifts land in real records with receipts handled, not in a third-party iframe you reconcile by hand.
Forms & sign-ups
Publish contact forms, sign-ups and registrations built in GLAD's form builder — responses arrive as structured submissions, not a shared inbox.
Galleries & your story
Photo galleries, staff pages, ministry highlights, service times — the evergreen pages every church needs, assembled from the same widget library.
"Update the website" stops being a job.
On a brochure site, every change is two changes: fix the real thing, then remember to fix the website. On GLAD there is no second change — the site reads from the same records your church runs on.
- Move an event to 7:00 — the site calendar, event page and member portal already say 7:00
- Approve a prayer request in admin — it appears on the public wall
- Post a sermon — the library reorders itself, newest first
- A gift comes in through the site — it lands in real books with the receipt handled
Built by whoever's free on Tuesday.
If you can rearrange a bulletin, you can build this website. No code, no themes marketplace, no "call our design team."
Drag, drop, done
Pick widgets from the library, drop them where they go, reorder until it feels right. What you see in the editor is what visitors get.
Themes that swap in one click
Ready-made color-and-style themes recolor the whole site at once — every widget, every page, consistently. Change your mind in October? One click.
Mobile-ready by default
Every widget renders responsive automatically — because the person googling "church near me" on Saturday night is holding a phone, not a laptop.
Free that means free.
The Starter tier is $0 forever — and the website builder on it is the whole builder, not a teaser with the good widgets locked.
No credit card. No trial clock quietly counting down to an invoice.
Events, sermons, prayer wall, giving, forms, galleries — the full library on the free tier.
Website, member data, giving and events in one login — not a builder plus a ChMS.
The whole fine print, out loud: on the free Starter tier your site runs on a GLAD subdomain (like yourchurch.ministrysaas.com), Starter caps at 50 people, and online gifts carry a 1% platform fee that drops to 0% on paid plans. Want the site at your own address? Connecting a domain you own — a DNS-verified CNAME — is included on the Church tier and above.
See the whole pricing pageThe website is chapter one
The same platform behind your site runs the rest of your church, too. Keep reading:
Questions churches ask us
Someone will google your church tonight.
Let them find a site that's current, warm, and already knows what's happening this Sunday. Starter is free — your site could be live before you close the laptop.
