Church events,
always up to date
Interactive calendars, newsrooms and a file library on your own church website, with the preaching plan beside each church and everything updated from the Chrestos Cloud.
Where people look to find out what is on
A church events calendar is often the most visited part of a church website, and the hardest to keep current. Someone asks what time the carol service starts, or whether the lunch club is on this week, and the honest answer is that the website was last updated in the spring. Chrestos tries to make the calendar the easy part.
The Web Design Tools let you add interactive calendars to your site and keep them up to date from the Chrestos Cloud. An event is added once and appears on the calendar for anybody who visits, on a phone, a tablet or a computer screen. The anniversary tea, the Covenant Service, the circuit meeting and the jumble sale can all sit in one place, and when a date changes it changes for everybody at once.
An online church calendar that keeps up
An online church calendar only helps if it is right. Because the calendar is part of the same site as everything else, the person who adds the coffee morning can add it to the calendar in the same sitting. There is no second system to log in to and no separate password to forget.
If your circuit uses Planmaker, the plan does a good deal of the work for you. Coming services appear beside each church on your website automatically, and people can subscribe so the services land in the calendar on their own phone. Those calendar subscriptions save anybody copying dates out by hand. The preacher, the time and the place are taken straight from the plan, so nobody has to type them twice.
A church website calendar, with news alongside
Dates rarely travel alone. A church website calendar sits happily beside the other things a busy church needs to share. You can have more than one newsroom or church blog, say one for the circuit and one for each church, as well as maps, a service search and a protected page for your circuit directory. A church newsroom carries the story of the event after the date has passed, and a church file library keeps the minutes and agendas that go with the meetings on the calendar. Each is added and changed in the same way, so once you have learnt one you have learnt them all.
How it fits together
The calendar, the news and the files are all part of the Web Design Tools, our church website builder in the Chrestos Cloud. Every page you add takes on your own branding, which is explained on our page about church website templates. The Web Design Tools come with Chrestos Classic and Chrestos Premium; with Chrestos Essentials we make the changes for you.
None of this will fill the pews on its own. It simply means that when somebody wants to know what is happening on Sunday, the website tells them.
What the calendar pages can carry
The dates, the news and the papers people come looking for.
Interactive calendars
Add an event once and it appears on your website’s calendar for anybody who visits, whether they arrive on a phone, a tablet or a computer.
Newsrooms and blogs
Run more than one newsroom or blog area, perhaps one for the circuit and one for each church, all changed in the same simple way as the rest.
Files and minutes
Keep minutes, agendas and other papers in a file library on the site, so the latest copy is always where people expect to find it.
Services beside
each church
If your circuit uses Planmaker, coming services appear beside each church on your Chrestos website automatically. The preacher, the time and the place come straight from the plan.
People can subscribe, so services land in the calendar on their own phone, and nobody has to copy the plan out by hand.
Maps, search and
a private directory
Alongside the calendar you can add maps, a service search and a protected page for your circuit directory, so visitors find their way and members find each other.
Everything is placed and sized for phones, tablets and desktops, with nothing extra to set up, and each part is added and changed in the same way as the rest of your site.
See a calendar
in action
Tell us a little about your church, circuit or district and we will show you a live site with its calendar and news, with no obligation.
"...We highly recommend ThenMedia Chrestos who have designed, hosted and supported our church website since 2015. They listened to our needs, exceeded expectations in design and ensured smooth content transfer from our previous site. Andrew, Toby and John have given us patient and effective telephone support..."
Is your calendar a little out of date?
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