Christ, our foundation

Church-membership is no foundation of hope. We may belong to the best of Churches, and yet never belong to Christ. We may fill our pew regularly every Sunday, and hear the sermons of orthodox, ordained clergymen, and yet never hear the voice of Jesus, or follow Him. If we have nothing better than Church-membership to rest upon we are in a poor plight—we have nothing solid beneath our feet. Christ Himself is the only true foundation of a good hope. ~ J.C. Ryle

The necessity of religion

"Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” George Washingtion

Christianity, the hope of nations

"No man can study the movement of modern civilization from an impartial standpoint and not realize that Christianity and the spread of Christianity are the basis of hope of modern civilization in the growth of popular self-government. The spirit of Christianity is pure democracy. It is equality of man before God—the equality of man before the law, which is, as I understand it, the most God-like manifestation that man has been able to make." William Howard Taft

Government needs religion

"It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports"

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Our purpose

Small Church Helps exists to help and encourage small churches and other small ministries. Having been a missionary, a pastor of small churches, and an evangelist I have a lot of insight into the special needs of smaller ministries.

This site is a growing ministry so check back often.

My special area of expertise is using the internet to enhance and expand your ministry. I have been building and hosting websites for more than 20 years. Because I have always been involved in small ministries with a limited budget I understand the needs of those with tight budgets.

I also understand that pastors of small ministries are very busy people and don’t have time to learn the code necessary to build a website and have very little time to keep one up to date. For the last 20 years I have been helping just such people build attractive websites and keep them up to date with very little effort.

In truth, how important is a website to a church? I recently retired from pastoring a church in Washington state and moved to North Carolina. I though finding a good church in the “Bible Belt” would be a relatively easy thing. I started my search on the internet and found that half of the Baptist churches in our little town did not have a website. There are at least 90 Baptist churches in our town of about 18,000 and if I went to one a week to check them out it would have taken me almost two years. Those without websites did not get visited even though we may have bypassed a really good church.

There are other reasons for a church to have a website which you can read about in my post on why a church should have a website.

Excuses For Not Having A Website

I don’t have time to mess with a website – Our Simple Site Solution solves this problem.
It is difficult to find someone willing and able to do the work – Once our Simple Site Solution is set up it takes very little time and very little skill to keep your site up to date and we will train whoever does it.
It’s too costly – Our Simple Site Solution is less expensive than a small ad in the Yellow Pages and much more effective.
The Internet is an evil place – The world is an evil place but that doesn’t mean we don’t live in it. A good online ministry can reach some of those “evil people” for Christ.
I don’t see any need for a website – Read my article on why churches need websites.
Too hard to keep up to date – Our training will show you how to do this with very little effort.

Here is what you get with our Simple Site Solution:

A domain name
A custom website with a home page, an about us page, a ministries page, a contact page, and the ability to easily add more pages.
A special blog page
Email accounts with your domain name
One hour of personal training
Video lessons to show you how it is done
Online support
Many extras can be added for a small fee

All for a setup charge of $270 including first year’s hosting and $120 per year after that.

Small Church Helps