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First Baptist Church Muncie
First Baptist Church Muncie
A full church website for a multigenerational Baptist congregation in Indiana that organized active children, youth, and adult ministries under one clear digital roof.
Outcome
Active children, youth, and adult ministries each given a clear home of their own.
Role: Designer, Developer
Built with: Wix, ChurchCenter
- Strategy
- Web Design
Tags: Church, Wix, ChurchCenter, Multi-ministry
The brief
First Baptist Church in Muncie, Indiana is an active, multigenerational congregation at 309 East Adams Street. Sunday worship draws families with young children, teenagers in their own active youth program, and adults across a wide age range, all with different information needs and different reasons for visiting the website.
The church had a lot going on: regular worship, children and youth ministries with their own communication cadences, an adult education program, outreach initiatives, a historic building with notable architecture, and an active giving program. The challenge was that none of it was organized for someone who arrived at the site for the first time and did not know where to look.
The approach
A congregation this size with this much programming needs clear ministry-lane navigation. Lumping children, youth, and adult ministry together under one broad “Ministry” header works only if each sub-section has enough depth to be useful. We built it so each program area has its own page with the information specific to that group, not a paragraph that links somewhere else.
For the operational backbone, ChurchCenter handles the event calendar, online giving, and resource distribution. This is the right call for a congregation that was already using Planning Center for internal coordination. The website links into ChurchCenter cleanly so members go to one familiar platform for events and giving, while the website itself stays focused on the discovery and information side.
We built a separate newsletter structure for children and youth rather than a single all-church newsletter. Family ministry moves at a different pace than general congregational communication. A parent of a second grader does not need to read the adult education schedule to find the children’s ministry update they are looking for. Separating those publications meant each one could be written for its actual audience rather than a catch-all.
The church’s building is a notable one, and the Building section reflects that. Architecture information, accessibility details, and a weddings page sit alongside the facility reservation system for organizations wanting to use the space.
What we built
A clear home for every ministry
Children, youth, adult, and outreach each get their own page written for that group, so a parent finds the children's ministry without wading through the adult education schedule.
The historic building, given its due
The congregation's Gothic Revival building, on the National Register, gets a real section, architecture, accessibility, weddings, and a facility reservation system, alongside the ministry pages.
The full build, including the pieces above:
- Worship information page with Sunday service times and online viewing option via YouTube livestream
- Full About section covering beliefs, Baptist heritage, membership path, church history, and pastor biographies
- Ministry section with dedicated pages for worship, children, youth, adult programs, and outreach
- Children’s newsletter and youth newsletter as separate publications with their own content cadences
- Sermon archive accessible through ChurchCenter, with podcast versions on Spotify and YouTube
- Church app information page for members who prefer mobile-first access
- ChurchCenter integration for event calendar, online giving, and resource access
- Building section covering architecture, accessibility information, a weddings page, and a facility reservation system
- Contact page and links to Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and YouTube
What changed
- Children, youth, and adult ministries each have a clear home of their own, written for that group's specific needs.
- The children's and youth newsletters now have their own communication channel instead of competing with general church announcements for attention.
- ChurchCenter runs the operational layer (calendar, giving, resources) that would otherwise need custom development to maintain.