YouthChurchSites Features

Staff Directory Tool
Easily update this dynamically-generated staff listing and include as much or as little contact information as you need. It's a snap to include or update photos of your youth leaders and pastors.

Add Unlimited “Mini-WebSites”
With this tool each of your ministries can have their own ‘mini-website’, complete with their own ministry specific applications – prayer, news, FAQs, media, photo gallery, links and a calendar. With no limit on the number of “mini-websites” you can add, your online ministry can seamlessly grow along with the expansion of your overall  ministry. Also, available with certain design set-up options is the ability to insert your own graphical headers/banners for each “mini-website”, giving each ministry “mini-website” their own unique and distinct look and feel.

Small Groups/Home Groups Mini-WebSites
Using our mini-websites feature, setting up an Online Small Group Network is simple. Whether your ministry has 8 small groups, 18 small groups – or even 180 small groups – no kidding! – our software will accommodate! Each small group can have their own personal website complete with the following applications – – prayer, news, FAQs, media, photo gallery, links and a calendar. And, of course, each small group also can have an unlimited amount of content pages.  Take your Small Group Ministry to the next level with our Mini-WebSites feature.

Members Directory Tool
You probably already have a database of church members or attendees. But does it have an integrated skills and spiritual-gifts inventory? Can it include digital photos? This one can, and more. In your office, you can use this tool as an intranet and share directory data internally using it to help plug people in to various roles and functions in your church. Or password-publish it to your members to encourage new levels of interaction and caring. The possibilities are endless.

With our Members Directory Tool leaders can organize and identify members gifts and experiences and then query the whole church membership to locate individuals within the database directory that best matches open ministry opportunities. With our system you can:

• Identifyindividuals passionate about children for the children's ministry.
• Identify individuals with the gift of teaching, and send them an email about an available Sunday School position.
• Easily find everyone who plays guitar, keyboard, or other instruments for a new worship band.
• Identify leaders to lead any available positions within your ministry.

Events Calendar Tool
Imagine a centralized calendar that's always up-to-date and always available to everyone in the organization! During the day or week schedules can change, so this up-to-the-minute, dynamic calendar makes schedule modifications and communication a breeze. Include unlimited special and recurring events like weekly seminars, special events, board meetings, staff meetings, volunteer training meetings, etc. To make information even more accessible, calendar events and meetings are also automatically linked to the ministries, programs, and staff they relate to!

Daily News Tool
Today, in a world that changes quickly, being responsive while staying flexible is imperative for organizations. This tool allows your church to quickly post and publish up-to-the minute information or reports. As schedules change or as unexpected events occur, your members and attendees and community will recognize your site as the best place for current updates.

Sermon System
The Sermon System allows you to upload your weekly sermons in to your website in an audio or video format like mp3 or Windows Media Player. The Sermon System gives the visitors to your site an organized view of those sermons by month, as well as the ability to perform a keyword and categorical search for sermons. You can also include an outline, manuscript, and electronic notes like a Power Point Slideshow or a PDF. There is a one-time setup fee of $25.00 for the Sermon System. *Additaional Set-up Cost

Pictures & Images Tool
Pictures drive people to a website. Let’s face it; most people would rather look at photos of a recent event than read a bunch of text describing that event. The picture and images tool let’s your church easily include any type of image to any area in your website... new members to the church, photos of newborns, recent youth retreat or short-term mission project, annual choir programs, ... wherever a picture can tell a story, you can put one there. Our software can handle your organizations ‘photo wish list.’ We’ve made it simple.

Site Search Tool
Shop around ... you'll probably find that this tool alone is worth the value of all the others put together, and then some! If your site has never had the advantages of it's own integrated search engine before, you'll see right away how helpful this quick and powerful addition will be. Say good-bye to the frustration of trying to find important information deep inside your website.

Audio/Video Media Tool
Include streaming (Windows Media Only) and non-streaming music and video anywhere in your site! This feature is a great way to highlight the weekly sermons of your pastors or your top-notch Sunday School teachers. The youth could highlight a brief video from the most recent short-term mission project. You can use the Media Tool to provide online training for your nursery workers or other roles of responsibilities in the church that require a routine curriculum be taught and viewed. Use your imagination. This tool alone is not producible by most HTML sites, but it is one tool that most regular users of your site would appreciate the most. Simply upload any format: MPEG Video, QuickTime, Window's Media, Real Media, and MP3s.

Live Webcasting
With this feature you can open your Sunday morning worship service or specially planned event to virtual attendees. This feature makes it possible for you to stream live video on your website twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, depending upon your webcasting needs. There are necessary hardware requirements that must be available for a ministry to successfully stream live video This feature does require additional set-up and a one-time fee of $150.00 is

Articles System
Think of our articles system as an online library. With this system you can catalog self-published articles or other integral documents that are of value to your online users – meeting minutes, bulletins, articles on the family or other related ministries. Articles that are electronically and systematically catalogued so that your users can easily locate them. We can even explain to you how you can convert your documents into the universal and popular format know as a PDF (Portable Document File). Ask us how.

Online Documents Tool
The Online Documents Tool is part of the Audio/Video Tool. Besides audio and video, it makes it easy to include files and documents on your website that are available for quick download. Perhaps you have a mission statement as a Microsoft Word document, or an organization brochure in Acrobat PDF format. Easily post these and other documents such as weekly notes from the director or other staff, meetings for board members, or budget reports. Virtually any type of document can be posted and retrieved!

Forums/Discussion Board
Our Forums feature is a communication module that allows users to post messages 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Forums are very similar to chat rooms in their ability to allow multiple people to be involved in an online discussion that can then be read and responded to by other users. Discussions can range from an online study group – to suggestions for the next youth group retreat – to what hymns should be included in an upcoming worship service. A member can keep in touch and be involved with your church or ministry whether at home, work or "on the road." Forums can be moderated or un-moderated. Also, they can be password protected so they can only be viewed by the people that you choose. Forums offer an avenue to some people who might otherwise feel uncomfortable commenting in a live group discussion. You are not limited by the number of Forums that you can have.

Prayer Updates Tool
Anytime day or night you can easily post prayer requests and prayer updates, and best of all, prayer answers. Keep your ministry updated with the most recent prayer requests and answers.

Links Tool
Like all of our online  tools, all you need is your web browser to quickly add web links to your site. Add links to resources or links to other sites. The Links Tool is a quick way to list sites that your ministry recommends for people to visit.

FAQ Tool
New visitors to your website often have lots of questions. This tool allows you to create and update a Frequently-Asked-Questions section of your website. Customize it to make it your own and create a safe place for visitors and attendees to find out things they want to know about your organization, your beliefs, your programs, whatever! The tool comes with typical questions built-in for you to modify, add to, or create your own.

BetterNewsletter Tool
With this tool you can make easy-to-create online newsletters a snap. Whether you create a stand-alone online newsletter, or a 'web-version' of an existing printed newsletter, both are as easy to build as it is to copy and paste text. What's more, the BetterNewsletter Tool can automatically link newsletter events with calendar events already on your website. And it also archives all your newsletters so anyone can find stories or photos from previous issues.