Your Website is Central

Your website is the central hub of all things at your church. You've worked hard to drive traffic to your website. For your congregation or parish, it's their single source of truth. Widgets live on your website so you don't have to send people to another URL. This way, you can serve your congregation or parish directly from your website.

You Control the Placement and Context

We know you want to control the URL for small group sign-ups. We know you want to frame a call to action with a video, image, or text from the latest sermon series. We know you want to build a one-page resource for all things volunteering.

You can choose which page of your website widgets live on. And you can surround them with your graphics and context. A single page can show multiple widgets, so you can create a powerful and convenient resource for the topic at hand. For example, you could layer the Custom Form widget with the Opportunity Finder widget to gather necessary information for your volunteers!

You Control the Branding

You've invested heavily in your branding to ensure everything aligns with your brand colors, font, and style. Widgets fit seamlessly into your website, surrounded by and inheriting its basic styles.

Check out Customizing Widgets to see all the things you can customize.

You Can Target and Tailor

You don't want just a general group finder that lists every group in your church, you want a group finder that provides options to limit certain group types or focuses. All our finder widgets come with filtering options that your users can select, your church can suggest, or your admin can lock down. Even better? You can add the same finder widget to multiple pages of your website, each filtered differently for the targeted audience.

We know you don't want your congregation searching through a list when you want them to take action. Our Make a Pledge and Subscribe to Publication widgets present a clear, focused call-to-action. "Subscribe to our Resources for Parents e-newsletter!" Or, "Partner with us in building a school in the inner city!"

You want a way to collect data for an initiative that might not fit into a specific widget. With our Custom Form widget, you can collect custom questions (using conditional logic!) right from your website. You can even put the widget on different pages of your website, each using a different form.

We know you have current church announcements, daily devotionals, and more to share for limited periods of time and with specific audiences. With our RSS Feed widget, you can organize and display a stream of content. You can even put the widget on different pages of your website, each sourcing from a different feed.

Noticing a theme? Widgets are targeted and tailored to your audience!

Your Data Stays Central

Data silos hinder ministry, and managing multiple sources of data is a pain. With widgets, you can add functionality to your website, giving your congregation safe and simple tools to engage with your church. And your MinistryPlatform database instantly captures this interaction with all your other data.

This means you can see more holistic, accurate, current information about the people involved in your church so you can serve them that much better. Talk about a win-win!

Get Started

Check out Widget Church to explore widgets and see how they can be customized for your church. When you're ready, engage a coach for help getting started, or dive into Quick Start.

As an alternative, we also offer a microsite for each congregation or parish. It's a simpler, plug-and-play alternative to widgets. For more information, check out Microsite: Widgets Made Easy.