We want to see the Gospel shared to millions of people online. 📢

Our Guiding Philosophy 🤔

Your website is the main cornerstone for your church. 🧱

Church websites often are thought of as a front door to point people to social media or in-person. While we agree that new visitors should feel invited to participate on social media — and, ultimately, in person — we think that church websites often jump the gun.

Think twenty years ago: people looked for churches that they were either invited to, were familiar with, or had an event they were hosting. Going further, unchurched people typically looked for a church when a life-changing event (often times negative/traumatic) occurred.

So, when they found the church they'd like to visit, they saw the parking lot, the front door, and then the foyer — all before ever seeing a message. What happened in the parking lot and front door usually discerned whether they'd even venture into the foyer. From there, they would then find their way to not only the sanctuary, but to the particular support they were looking for.

If we believe in the website as only a front door; we skip connecting with new people in the "foyer".

In other words, your church's google listing is the parking lot, the top of your website's home page is the front door, and the entire website's contents are actually the foyer.

Church websites should be powerful
‍and simple. 💪

We tend to think they should be one or the other. But what if we made church websites simple to navigate, explore, and interact with, while also powerful in features, scalability, and resources?

Church buildings are often local landmarks in our communities. Even if most people don't attend that church, they know where it is, and often might have been to an event there.

Good church architecture is made for people to easily find their way around, allows scalability (as more people start attending or a special event surges the amount of people in the building), and is designed to be pleasant and inviting.

We believe church websites are no different.

Church websites should be built to serve the people who use it — no matter who. 🙏

Church websites typically act like marketing hubs. However, churches often market the same wrong way that businesses do — by focusing on the product instead of the people.

Within seconds of using your church's website, a visitor should be able to accomplish what they're looking for; whether it be prayer, connecting with a small group, arranging a meeting with a pastor, or (of course) scheduling their first visit.

Instead, churches tend to show new visitors what they're all about with a bunch of fluff words that typically mean nothing. People need help — not a sales pitch.

Imagine if people were able to seek the help they needed before even stepping foot physically in your church?

Simply put: your church's website is also a ministry.

The Gospel has a place in the
digital world. 🌐

The Church needs to be online. In a place filled with so much polarity, opinions, struggles, depravity, and, frankly, overall worldliness, that's where the Church needs to be the most. We believe the websites we build for churches should be digital sanctuaries: where people are ministered to before they even step foot in a physical church.

Our Systems ⚡

When Steve Jobs created Apple, he was obsessed with one thing: simplicity.

Our approach is no different.

We believe that church websites should be simple to use. We handle all of the back-end work, integrations, and development, and keep it as simple as possible for church leaders to get a powerful, effective website for their ministry.

Our process is meant to be quick, clear, and pleasing. 😁

We believe in getting your website set up quickly. That's on us, but also you and your team. We do our best to maintain a very quick turnaround time, as long as you follow our process and respond with revisions quickly, you can even see a website completed and launched within a week.

The best way to ensure this is to get the key decision-makers all on the same page before working with us. During the week where we build and launch, have them available during business hours as much as possible to quickly answer questions or respond with revision requests, but have only one person act as the main communicator.

We want to see the churches we partner with to have a website they are super happy with — made by a team they are super pleased with.

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We build websites either from scratch or based on templates we designed. 🏗️

Our websites are built custom for you based on pre-designed templates that are proven to be effective. We believe the best way to ensure the success of our partner churches is by building the sites ourselves, which is why we're not a website-building app like Squarespace or Wix.

Our websites follow specific concepts and philosophies, marketing strategies, and user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) systems that are proven, consistent, and secure.

With that being said, our websites are also built to be managed and maintained by you. Other than the underlying framework and page layout, you are able to add, remove, and customize content as you wish.

Why we use Webflow 🙋

Webflow is a website design and development tool that allows us to generate and manipulate code visually, while also creating a powerful and immersive content management system that scales with our clients.

Webflow allows us to develop websites and applications without limitations, while also enabling designers to not worry about knowing code.

Wait, what's the difference between website design and website development? 

Happy you asked. website design is creating the visual layout of how a website will look and feel. Graphic designers often create the website appearances.

Website development is creating the code that actually makes the website or web application work.

Both go hand-in-hand, but are often two different roles.

Webflow helps us keep our costs in check while also delivering a top-notch product to churches.

Because we use Webflow to power our websites, we are able to guarantee world class security, reliability, and scalability without having to operate our own servers.

We are also able to guarantee a website that just simply works. Every time. You will never have to worry about plugins or security breaches like you would in Wordpress or messy code like you might see in other web platforms.

About Flockspot 😎

Flockspot is a service provided by the House Creative Media Company as a way to support growing the online presence of the amazing, incredible Gospel.

As church leaders ourselves, we understand how complex, overwhelming, and expensive maintaining a traditional website can be, which is why we provide an easy system for churches looking to have a strong presence online.

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Our Commitment

Flockspot exists to serve the church. We see Flockspot as part of our ministry, and will never sell out Flockspot to the highest bidder. We are commited to being involved with our churches for the rest of our existence, and will not give up that mission.

We are independently owned and bootstrapped, meaning we aren't under immense pressure to make a profit. Instead, our goal is to benefit churches and help them grow.

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Our 10% Pledge 🪙

We pledge to always dedicate at least 10% of our revenue to a donation fund to support church plants and ministries that need a brand, website, or any of our services that otherwise cannot afford it.

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About the House Creative Media Company 🏠

The House Creative Media Company is a web development and branding agency that works with impact-driven businesses and organizations, including churches.

House Creative is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and was founded by Scott and Angie Miller, who also launched Flockspot as a church-specific service of House.

Why are they different names? 

It's definitely not to make us sound bigger than we are. Flockspot and House are the same company, but House handles churches and secular businesses/organizations as well, while Flockspot only works with Christian ministries.

This is for multiple reasons.

1. Flockspot's marketing and content is specifically geared towards church leaders, ministers, and administrators as its target audience, while House's clients are typically impact-driven businesses and organizations.
2. We believe that the services House offers are for clients needing highly customized, intense approaches that are in a different pricing category than Flockspot. For example, if your church is an enterprise-sized entity, we would more likely recommend working with House's service listing rather than Flockspot.
3. We work with secular clients to fund our ministry-minded services and offerings so that we're not reliant on churches to provide cashflow. Simply put, we believe in diversifying our income sources to provide long-term stability and growth.

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