Marketing for Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches

Start with the places a stranger checks: your Google Business Profile, Apple Maps, Facebook page and any directory that still lists the old name or affiliation. Then change the website name and domain, with redirects from the old address so links keep working. A new logo matters, but a visitor who drives to a church that no longer exists under that name is the bigger problem.

Register the domain, hosting, email and every social and listing account to the congregation, not to a person, and give at least two lay officers administrator access. Keep a one-page record of where each login lives. Then a new appointment means updating a clergy page and a photo, not rebuilding access from scratch.

Not if it follows official LCMS practice. The Synod says members in good standing of the LCMS and its sister churches may commune, with pastoral discretion in special cases (LCMS), and its 2023 convention reaffirmed that (Reporter). A good first-visit page explains the practice kindly, invites guests to speak with the pastor, and describes how they can still take part in the service.

ELCA guidance welcomes all baptized visitors to communion and suggests offering a blessing to guests whose own church or conscience keeps them from receiving (ELCA). Practice still varies by congregation, so we write the wording with your pastor rather than copying a standard line.

In the PC(USA), the session adopts the budget, so it normally authorizes spending, often on a recommendation from a communications or outreach committee. We prepare a short memo with mockups, scope and timing so the committee can recommend and the session can vote in one meeting cycle. PCA sessions work similarly, with deacons under session authority.

The vestry is the parish's legal agent and the rector presides, so the vestry normally approves the project. Some dioceses also publish social media or communications policies, as Pittsburgh did in 2024, so we read your diocese's policy first and follow it. If your diocese has none, we write a short parish policy for the vestry to adopt.

Use your full denominational name in your listing, page titles and signage, and say plainly what your congregation teaches and practices on your about page. Neighbors searching for one tradition should be able to tell within a few seconds whether they have found it. We describe the other body neutrally, if at all.

Six to eight weeks before the first Sunday of Advent and before Ash Wednesday. Search engines need time to find new pages, and families plan holiday visits early. Each page should list every service with times, describe what happens in plain words, and say whether there is childcare or a meal, such as a Lenten soup supper.

Most of our clients invest roughly $1,200 to $4,000 a month in marketing, often across more than one channel; platforms, markets, ad spend and scope move the number. Website and branding projects are scoped and quoted in writing after a free consultation, which helps a council or vestry budget a phase at a time.

No. Ambrose has not worked with a church yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. We bring brand, website, search, email and event experience from other sectors, and on this page we have tried to show the polity, communion and continuity questions we would plan around. Judge us on the proposal and the portfolio, and on whether we understood your congregation.