Custom WordPress websites for churches, ministries, and microsite networks — built by a small studio that shares your convictions and understands how churches actually work.
Abide Web Design is a faith-based studio that has built custom WordPress sites for churches and ministries since 2012. We support sermon archives, livestream integration, Planning Center integrations, and microsite networks for multi-ministry churches. Featured work includes Athey Creek (West Linn, OR), The Branch (Corvallis, OR), Birchman Baptist (Fort Worth, TX), and Ridgeview Church (Valley Center, CA).
A faith-based studio since 2012
Abide Web Design was founded in 2012 to support church planters in the Northwest. Since then we’ve built and maintained websites for churches of all sizes — from young plants to multigenerational congregations to ministries with global reach. Our team is made up of designers and developers who love Jesus and get excited about spreading the good news of the Gospel through digital and print design. We serve a God who is the originator of all creative beauty, and it is our hope to reflect that, in a small way, through the work we do for churches.
That shared foundation matters. Church communications directors and pastors don’t have to translate ministry language for us, or worry whether we understand why their work matters. We do — because we’re part of it.
Featured Project
Custom WordPress Site + Microsite Network
Athey Creek is a body of believers in Jesus Christ that goes through the Bible verse-by-verse and chapter-by-chapter from their location in West Linn, Oregon. Their teaching reaches a global audience through sermon archives, livestreams, and a constellation of related ministries and microsites — each with its own audience and purpose, all tied together by a shared visual identity and technical foundation. We've been their web partner for years, supporting the main site, the microsite network, and the infrastructure that holds up under traffic surges from sermon releases and special events.
View Case StudyOur approach
Every site we build is custom — no templates, no page builders. Color, typography, imagery, and tone are designed around your specific church, not pulled from a stock pattern. The result is a digital presence that feels like your church on Sunday morning, not like a generic "church website."
We've built sermon archives, livestream integration, podcast feeds, online giving paths, event registration, and Planning Center integrations. Church websites have specific functional needs that most general-purpose web designers don't understand. We do, because we've built them many times.
If your church runs multiple ministries, conferences, or campuses — each needing its own digital identity while staying part of the broader church brand — we can build that. We've maintained Athey Creek's entire microsite ecosystem for years: a constellation of related sites that each serve their own audience while preserving a consistent visual identity and shared technical foundation.
Church websites have predictable traffic surges around sermon releases, livestreams, and special events. Our managed hosting plan is built to handle them — caching, CDN, daily backups, monitoring, security hardening, and ongoing updates. Most importantly, when something needs immediate attention, the team that built your site is the team picking up the phone.
Our church practice
Our church practice spans several specific contexts. Each has its own rhythms — different audiences, different staff sizes, different content publishing cadences — and we've built that institutional knowledge over time.
Focus Area
Churches whose teaching reaches a global audience through sermon archives, livestreams, and supporting ministries. We support these churches with main-site development, microsite networks for related ministries, and the infrastructure to handle traffic spikes around sermon releases. Featured client: Athey Creek Church (West Linn).
Focus Area
Established churches serving multiple generations, with worship, outreach, fellowship, and educational programs running in parallel. Their sites need to serve grandparents on tablets and teens on phones equally well. Featured client: Birchman Baptist Church (Fort Worth, TX).
Focus Area
Church plants and growing congregations focused on reaching college students, young families, and the next generation. These churches need sites that are simple, modern, and unmistakably for their audience — without compromising on quality or capability. Featured client: The Branch (Corvallis).
Focus Area
Some of our church relationships extend beyond the website to ongoing creative work: sermon series artwork, event promotional materials, print pieces, and other communications design. Featured client: Christ Central Church (Corvallis).
Our work
West Linn, OR
Custom WordPress main site and microsite network serving a global teaching audience. Sermon archives, livestream integration, and traffic-hardened managed hosting.
Josh and the team at Abide have been absolutely amazing to work with. We've thrown a lot of requests their way, and they've always exceeded our expectations in a timely, professional manner. They've been instrumental in making sure our website remains a well-organized, easy to use platform for our users. We would highly recommend you consider Abide for your web design needs.
Fort Worth, TX
Full redesign of a multigenerational Baptist church serving families across multiple generations, with a focus on clear navigation for worship, ministries, and community life.
We're very pleased with the work Abide has done to help us improve our online presence. The website redesign and email templates have helped us better engage our community with the exciting things happening at our church.
Valley Center, California
Full redesign for a church that is getting younger by intentionally engaging families in their community.
Corvallis, OR
Brand identity and custom WordPress site for a growing church plant reaching college students and young families in Corvallis. Logo design, sermon series artwork, and ongoing creative work.
Abide built us a website from scratch that is so easy to use and is easy to navigate. No joke, everything that they have ever done for us from website to our logo, has always turned out way above my expectations. I can't recommend them more highly.
Corvallis, OR
Ongoing print and web creative partnership — sermon series artwork, event promotional materials, and communications design for a local Presbyterian congregation.
We have worked with Abide Web Design for various projects over the past year and have been very impressed with Josh's work! His turnaround time is excellent, his designs are fantastic, and his prices are reasonable. He is our top choice for our design needs (web, print, and promotional). We enjoy working with Abide Web Design and recommend his design services!
Common questions
The founders of Abide started this studio to support church planters, and our work with churches goes back to 2012. We currently support Athey Creek's full digital presence, helped build The Branch from scratch, redesigned Birchman Baptist, and provide ongoing creative work for Christ Central Church. We're not a general-purpose agency that happens to take on church work — churches are foundational to who we are and how we got started.
Yes. We've built Planning Center integrations including real-time group availability, event sign-ups, and group registration. Most major church management platforms have APIs or embeds we can work with. Tell us what you use, and we'll talk through the options.
These are standard features for the church sites we build. Sermon archives that scale to thousands of entries, livestream integration that displays the right content based on whether you're currently live, podcast feeds, sermon series organization, and resource libraries — we've built variations of all of these.
Yes — content management is a primary design constraint for every church site we build. We use the native WordPress editor (not page builders that lock content into proprietary structures), and we set up admin workflows around your team's actual technical comfort. Several of our church clients have non-technical staff who maintain their sites without developer involvement.
Yes. We designed The Branch's logo and continue to support their sermon series artwork. We provide print and graphic design work for Christ Central. For churches that want a single creative partner rather than splitting work across multiple vendors, we can handle most of the visual communication design alongside the website.
Yes — this is one of the things we've gotten really good at. Athey Creek runs a network of microsites for different ministries and initiatives, each with its own audience and purpose, all tied together by a shared visual language and technical foundation. We can build out new microsites in hours rather than days when a new ministry launches.
A custom WordPress build typically runs $4,500 to $12,000 depending on scope, with hosting and maintenance at $799/year. For churches with smaller budgets that need to launch quickly, our Website in 1 Week option is a flat $3,500. We'll scope honestly when we talk.
Fill out our project inquiry form or call us at (541) 224-5048. We'll send back a free estimate and schedule a time to talk through your project.
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