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    TueTuesdayMarMarch6th2012 Harvest Christian Academy School Website

    iMinistries recently completed the design and development of a custom school website for Harvest Christian Academy in Elgin, IL. The website serves as a tool for both potential students and current students.

    The iMinistries CMS has many great features that work well with schools of all sizes.
    • News and events organized by grade levels for easy viewing by parents
    • Teacher pages so each educator can have it's own "online classroom"
    • Online registration and custom forms
    • Easy abilities to connect socially
    • Newsletter
    • Simple page updating



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    MonMondayDecDecember19th2011 New Church Plant Websites iMinistries continues to be blessed by our relationship with Harvest Bible Chapel. Not only do we get to work with the church and its six main campuses, we also have the privilege to work with their church plants all over the world. Each year a new group of pastors partner with us to create their new church websites. This year literally had church plants from the east coast to the west coast. We set up seven websites in just two months!



    Harvest Greenville Southwww.harvestgreenvillesouth.org
    Harvest Los Angeles Southwww.harvestlosangeles.org
    Harvest Nashville Centralwww.harvestnashvillecentral.org
    Harvest Cambridge Ohiowww.harvestbiblechapelcambridge.org
    Harvest Clear Lakewww.harvestclearlake.org
    Harvest Fort Waynewww.harvestfortwayne.org
    Harvest Traverse Citywww.harvesttraversecity.org



    Because of our unique and ongoing relationship with Harvest Bible Chapel, we're able to move quickly on each website. We understand the culture of Harvest and are able to work with them efficiently with a great deal of mutual trust and support. If you're a large church or church planting organization and would like to talk with us about partnering with iMinistries, . We'd love to learn about your ministry and see if there is any way that we can further the Gospel by working/partnering with you.



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    SatSaturdayOctOctober1st2011 New Ministry Website for Harvest Bible Chapel

    Long time ministry partner Harvest Bible Chapel has launched a new ministry website using the iMinistries Church Website Content Management System (CMS). They call it Harvest 5G



    Harvest wanted site visitors to be able to pray for their staff members. To accomplish that, we used our new ToolTip which creates a simple hover affect. We populated it with additional details about each staff member. It provides a great user experience.



    We also created a page for them which displays a lot of great media that they produce using our Light box. In this screen shot, we have selected one of the videos from their Senior Pastor, James MacDonald.



    It was a great project to work on and we are excited to see how they continue to use their website for the Glory of the Lord.
    TueTuesdayAugAugust16th2011 Free Church Website Design Selected By Harvest North Phoenix

    Long time customer Harvest Bible Chapel of North Phoenix recently made a huge improvement to the look and feel of their church websites design.

    They began by selecting one of our latest designed free church website skins that we offer Bethsaida, and customized it by adding in their own custom CSS via their control panel. That effort and time that they spent on creating beautiful graphics for the home page and ministry page headers has paid off in spades as their site looks excellent! Our hats are off them them.



    "Thanks for being easy to work with in setting up our new site. iMinistries has done an excellent job at making it easy to manage and tweak our website."
    We would love to hear from you, chime in with a comment on what you think below.

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    TueTuesdayMarMarch1st2011 Custom Designed Church Website for Harvest Bible Chapel - Philadelphia

    What do you get when you mix a great Church CMS, a talented designer and a passionate church plant pastor? An amazing looking church website.





    Check out the Harvest Philadelphia church website and tell us what you think!

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    WedWednesdayDecDecember15th2010 Harvest Barrie iPhone App

    Harvest Barrie gets accepted by Apple for their church iPhone app!

    Not only did Harvest Bible Chapel Barrie want to partner with iMinistries for their new church website, they also wanted to have their own Church iPhone app! Check out and download their fully integrated Church iPhone app today.



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    TueTuesdayDecDecember7th2010 Custom Designed Church Website for Harvest Bible Chapel - Barrie

    Selecting the right church website provider is important. 

    Our latest customer, Harvest Bible Chapel of Barrie, Ontario, did their research and moved their church website over to the iMinistries Church CMS from Clover.

    Once their website was live, we asked them why they decided to switch. They told us that they were looking to save money, and liked that we offer so many features right out of the box. They were also excited about getting an iPhone app for their church.

    We also asked them what they thought of working with us to bring their website to life. They told us that they loved our project management and thought that we were very professional and timely. They also appreciated that we provided helpful insights to them along the way.


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    SunSundayNovNovember28th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Portland

    Harvest Bible Chapel - Portland Maine, selects iMinistries for their new church website!


    It was a pleasure to work with Senior Pastor Bill Foss to get their new church website setup on the iMinistries Church CMS. Like everyone, he wanted to be sure that his church website truly reflected the region in which the Lord has placed them in. We were able to get this design accomplished because our designer was humble enough to learn from Bill what truly represented Portland, Maine instead of creating a design based on a mid-westerner's point of view.


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    FriFridayNovNovember19th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Perth

    Another great looking church website for one of the latest church plants of Harvest Bible Chapel!

    While Frans Alberts attended the Harvest Training Center, he got hooked up with us and we were able to get his site put together and launched within a few weeks.


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    MonMondayOctOctober25th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Jupiter

    Selecting the right Church CMS for your church website is an important decision.

    Luckily for us, the features of our Church Content Management System and the cost savings that we offer every ministry makes the decision to use iMinistries an easier one. Today, we are excited to announce that Harvest Bible Chapel of Jupiter, Florida has returned to iMinistries after using a different church website provider!

    When speaking with Senior Pastor Jeremy Hill about his decision to return to iMinistries and what he wanted their church website to look like, he quickly selected our latest Premium Skin, Nebo.

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    MonMondayOctOctober11th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - North Carroll

    Another church plant has selected iMinistries for their church website.

    Rich Culp of Harvest Bible Chapel North Carroll had a previous church website with iMinistries and selected us again because he knew he could trust us and liked what the system had to offer him.

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    FriFridayOctOctober8th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Chattanooga

    Another satisfied customer...Harvest Bible Chapel Chattanooga has launched their new church website!

    Being lead by the Holy Spirit to plant another church, the Harvest Bible Fellowship has entrusted Senior Pastor Mike DuBard and Worship Pastor Glenn McCrea with planting a new church in Chattanooga, TN.


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    SatSaturdayOctOctober2nd2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Decatur

    Harvest Bible Chapel Decatur has selected to refresh their current church websites look and feel by upgrading their skin to the Harvest Bible Chapel Plant package.

    Here is another example of a customer who appreciates the features that come with the iMinistries Church CMS, but has grown tired of their current look and feel. After their leadership contacted us and provided the colors that they wanted to use for their new skin, we quickly update their website's look and feel. After it was approved, we applied it to their existing website and in a blink, their church website was transformed.

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    ThuThursdaySepSeptember16th2010 Harves Bible Chapel - Turks & Caicos

    After several years of using a free skin, Harvest Turks & Caicos took the plunge to update their look and feel!

    Many have been faithfully serving the church in this beautiful setting for several years now. We are excited to debut their amazing oceanside landscape through their website.

    Like so many of our customers, the team at Harvest TCI really appreciate the tools that they have at their disposal to maintain their church website, but were ready for it to look a bit better. After seeing the photos they wanted featured in their rotating header, we quickly volunteered to make the trip down for a personal training session for all their staff.

    What do you think? Respond below.

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    WedWednesdaySepSeptember15th2010 Harves Bible Chapel - Fresno If you are looking for a great Bible-believing church in the Fresno, California area, then your search is officially over. Formerly known as Sunriver Community Church, Senior Pastor Ben Dosti leads the charge for Harvest Bible Chapel Fresno.

    We are thankful for the additional ministry and partnership that Harvest Fresno provides, and we think their website turned out pretty well. We modified the Harvest Skin by adding a breathtaking scenic shot of the California mountains. What a great way to celebrate the majesty of our Creator God, and display the beauty of the region simultaneously!

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    MonMondayAugAugust30th2010 Custom Designed Church Website for Harvest Bible Chapel - Oakville

    Being able to offer a product that can be used by millions of people is a great feeling. Being able to offer a product that can be used by millions of people, which also retains its customers for years is...amazing.

    Harvest Bible Chapel - Oakville has been a loyal customer of our Church Content Management System (CMS) for several years. They use many of the great features that come with our Church CMS and have even been responsible for the creation of others. Because they understand the value and reach that it provides them in their community, they have committed to investment in their web presence.

    On the internet, an organization's credibility can be helped or hurt by its website. Because of that fact, Harvest has modified their look and feel almost yearly to keep it current. It has certainly been fun to watch their progression over the years and we are grateful to be able to provide them with a CMS that can be transformed on demand.

    Being able to retain your websites content and get a complete face lift saves so much time and money. It is an excellent way to steward your resources properly.


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    MonMondayAugAugust30th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Granger

    Should Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ be willing to gamble?

    If we were betting men and women, we wouldn't get nervous betting on you wanting a church website that is visually appealing, affordable and extremely flexible. One of the many great features of the iMinistries Church CMS is the ability to change your look and feel with ease. Harvest Bible Chapel of Granger, Indiana has done just that by purchasing the Malta Premium Skin for $75.

    Take a look at the Before and After screenshots below. Yesterday, their website looked like Before. Today, their website looks like After. Here are a few reasons why this is so important.
    1. Time/Cost Savings
      Because of the iMinistries skin feature, there wasn't a need to recreate a new church website. They simply had to choose a different skin and click save!
    2. Training
      By remaining an iMinistries customer and changing their skin, the staff doesn't have to relearn how to manage their church website using a new CMS. The back end tools remain the same, so they can continue to post news, blog posts, and so much more.
    When they made the switch to using the Malta Premium Skin, they also purchased the ability to collect Event Registrations by Fellowship One.

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    MonMondayAugAugust30th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Prescott

    While we do offer Managed, Design, and SEO services to our customers, our heart is not to replace the talent that you have in your church body.


    Harvest Bible Chapel - Prescott knows this and tapped the shoulder of a volunteer in their church to help them come up with some of their new design. Their starting point was the founding Harvest Bible Chapel’s layout, but changed a few things to make it their own.

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    FriFridayAugAugust27th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - North Indy

    In today's economic times, if you were to ask any church leader what their highest needs are, they would say additional staff, more money, and more time in each day.

    Harvest Bible Chapel of North Indianapolis, Indiana has been a customer of iMinistries since fall 2007. A little over a month ago, their website and newsletter administrator LiaAnn Ellis contacted us to discuss upgrading their look. They were interested in getting a custom design for their website created, but after investigating our website more, she uncovered our new Premium Skins for only $75.

    She reported that after showing her leadership team this design, they wanted to move forward, saving thousands of dollars and time. Just like anyone, they were curious to know if they could make a few tweaks to this design to make it their very own. LiaAnn presented us with a few mock ups that she created and after we reviewed them and coming to a mutual agreement, we were able to implement their design choices.

    I’d be remiss to not thank Travis and David both for all the work and help you gave throughout these couple of weeks. It was a ridiculously short turnaround and I would not have been able to help make it happen if you both had not been so quick in responding and making edits as necessary to the code. The skin is amazing; the tweaks done to make it more personalized are amazing! It is definitely clear that IMinistries is gifted in furthering Kingdom work by helping others further their Kingdom work!

    Truly, the process was easy, the timing was great, and the quick help was awesome. Not to mention, I learned a ton about your CMS which will really help me later on when I add new content!

    LiaAnn Ellis
    Website and Newsletter Administrator
    Harvest Bible Chapel - North Indianapolis

    Today we are happy to relaunch their website with a modified Premium skin at a fraction of the cost and time.



    Let iMinistries help you create a great looking, full featured church website today. Our prices, functionality and design can not be matched!

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    SunSundayAugAugust1st2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Carson Tahoe Having the ability to update your own website is a must. Harvest Bible Chapel Carson Tahoe pastor Jon Cox was sold on using the iMinistries Church CMS because it gives him both the creative and contextual control that he was looking for. As soon as he saw the new Sinai Premium skin, he felt it captured the woodsy, rustic look of Carson City.

    Jon has done an excellent job of using his church website to engage his future congregants both visually and textually.



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    ThuThursdayJunJune10th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Woodhull We never get tired of bringing on church websites for Harvest Bible Chapel. This time, we are happy to announce a new location, Woodhull, Illinois. Senior Pastor Jim Shannon is grateful to be working with the people of Woodhull and is excited to see what the Lord will do.

    TueTuesdayJunJune1st2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Muskoka Harvest Bible Chapel in Muskoka, Ontario recently came back to iMinistries after a short sabbatical. After initially signing on with iMinistries, Harvest Muskoka left for a local company, then tried the CMS Clover, before deciding to return to us. Harvest Muskoka staff raved about our "quick customer service" and that our websites come loaded with pre-built pages for easy start-up, which wasn't the case with their last two providers.

    The church went with an iMinistries Premium skin, which includes the addition of their logo and the customization of social media links, all for $75.


    We are super excited about our new website! We made the switch because we were finding that our previous [Clover] website was not very interactive or useful ... whereas [our iMinistries website] is almost limitless as far as functionality and ... [is] easier for everyone to connect with what's happening at Harvest Muskoka ... because a lot is happening!!
    FriFridayMayMay28th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Brampton Harvest Bible Chapel in Brampton, Ontario has been a customer for over a year and just upgraded their church website from a free skin to one of our new premium skins (they choose Malta).

    By choosing a Premium skin, we added Harvest Brampton's logo and linked the skin's social media icons to their desired destination.



    Harvest Brampton's Jameson Evendon, Worship Ministry Coordinator explains why they changed skins and what makes iMinistries stand out among other church CMS.

    Why did you want to re-skin your site?
    "A church's website is an important part of their profile with visitors and potential visitors, as well as regular attenders. Harvest Brampton has been on the map for less than a year, so we want to take extra care with our website to be sure we are communicating clearly and effectively with our community. Our website was functional, but it was very plain looking, and didn't communicate effectively what our church was like. We elected to re-skin our site in order to give visitors to our site a more accurate portrayal of what our church was like, and to make our website one which you would want to come back to."

    Why did you chose to go with iMinistries' Premium skins? Why Malta in particular?
    "We wanted a skin that not many other websites were using. Upon researching other Harvest Bible Chapel websites, we discovered that they were all using a similar template. At first we thought it might be better for us to use the same template, but when we learned that there was a new skin available, we were intrigued. When we saw the Malta skin, we loved it right away. It was the perfect mix of color and readability, and it brought our site that unique look."

    What was your reaction to seeing the new site with the new skin?
    "When it came up with all our graphics in place, it looked great! It was leaps ahead from our last website skin. I probably visited the site a dozen times a day for the first few days, just to look at it. We loved it."

    How would you describe iMinistries' customer service?

    "I was impressed at how accessible iMinistries' customer service is. It's easy to get a hold of someone for a troubleshooting issue, and any e-mails or Basecamp messages are replied to very quickly. We were also impressed at how iMinistries went the extra mile to have a look around our site for potential improvements and brought those to our attention, in order to better serve our people. It could have been a cold install of a new skin, but instead they showed they really care about their customers."

    "I was impressed at how accessible iMinistries' customer service is ... they really care about their customers."
    Harvest Brampton's Jameson Evendon
    FriFridayMayMay7th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Denver Harvest Bible Chapel Denver has now been planted and they too selected the iMinistries powerful church content management system to run their website. We won't clutter up this blog post with our thoughts for we think this quote says it all. Thank you Jeff! May the Lord bless Harvest Bible Chapel Denver in ways that prove that it is not man who does the work, but Jesus Christ!

    Travis, David, and iMinistries team,

    Thank you so much for your dedication, time, and effort of building a great site for our church. Your artistic abilities, timeliness, competitive pricing, and comprehensive approach were first class all the way.

    Working with iMinistries was a tremendous blessing. A functional and sharp website is very important and yet most of us do not have the expertise or the language to describe exactly what we want. During this project, everyone on staff took the time to help me understand the process and made me feel like my project was of the utmost importance. The entire staff worked very promptly to get our website completed and beyond our expectations.

    Having worked with other web designers in the past who use their level of expertise to overcharge, procrastinate, and make you feel inferior, I was nervous about this project. To my great delight I found working with the staff a great encouragement. I would highly recommend iMinistries to anyone who desires affordable web pricing, a great design, a personable staff, a high level of expertise, a system that is easy to learn and adapt, and a group of people who truly love the Lord and desire to use their gifts to serve Him.

    I look forward to staying connected with all of you and appreciate all you have done to help us launch Harvest Bible Chapel Denver!

    God’s richest blessings,
    Jeff
    SatSaturdayAprApril3rd2010 Custom Designed Church Website for Harvest Bible Chapel - Peoria Harvest Bible Chapel in Peoria's design team wanted a new look for their website. They created a custom skin and worked with us to make it as interactive as possible.

    Images at the top of the page emphasize Harvest Bible Chapel's values of Worship, Walk (with), Work (for), and Witness (for) Christ. And links in the middle of the page link to the church's online sermons, location, and mission. They've also utilized the Rotator Feature to display banners their design team created.



    Travis,

    Just a quick thanks to let you know how much I appreciate the website. We have received many oohs and ahhs and we have not really pumped it yet. Next few weeks we will be directing our body at the web more and more as events are coming with sign up and we now can do it online!

    Anyway, organization, features, simplicity of use for my staff…all great. Thanks.

    In Him,
    Pastor Tim Harkness
    Harvest Bible Chapel Peoria
    TueTuesdayMarMarch30th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Tampa We started the project for Harvest Bible Chapel Tampa's website on March 15. We had the website populated and launched by March 25.

    Utilizing the Harvest skin and customizing it to Senior Pastor Rich Culp's specifications (Culp went with the pewter and red accent colors of Tampa's NFL franchise, the Buccaneers), and our comprehensive Harvest Church Plant Package, site setup was a snap.



    Not only is the website beautiful, functional, and versatile, [but] you and the folks at iMinistries are incredibly patient and helpful. As a preacher, I would rather stand up in front of 3,000 people than touch a single widget of a website. Before going into this process, I did not even know what a URL was or for that matter what three words begin with U...R…L unless they meant “U R a Loser Rich” when it comes to websites.

    Now I am conquering website administration…I even know how to set up a Rotator...

    You guys have been more than long-suffering to work with me over the phone because I could not even find the HELP button much less understand the lingo in the support desk. All that to say, iMinistries well reflects the servant-heart nature of our Lord. He said that the greatest in the Kingdom is the one who serves. Thanks for serving the Kingdom with great websites.

    For His Glory
    By His Grace
    Rich Culp
    FriFridayMarMarch5th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Dallas Chris Keathly from the Harvest Bible Chapel church plant in Dallas, Texas took advantage of iMinistries' Harvest Church Plant Package. For his customized Harvest Skin, Keathly chose Dallas Cowboys blue to display his pride in the local NFL franchise.



    After his site was set up and live, Keathly had only good things to say about his iMinistries website and experience.
    Travis,

    Man you have NO IDEA how fast and Incredible this is. When I did this with my last church, it was VERY LABOR intensive, more complicated, more expensive and not half as convenient to work on and in my humble opinion did not look near as good. If you want me to do a commercial for you, I will! :)

    Thanks again for all your help and the quick responses!
    MonMondayDecDecember14th2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - London Harvest London has been a long standing partner in ministry with iMinistries. Immediately after creating our new Harvest Plant Package option, London contacted us and wanted to make the change. We certainly love getting to work with them every year.

    TueTuesdayDecDecember1st2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Calgary For new Harvest Bible Chapel church plants, continuing the look and feel of founding Harvest is important to them. One easy way they can accomplish this on their church website is by customizing the Harvest skin to their ministry. Plants in Austin, Texas and Durham, Canada chose new colors, the images of their city's skyline, their pastors, and other themes, and a customized Harvest logo in their skin to give a fresh feel to an existing look.

    The Harvest plant in Calgary, Alberta, chose to capitalize on its city's (and country's) love of hockey and incorporate it in its skin. Pastor Trevor Peacock selected the deep red of his city's hockey team, the Calgary Flames, and used it as his website's background color and the team's arena home as its header image. The result is a site that pops off the screen and immediately relates to its city's people.

    With Peacock posting regular updates in his blog and with his Twitter feed embedded on his homepage, Calgary locals are sure to keep coming back.


    SatSaturdayNovNovember21st2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Kansas City The new Harvest church plant in Kansas City went the way of the plants in Austin, Durham, and Calgary and customized the Harvest skin to their ministry.

    Pastor Jeff Terrell chose a bright blue for his background and a Bible for his header and his blog is up and running.


    MonMondayNovNovember9th2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Durham
    Like Harvest's church plant in Austin, Texas, the new Harvest plant in Durham, Canada chose to customize the skin Baron3 created for founding Harvest on their church website. Pastor Ian Hales picked an open Bible and the image of wheat for his header and a rich blue for his background color.

    Hales has embedded a Twitter feed on his site, links visitors to his Facebook page, and, using our Widget feature, has embedded his latest blog entries on to his homepage.



    TueTuesdayNovNovember3rd2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Austin While Harvest's church plant in Austin, Texas prepares for its launch in fall 2010, its website is already up and running.

    Customizing the skin iMinistries created for founding Harvest, Pastor Bryan Payne chose to display Austin's city skyline in his header and the local university's burnt orange for his website's background.

    Payne has found it easy to utilize our Content Management System and has already posted several videos and regularly adds new entries in his blog to keep future church updated.


    FriFridayOctOctober23rd2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Joliet The Harvest Bible Chapel plant in Joliet, Illinois came to us with a concept in mind. They liked our Grunge skin, but wanted to customize it to their specifications. The result was a new twist on an old favorite--Grunge Black.



    This new skin, when combined with ads on the homepage and featuring the Harvest Joliet logo in the top banner, makes for a sharp, sophisticated look.
    MonMondayAugAugust17th2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Founding Church You might already know that using a content management system to keep your website up to date has its advantages. But what do you do when you want to redesign your church's website?

    Does it require a "Herculean" effort by many staff members? Are you forced to set up a brand new website or can a new design be applied to your existing content? There are a growing number of churches that have multiple locations now, so what if you need to expand your one website into multiple websites that are campus specific?

    While we provide services to many small churches and organizations, we can also handle that "Herculean" effort.

    Almost three years to the day, the founding Harvest Bible Chapel has successfully relaunched their website(s). This time, with a different flare though. Their previous website housed all of its ministries on each of their four campuses. We helped them transition to six campus-specific websites that their staff can manage.



    Their main site, http://www.harvestbiblechapel.org, provides all-campus information and resources. It also acts as a springboard to the campus websites. This helped to solve their growing menu crowding and site clutter.

    While there were many hours invested in the design, created by Baron3 Visual Communications, the actual process of going from one website to six took twelve hours and three staff members Friday night and Saturday morning. It was well worth it!

    Check out the new campus sites by visiting the main site and clicking the campus links, or click on the links below.

    http://www.harvestrollingmeadows.org
    http://www.harvestelgin.org
    http://www.harvestniles.org
    http://www.harvestcrystallake.org
    http://www.harvestwickerpark.org

    MonMondayAugAugust10th2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Palos In September, Harvest Palos Heights will be officially opening its doors. The Palos/Oak Lawn area is located just 25 miles southwest of downtown Chicago and is rich in diversity having people of Polish, German, Irish, Hispanic, African American, Dutch, and Arab descent. They are excited to reach people representing many nations with the Gospel this fall.



    The Senior Pastor of Harvest Palos came to us in January because he knew the importance of having a website for the public to learn more about him and the ministry of Harvest Bible Chapel. Their site launched in February and since that time, Ryan has noticed a continual up tick in website visitors on their website.
    "As we near the launch date of our new church, every click on our website counts! Travis from iMinistries was amazingly helpful at maximizing our website to make the greatest impact on our visitors."

    Pastor Ryan Hall
    Harvest Palos

    We are excited to partner with another ministry that is faithfully serving the body of Jesus Christ.
    ThuThursdayMayMay21st2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Milwaukee South I was working with Jen Hawkins of Harvest Bible Fellowship yesterday, and we were looking at some of our existing customers websites together. We came across Harvest Bible Chapel Milwaukee, and I must admit that when I saw it, I felt a little bit of pride.

    Harvest Milwaukee has been with us for two years, and they recently decided to put some extra effort into their website. They selected one of our free skins and had their worship pastor create a header for them. They also have spent a significant amount of time filling in the gaps by using highlights on various pages as well as trying to add as many thumbnails to their articles that they have posted. Their site has been transformed in a great way.

    I wrote their Senior Pastor to encourage him in what I saw, and he had this to say:
    "I love your product and would recommend it to anyone. It is disappointing to see some using the product, but not to its fullest potential. We still have a long way to go with blogging and groups...but we're getting there." 

    Joe Martinez
    Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel Milwaukee


    I can not stress to you enough how simple our system is to use, you just have to spend a little, and I stress "little," time learning how the pieces work. We have a video tutorials available like this one on how to use our blog feature and many written help files which give you step-by-step instructions.

    Like anything, you get out what you put in. I am very excited for Harvest Milwaukee and for their efforts.
    TueTuesdayMayMay5th2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Oakville We placed a fresh coat of paint on the site for Harvest Bible Chapel of Oakville. In this itteration, we went in a different direction than their last custom design. As their church has grown and they have placed a larger emphasis on communicating online to their church body, they have found that their website has been filled with tons of information. At times, it can be hard to find quickly find items.

    After plugging their Google Analytics account number into their iMinistries website, they found that a large portion of their viewers have larger screens than what they had just over two years ago. Because of this handy information, we were able to make the viewport, or the space that you see, much wider. This has allowed them to have more menu items and more content front-and-center without having to scroll down the page.


     

    In addition, Harvest Oakville is the first to use another feature that we just created a few weeks ago--the Quick Menu. This new feature helps users find things quickly on your website. With just a click of a button, a detailed menu slides down, listing links which jump to hard-to-find items. While you can kind of see how it looks in the screen shot provided below, we encourage you to check it out yourself by either clicking on one of the images or visiting http://www.harvestoakville.ca.



    MonMondayMarMarch2nd2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Glasgow, Scotland With the help of Harvest Bible Fellowship, iMinistries has been able to make the jump across the pond! Harvest Bible Chapel has planted a new church in Glasgow, Scotland lead by Senior Pastor, Scott Hamilton. And we at iMinistries couldn't be happier to be able to partner with Scott in reaching more souls for Christ, in a new country, and on a different continent.



    "iMinistries have produced a website far in excess of our imaginings. It is striking, compelling, and faithful to the image that we would seek to present to a world watching our ministry as it grows and, we pray, flourishes."

    Scott Hamilton
    Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel Glasgow
    MonMondayMarMarch2nd2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - West Minneapolis Brent Halverson of Harvest Bible Chapel West Minneapolis launched his church in early 2009. He had previously been a pastor in Indiana, but felt the Lord calling him and his family north to Minnesota to plant a church. iMinistries worked with Brent, just as we do with so many pastors, to put his site online and in his hands to edit, post messages, and more.



    "iMinistries has become an extension of our local church ministry. It's a partnership. We're more accessible now as a church plant because of our online presence. Travis and his team have made the process so easy. We gladly recommend iMinistries. Their partnership will maximize your ability to reach others for Jesus Christ!"

    Brent Halvorsen
    Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel West Minneapolis
    SunSundayMarMarch1st2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - North Indy Harvest Bible Chapel of North Indy was in the same boat as Harvest York Region. They had been using a free skin for almost two years before deciding to have us help them with a customized look for their front page. We worked with their worship director, Luke Newton, to develop graphics that reflected their ministry and header for their site. Their primary desire was to have a mixture of larger graphics as well as text on their homepage that was published automatically as it was created.

    "Our website was in need of a fresh look and more user-friendly interface. With the help of Travis at iMinistries we were able to accomplish both of these elements all while staying within our given budget. iMinistries offered an amazing amount of insight and expertise to the design process all while using every resource at their disposal to understand exactly what we were looking for and delivering that to us. Not only has our site become a key communication piece in furthering the kingdom of God here in North Indianapolis, but it was also a joy to work with these guys and see their hearts for God in action. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for a similar experience."

    Luke Newton
    Worship Director, Harvest Bible Chapel North Indy
    FriFridayFebFebruary20th2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Miami Harvest Miami is another plant that launched in 2009. In February, Jason Fevig graduated from the Harvest Training Center and started his church in Miami. We were excited to join with Jason to create a fresh website that reflected sunny Miami, while containing all the functionality and ease of use that is the iMinistries trademark.


    "iMinistires is a great ministry and terrific tool for the church. Our team was looking for a website that reflected the city Miami and yet communicated our passion. Travis and his team was able to meet and exceed our expectations. We will recommend them to any church organization looking for a brilliant website on a budget."

    Jason Fevig
    Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel Miami
    FriFridayJanJanuary9th2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - York Region In January, we unveiled a new look and feel for Harvest Bible Chapel York Region. They had previously been using one of our free skins for over a year and made the decision to go "all in" in the fourth quarter of 2008. We were excited for the opportunity to serve them in this way for it is one of our first websites which has an increased content space, as you can see from the screen shot below.

    "iMinistries provided us with a valuable resource at very reasonable cost. The timeliness of their turnaround and the creativity of their design allowed us to clearly communicate the gospel and effectively provide our church with relevant content. We continue to use iMinistries, and would recommend them to any church or organization looking to develop their online presence on a budget."

    Ruth Naismith
    Administrative Assistant


    SatSaturdaySepSeptember6th2008 Come to Harvest We created this website for a series featured at Harvest Bible Chapel. This site contained a welcome video by senior pastor, James MacDonald, an open invitation graphic, and linked to the main Harvest Bible Chapel website. This site is a great example of how video can be embedded on a homepage (or within your website) to dramatically represent your ministry.




    FriFridaySepSeptember5th2008 Harvest Bible Chapel - London Harvest Bible Chapel of London, Ontario is one of my favorites! Both the staff and the site are top notch. I hope to make it to their church and Harvest Oakville at some point if I ever make it to Canada. This site is another great example of how we can make your ministry's web presence fresh and eye-catching.


    "We switched to iMinistries in 2006 and we have never looked back. The quality and ease of use of the content management system is amazing, as our site is highly presentable, but requires little time from me to make it that way as all the pieces are already in place. We had our whole site customized in 2008 and I could not be happier with the way it turned out, and the level of customer service we received on the project was outstanding."

    Jon Sodemon
    Director of Administration
    Harvest Bible Chapel London, Ontario
    TueTuesdayAugAugust19th2008 Harvest Bible Chapel - Prescott
    Harvest Bible Chapel in Prescott is another Harvest church plant that chose to use us to improve their web-based ministry. We created a custom look for them with loads of great images that pop off the page.


    "We LOVE our new front page! I can't say it enough. It has added such a professional image to our church."

    Mark Stafford
    Director of Worship Arts
    Harvest Bible Chapel Prescott, Arizona
    SunSundayJunJune1st2008 Harvest Bible Fellowship Because I was on staff with Harvest Bible Fellowship and was in charge of implementing a design that mirrored their latest brochure, I am unable to give a review of iMinistries. However, I can say that I really like this site because of the podcasting area which is found in the Resources section.  I believe that it really showcases our blog functionality for you can sort on a variety of authors or tags, years and even months. You should check it out.

    TueTuesdayMarMarch25th2008 Live in the Light
    "We love iMinistries. As we were looking for a web provider that could handle all of our ministry needs, iMinistries just made sense. It has been a tremendous blessing to our church and so easy to use.

    Joshua Seller
    Worship Ministry Coordinator
    Harvest Bible Chapel Oakville


    FriFridayFebFebruary29th2008 Harvest Bible Chapel - Indy West, IN
    Harvest Bible Chapel Indy West was another Harvest church plant who turned to us for their web needs. We created a site for them that uses a similar format to our other Harvest plant sites, but still allows to show the church's unique personality.




    WedWednesdayOctOctober10th2007 Harvest Bible Chapel - Naperville, IL
    Harvest Bible Chapel Naperville is another example of how a church can implement its personality, logo, color scheme, and vision into its website. Although it is a Harvest church plant, its website is as unique and representative of itself as its people.