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    TueTuesdayAugAugust16th2011 Free Church Website Design Selected By Harvest North Phoenix
    Posted Tuesday, August 16 2011 @ 9 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Free Harvest Bible Chapel Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment

    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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    FriFridayMayMay6th2011 His House Christian Fellowship
    Posted Friday, May 06 2011 @ 3 PM byDavid Pohlmeier Tagged Branding Graphic Design Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    iMinistries had the privilege of working with His House Christian Fellowship to setup a website and create the branding for the ministry.

    According to the website -

    "His House Christian Fellowship has been serving Christ on the university campuses since 2001. It was at UW Oshkosh that the first ministry was begun by Jeremy and Lori Rush. In 2004, we incorporated as Wisconsin Christian Campus Ministries with a vision to reach the students across all the universities in Wisconsin. In 2007, a ministry was begun at UW Madison. Utilizing a house that had been associated with a previous ministry known as Koinonia House, His House began it's first bible studies and outreach meetings. In 2011, a ministry is forming at Lawrence University, located in Appleton, WI. "

    Along with the website, iMinistries created:
    • Logo
    • Branding Scheme



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    SunSundayMayMay1st2011 Fellowship Life
    Posted Sunday, May 01 2011 @ 4 PM byDavid Pohlmeier Tagged Branding Graphic Design Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    iMinistries had the privilege of working with Ty Gooch at Fellowship Life Bible Church to setup a website and create a logo and overall branding.

    Along with the website, iMinistries created:
    • Logo
    • Web Graphics
    • Printed Invitations


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    SunSundayMayMay1st2011 ONEHEARTBEAT
    Posted Sunday, May 01 2011 @ 3 PM by Tagged Branding Graphic Design Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    iMinistries had the privilege of working with Pastor Jeff Schwarzentraub from Harvest Denver to setup a website and create the branding for a ministry he founded called ONEHEARTBEAT.

    The mission of ONEHEARTBEAT is simple

    Making Fully Engaged Disciples who serve Christ and His church.

    Along with the website, iMinistries created:
    • Logo
    • Branding Scheme
    • Business Cards
    • Letterhead
    • Envelopes
    • Remittance Envelopes




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    ThuThursdayOctOctober28th2010 Mt. Laurel Evangelical Free Church
    Posted Thursday, October 28 2010 @ 9 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment

    Another customer finds comfort in being able to easily change their look with a flip of a switch!

    Mt. Laurel Evangelical Free Church has been a long time customer of our Church website CMS. They wanted to update their look but didn't want a new system to do it. They selected the Sinai Premium skin and within about a day, they had a brand new looking website!

    Before

    After


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    FriFridaySepSeptember17th2010 The Tower of Salvation
    Posted Friday, September 17 2010 @ 9 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Free Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment

    Can your church website morph with a click of a button?

    I don't mean you have your existing church website one day, and then you build another one. I mean you keep your existing website, select a new design template and hit save. Everything that you have including your menu, news, events, blogs, etc. all get wrapped inside of that new skin!

    So many of our customers are beginning to really appreciate the value of being able to change their church websites look and feel by changing their skin.

    Before

    After

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    We believe the best way to describe our tools is for you to try them out yourself. We offer a 15-day free trial account which will give you a few days to use all of the features available to our paying clients. There's no risk and no obligation. Who knows, you might even enjoy the new control you have over your very own website.

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    FriFridayAugAugust27th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - North Indy
    Posted Friday, August 27 2010 @ 9 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Free Harvest Bible Chapel Quote Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment

    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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    We believe the best way to describe our tools is for you to try them out yourself. We offer a 15-day free trial account which will give you a few days to use all of the features available to our paying clients. There's no risk and no obligation. Who knows, you might even enjoy the new control you have over your very own website.

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    FriFridayMayMay7th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Denver
    Posted Friday, May 07 2010 @ 9 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Harvest Skin Quote Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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
    TueTuesdayMarMarch30th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Tampa
    Posted Tuesday, March 30 2010 @ 9 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Harvest Skin Quote Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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
    FriFridayMarMarch26th2010 Live With Power
    Posted Friday, March 26 2010 @ 3 PM byTravis Hickox Tagged Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    Lina AbuJamra, M.D., MBA, speaker, and Bible teacher, wanted a way to promote her ministry. She needed a ministry website that could showcase her blog, her upcoming speaking engagements, and provide a way for people to contact her. Even with a custom skin and look, AbuJamra's Live With Power website was set up and live within weeks.

    Now she has a website that hosts her blog (which automatically updates her homepage), her events calendar, her Twitter feed, and more information about her (including a photo slide show).

    This sharp, fresh skin will be available for purchase when we launch our new Premium package.
    FriFridayMarMarch5th2010 Harvest Bible Chapel - Dallas
    Posted Friday, March 05 2010 @ 3 PM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Harvest Skin Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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!
    ThuThursdayFebFebruary18th2010 Potter's Field Ministries
    Posted Thursday, February 18 2010 @ 9 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Quote Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    Potter's Field Ministries wanted an updated look and better control of their content. So they called us.

    We took one of our free skins, Grunge, and made a few custom tweaks for them, including changing the menu color to red. They added a new header themselves with their updated logo and utilized our new Rotator feature to display scrolling ads on the home page.



    After their ministry website launched, we asked Potter's Field Ministries' Steve Venable, "You've worked with different website companies in the past. In your mind, what makes us different?" 
    "Yeah, I have worked with a few. iMinistries customer service, administrative interface, and ease of overall use is what makes it a much better choice for setting up and maintaining a website! Customer service is top-notch and the set-up experience, especially your willingness to port over existing content, was great (as usual). Also, the follow-up on issues and other related site specific needs was timely and consistent."
    Nothing makes us happier than seeing another satisfied customer with control over their ministry website.
    MonMondayDecDecember14th2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - London
    Posted Monday, December 14 2009 @ 9 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Harvest Skin Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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
    Posted Tuesday, December 01 2009 @ 3 PM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Harvest Skin Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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
    Posted Saturday, November 21 2009 @ 11 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Harvest Skin Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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
    Posted Monday, November 09 2009 @ 9 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Harvest Skin Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment

    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
    Posted Tuesday, November 03 2009 @ 9 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Harvest Skin Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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.
    WedWednesdayOctOctober28th2009 Hilltown Baptist
    Posted Wednesday, October 28 2009 @ 12 PM byTravis Hickox Tagged Semi-Custom 1 comments Add comment
    Hilltown Baptist in Hilltown, Pennsylvania has been a customer of iMinistries since January 2006. They wanted to freshen up their site and liked the look of our free skin, Colourise. However, they wanted to include their own background image in place of the "rainbow spectrum."



    The result, after adding a banner and ad that a member of their church created, is a custom-looking site for a fraction of the price. Hilltown Baptist and Harvest Bible Chapel Joliet are the latest of a few churches to take one of our free skins and put their own touch on it.

    Hilltown appreciates our many features and, that at a moments notice, you can give your website a dramatic face lift with a moments notice but without loosing existing content.
    FriFridayOctOctober23rd2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Joliet
    Posted Friday, October 23 2009 @ 9 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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.
    MonMondayAugAugust10th2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Palos
    Posted Monday, August 10 2009 @ 3 PM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Quote Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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.
    MonMondayMarMarch2nd2009 Harvest Bible Chapel - Glasgow, Scotland
    Posted Monday, March 02 2009 @ 8 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Quote Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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
    Posted Monday, March 02 2009 @ 8 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Quote Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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
    Posted Sunday, March 01 2009 @ 8 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Quote Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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
    Posted Friday, February 20 2009 @ 12 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Quote Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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
    ThuThursdaySepSeptember11th2008 The Tower Christian Community Church
    Posted Thursday, September 11 2008 @ 8 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Quote Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    In the fall of 2008, Senior Pastor Nathan DuPree began his church in the Reno, Nevada area. They signed up with us and had us modify one of our free skins that we offer. This is a great example of how one of our free skins can be customized to fit the needs of any church or ministry.


    "Working with iMinistries was such a great experience. They had the personal touch we were looking for in a website company, and it has made the difference in our relationship with iMinistries. Thanks guys."

    Senior Pastor Nathan DuPree
    The Tower Church
    TueTuesdayAugAugust19th2008 Harvest Bible Chapel - Prescott
    Posted Tuesday, August 19 2008 @ 8 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Quote Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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
    FriFridayFebFebruary29th2008 Harvest Bible Chapel - Indy West, IN
    Posted Friday, February 29 2008 @ 8 AM byTravis Hickox Tagged Harvest Bible Chapel Semi-Custom 0 comments Add comment
    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.
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