For established churches
People who visit your church love it. Let’s help more of them find it.
The Word is preached. Your people care for one another. Guests who walk through the doors can feel the warmth right away. The problem is that most of your neighbors never get far enough to see it.
If you’d like more of your community to discover the church you already are, we’d love to show you what that could look like.
At Bayview Church, average Sunday attendance has grown nearly 20% since we started working together.
More than 100 churches. 98% stay with us; we’re decades-long ministry partners.
What you may be noticing
Why don’t more of our neighbors know about us?
What people love about your church happens inside the building. Your neighbors decide whether to visit long before they get there, usually from a phone, and the warmth they’d find on Sunday rarely comes through on a screen.
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Families who moved in over the last few years haven’t heard of you.
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Your website was built for an earlier season, and it doesn’t look like the church people meet on Sunday.
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Outreach happens when someone has a free weekend.
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You’d like to reach further and aren’t sure where to start.
Your church has a lot to give the people around it. More of them could see it.
How we’d help
How do we do this? The Antioch Bridge
One connected system, built and run by Digital Outreach.
The Antioch Bridge is how more of them see it. Every new person crosses the same bridge to your church: finding you, being welcomed, and finding a place to belong. Your people already welcome guests well once they’re in the room. We help that welcome begin sooner, before anyone reaches your front door. We call it digital hospitality.
Your message and your convictions stay as they are. We build the rest of the bridge with you and keep it standing, so everything a neighbor sees online looks and sounds like the church they’d meet on Sunday.
Span 1 of 3: DiscoverEasy to find
Would a family who just moved here find us?
When someone nearby searches for a church, or starts asking questions about faith, your church is easy to find. What they come across is a clear, warm picture of the church you already are.
Showing up when neighbors search
Your church in search results and on social media across your community
A website for first-time guests
A website that looks like the church people meet on Sunday
What to expect
Clear answers to “what’s a Sunday like here?”
Span 2 of 3: WelcomeClear to understand · Comfortable to step into
Would a first-time guest know what to expect?
A guest decides a lot before Sunday. Your website makes your church clear to understand: what a Sunday is like, where to park, and what happens with the kids. By the time they pull into the lot, walking through your doors feels comfortable.
Plan your visit
A way for guests to tell you they’re coming, connected to your welcome team
Personal follow-up
Follow-up after a first visit, written in your church’s voice
A clear next step
One obvious next step after a first Sunday
Span 3 of 3: BelongReady to welcome people well
Do the guests who visit come back?
When a guest visits once and doesn’t return, the reason is often small. No one followed up, or the next step wasn’t clear. We help your church be ready to welcome each guest well after Sunday too, with a personal follow-up in your church’s voice and a simple path into a group, a place to serve, and membership.
Ways to belong
Paths into groups, serving, and membership
Staying in touch
Ongoing communication with new families
Where guests stop coming
A plain view of where people get stuck, so you know who to call
You keep preaching, shepherding, and leading. We carry the digital work that helps your neighbors find you and find their way in.
Let’s map the path for your church.
A 30-minute call with Matt Engler, our co-founder, to see where your church stands on each span and where we’d start. You’ll leave with that whether or not we ever work together.
What pastors are saying
Four things a healthy church wants to know before investing in outreach.
Bayview Church
growth in average Sunday attendance
01On results
“Totally professional people. Very flexible and responsive across a 14 hr time difference. We’ve seen nearly a 20% growth in average Sunday attendance since we’ve been using them.”
Stephen Wolborsky
Elder, Bayview Church
02On ministry
Ministry in their bones.
“What really matters is that the Digital Outreach team has ministry in their bones and gospel centrality in their bones. They understand that it is about people, not just metrics.”
Jeremy Tetreau
Pastor, Southeast Valley
of new visitors who told Southeast Valley how they found it named a web search, during the period the church measured
03On staying who we are
Who we are now comes through online.
“Digital Outreach has removed that gap and created compelling integrity between who we are and what people experience on the web.”
Matthew Poole
Harvest Cary
04On partnership
A partner for the next phase of ministry.
“We have enjoyed working with Digital Outreach to get our site to where we wanted it to be for the next phase of ministry in our city. They did a great job! Additionally, we are excited for them to be an ongoing partner with us to help us represent who we are well to our community.”
Tanner Hogue
Pastor, Port City Church
100+
Churches served
98%
Partnership retention
The Engagement Guarantee
If you don’t see three new guests a month within six months, your service is free until you do.
Ad budget not included.
On the call, Matt will walk you through what that asks of your church.
If you’re curious what this could look like for your church, we’d be glad to talk. In thirty minutes, we’ll look at where your church stands on each span of the bridge and where we’d start, and you can decide what comes next.
Whenever the timing is right.
Who we serve
Will they share what we believe?
Everyone on our team serves in a local church of their own, and we’d be representing yours online. So we’d rather be clear with you now than surprise you later.
We’re a good fit if
We aren’t the right partner if
We’re a good fit if
The gospel is at the center of your preaching.
We aren’t the right partner if
The gospel isn’t at the center of what’s preached on Sunday.
We’re a good fit if
You want your neighbors to find a home at your church.
We aren’t the right partner if
Reaching new people in your community isn’t a real priority.
We’ve turned churches away over this before. We’d rather tell you that now than discover halfway through the work that we aren’t aligned.
Questions
Questions you may be asking
We’re doing well. Why would we change anything?
You may not need to change much. A healthy church often has more to offer than its neighbors realize, and what’s missing is usually how easy the church is to find and approach. We start with what’s already strong in your church and build outward from there.
We don’t want to turn church into marketing.
Everything we build is meant to help a family find your church, understand who you are, and arrive with confidence. The online experience should simply tell the truth about the church they’ll meet on Sunday.
Will this change who we are?
We build around the church you already are, starting with your theology, your preaching, and your convictions, so a family who finds you online meets the same church on Sunday.
What if people in our area aren’t looking for a church?
Some are, right now. Others aren’t yet, but they’re open, and people tend to start looking when life shifts, such as after a move or a new baby. When that moment comes, they choose from the churches they can find. We help yours be one of them.
How much will this ask of me and our team?
Most of your part comes at the start: telling us about your church, giving us access to the tools we’ll need, and a few conversations along the way. After that, we carry the digital work. Your church keeps the work only it can do, welcoming people in person and caring for them.
What would this cost us?
There’s a one-time build in your first ninety days, then a monthly partnership, plus an ad budget your church pays directly to Google and Facebook, not to us. Matt will walk you through the numbers on the call and put them in writing for your elders.
Our elders will want to weigh this. Can you help?
We’d expect that, and it’s good stewardship. We’ll give your elders a short, clear explanation of what we’d build, who carries what, and how the cost is structured, so they can weigh it well.
Not ready to talk yet?
Who lives within fifteen minutes of our church?
You know your people well. This is a fresh look at your neighbors. It’s the same community research we do at the start of every partnership, and you can have yours now without a call. It shows who lives within about fifteen minutes of your church, how the area is changing, and where your church is well placed to connect.
Every figure comes from public sources such as the U.S. Census, the U.S. Religion Census, and Pew Research, and every estimate is labeled as one.
There’s no charge, and it arrives within a week. We’ll reach out first to confirm where your church meets, so the report centers on the right neighborhood.
From pastors who have read theirs
I’m not exaggerating by saying I was blown away. Professionally done. Didn’t know all that was available. I actually feel more hope, which is good at my age. Well, I’m pretty encouraged.
Bob Schembre
Pastor, Christ Fellowship
This information is amazing and I’m beyond grateful for the work here! Seriously, this is amazing data and a beautiful picture of what God has been doing!
Jeff Brown
Lead Pastor, North City Church
I’ve really enjoyed your report and I’m super impressed by it in comparison to others I have received in the past.
Josh Meyers
Lead Pastor, Destination Church
Let’s talk about your church.
People in your community are looking for hope, and for Jesus. Your church has been faithfully pointing to Him for a long time. We want to help more of your neighbors find you, and help you welcome them well. If a conversation would help, we’d be glad to have one.
Whenever the timing works for you.
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”
Matthew 5:14, ESV