Church House Church Network Website Template
Lantern Houses
A network of nine house churches has an unusual problem: it cannot publish its own addresses. The whole site is built around a drawn map of neighborhoods and one honest request, 'Ask for an address', so a stranger can get to someone's dinner table without anyone's home ending up on Google.
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- Built for
- Portlanders who are wary of big churches, people new to the city, and potential hosts deciding whether they could open their living room once a week.
- Navigation
- Corner controls. Name in one corner, menu in the opposite corner, primary action in a third. The page itself has no header bar.
Names, photos, times and stories in this template are sample content. Your version uses your own words, photos and branding.
Why it looks this way.
- Typography
Familjen Grotesk carries the headings. It is a grotesque with a little hand-cut irregularity, so it feels like a sign someone lettered by hand. Newsreader sets the body text with the warmth of a printed letter, and DM Mono handles nights and neighborhoods like a transit timetable.
- Familjen Grotesk headlines
- Newsreader body text
- DM Mono labels
- Color
Deep Douglas-fir green and a lantern amber, set on a rainy blue-gray paper. Portland is overcast nine months a year, and the brightest thing on a November street is a lit window. The dark theme leans into exactly that: a near-black blue with the amber glowing.
- Page
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- Page
- Layout
Corner controls keep the top of each page clear for the map and photographs. The name sits in one corner, the menu in another, and 'Ask for an address' is always one tap away, because it is the only step a newcomer really has to take.
Pages: Home, The houses, An evening, Ask for an address, Host a house, How we're knit
- Hero
The home page opens on a drawn map of the city with nine pins: one per house, labeled by neighborhood and night, never by street address. Pointing at a house lights its pin. It answers 'is there one near me?' before anything else.
- Calls to action
'Find a house near you' and 'Ask for an address' describe exactly what happens next: a host texts you their address and what is for supper. Hosting gets its own quieter action, 'Talk about hosting', because nobody should be pushed into opening their home.
- Photography
Sofas, rugs, guitars and crowded tables. Every photo is of a room that could be a real living room, with people sitting down, because that is what an evening is.
- Accessibility
Each house lists its stairs, pets and step-free entry so people can choose before they ask. The map is backed by a plain list that works with a keyboard and a screen reader, and the rounded pill buttons have large tap targets on phones.
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