Ministry Church Planting Network Website Template
Seedline Network
Seedline is a network that recruits, trains, pays and coaches church planters along the Front Range. Its visitors are mostly pastors weighing a decision that will shape a decade of their family's life, so the site reads like a careful report rather than a recruitment poster.
Starting at $500
Start with this design and I’ll personalize it with your branding, photos and words. Keep your current domain or get a new one.
Changes you make in the editor stay in your own browser, so try anything.
- Built for
- Prospective planters and their spouses, pastors of established churches thinking about sending someone, and individual donors who fund residencies.
- Navigation
- Contents column. A right-hand contents list tracks where you are on long pages, the way a well-made book or report does.
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
Instrument Sans carries the headlines: a plain, slightly narrow grotesque that looks organized without looking corporate. Newsreader sets the long text at 18px because planters read these pages properly, often twice, and often with a spouse. DM Mono handles labels and figures, borrowing the look of a surveyor's field book, which suits a network that literally maps neighborhoods.
- Instrument Sans headlines
- Newsreader body text
- DM Mono labels
- Color
The ground is a pale granite gray taken from the boulders at Red Rocks, the brand color is the dark green of Front Range spruce, and the single accent is the gold of the aspens on Kenosha Pass in late September. The dark theme is a deep forest night rather than an inversion, with the green lifted to a pale sage so it still reads as the same organization.
- Page
#ECEDE8 - Cards
#F8F8F4 - Text
#171B19 - Brand
#1F4A3F - Accent
#D39B2A
- Page
- Layout
Pages here are long and get read, so a contents column on the right tracks where you are, the way a good report does. The discovery-call button sits permanently at the foot of that column, so the one action that matters is always a glance away without shouting.
Pages: Home, Become a planter, The churches, Sending churches, Coaches & staff, Field notes
- Hero
The home page opens with five plain sentences stepping down the page: fourteen churches, eleven neighborhoods, no buildings. Planters are weary of grand vision language; facts about what has actually been planted are more persuasive and more honest. The figures and the four-stage pathway follow immediately.
- Calls to action
The main action is "Book a discovery call" because that is honestly the first step: forty-five minutes, no commitment. Sending churches get their own verb, "Become a sending church", and the giving link stays quiet in ghost style, because donors who arrive here have usually already been asked in person.
- Photography
No stage lights and no crowds. The photographs are living rooms, long tables, a theater lobby and a rec-center hall, because those are the rooms Seedline churches meet in, and a would-be planter needs to picture a church of thirty-five rather than three thousand.
- Accessibility
Body text is 18px with a 64-character measure. Every color pair passes WCAG AA in both themes, and the spruce-on-granite headline pair passes AAA. The contents column collapses on phones so nothing competes with the text, and every form field has a visible label.
Like where this is going?
Starting at $500
Start with this design
Your colors, logo, photos and words, on a layout that already works.
Start with This DesignStarting at $1,500
Build something custom
A new design shaped around your organization from the first sketch.
Start a Custom WebsiteBoth include keeping your current domain or getting a new one, plus simple editing tools for your team. Monthly hosting and care plans are listed on Services & Pricing.