About Rayspring Ministry Digital
Why this exists
Most ministry websites fail for the same two reasons.
The first is cost. A church with forty members and a pastor on a support allowance is quoted the same as a small business, and quietly gives up. The second is abandonment: a volunteer builds something, the volunteer moves away, and two years later the service times are still wrong and nobody knows the password.
This service is built around both problems. Prices are fixed and published, so nobody has to ask what it will cost before they can plan. And every site is handed over complete — the ministry owns the domain, the content and the login, and staff publish updates themselves without writing to a developer first.
That is also the honest limit of it. This is not a full-service agency, and it does not pretend to be one.
Who is responsible
One person is responsible, and here is what that means in practice.
Rayspring Ministry Digital is the ministry-focused service of Rayspring Tech, a digital studio Ray operates independently. There is no sales team and no account manager: the person who answers your first message is the person who builds the site and the person you write to two years later.
That is the main advantage of working this way. The fair question is what happens if he is not there, and the answer should not be a shrug:
- Your domain and hosting are registered in your name. Not resold through us, so nothing has to be transferred if you leave — you already hold it.
- Backups run automatically, and a copy of the site and its database can be handed to you on request at any time.
- The site is built on ordinary PHP and MySQL with no proprietary platform underneath. Any competent developer can pick it up; you are not locked to one person by the technology.
- The handover is a real one — a walkthrough and written notes, because if publishing an update requires me, the design has failed.
- Long-term maintenance is a written arrangement, not a favour. What the annual fee covers is on the pricing page, and what it does not cover is there too.
- Only a limited number of new projects are taken each month. That is why some months there is a wait, and it is also why the ones in progress are not queued behind twenty others.
Scope and price are agreed in writing before anything starts. Nothing is added to an invoice that was not discussed first.
How I work
Six things you can hold me to.
- Published prices. Every figure on this site is the real one. You will not be quoted differently because of who you are.
- Honest scope. What is included and what is not is written down before you pay anything.
- You own it. Your domain, your content, your admin login. If you want to leave, you can, and the site goes with you.
- Phone first. Designed for a small screen on a slow connection, because that is where your congregation actually is.
- Maintainable by you. If publishing an update requires me, the design has failed.
- Your money stays yours. Donations through your website go straight to your own account. This service never holds, manages or distributes them.
How a project runs
What actually happens, in order.
No surprises, and you always know whose turn it is.
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You describe the ministry
What you do, who you are trying to reach, and what is not working online at the moment.
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You get a written recommendation
A plan, a template, a price and a timeline. In writing, before any commitment.
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You send your content
Text and photos. This is usually the slowest step, and it is the one only you can do.
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You review a real site
Not a mockup — the actual website, at a private address, with your content in it.
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Launch and handover
Domain, admin login and a walkthrough of publishing an update yourself.
Tell me what your ministry is trying to do.
You will get a straight answer about whether this service fits, including if the answer is no.
Who this is for
Built for the way ministries actually work
Small budgets, no technical staff, and a real story that deserves to be told properly.
- Churches Service times, location, sermons and giving — everything a visitor looks for before they come.
- Missionaries Your calling, your field, your prayer needs and how supporters can stand with you.
- Pastors and preachers A permanent home for your teaching, instead of sermons disappearing down a Facebook feed.
- Christian nonprofits Projects, reports and volunteer sign-ups presented clearly enough to be trusted.
- Bible schools and seminaries Courses, faculty and admissions information that prospective students can actually find.
- Community ministries Children’s homes, feeding programmes and outreach work — told honestly and simply.