A fair question, and nobody has ever really answered it for you.
For ministries that have managed without one
What it does
None of these need anybody at your church to be good with computers.
Somebody types your town and the word church into a phone at eleven at night. Today they find a Facebook page last updated in 2019, or nothing. A website answers the two questions they have — where, and when — before they have to ask anyone.
The most asked question a church gets is the one nobody should have to ask. Put it on a page and it is answered a hundred times a week without anybody in the office picking up.
A recording posted to a social feed is gone in a week — nobody can find last year series again, not even you. A website keeps every one of them, in order, findable by book and by date, for as long as you keep the site.
People who want to support you often do not know how, and are too embarrassed to ask. One page with your own bank details or QR code removes that, and the money goes straight to your account — never through us.
A social account is somebody else page with your name on it. A website is yours: your statement of faith, in full, in your words, without a platform deciding who sees it.
A church whose people read Burmese, Chinese and English needs a site that does all three properly — not one language with the others as an afterthought.
The honest questions
These are the actual objections, not the ones a sales page invents so it can knock them down.
It is not nothing, and keep it. But it is not yours: the platform decides who sees a post, it hides anything older than a few weeks, and a person who is not signed in often cannot read it at all. Ask somebody to find your service times on it from a phone and watch how long it takes.
That is the normal situation, and it is what the admin screen is for — the same one this site is built on. If somebody can write a message on a phone, they can post a sermon. And you are not left alone with it: setup is done for you and small changes are included.
The opposite. A large church is already known; a congregation of forty is the one nobody can find. The smallest plan here is one page, and one page that answers where and when is worth more than a large site nobody maintains.
Prices start at US$69 and every one of them is on the pricing page rather than behind a quote. There is also a supported-ministry programme: a small number of free sites each month for ministries that genuinely cannot pay, and applying costs nothing.
No. Service times, an address, what you believe and how to give do not change from month to month. Post a sermon when you have one. A site that is accurate and quiet is doing its job.
Almost certainly not. Preaching, visiting and prayer matter more, and if the choice is between a website and a person who visits the sick, visit the sick. This is worth doing when it stops people finding you — not before.
If it is worth doing