In Build
Church / ministry
Forest Lake Baptist
A multi-generational church site that helps a first-time visitor find their place — clear next steps, ministries for every age, and giving on any device.
Strategy · Build · Live
Research
Church / ministry · Web strategy · WordPress build · Brand & UX system
Viens et Vois: a house of the Word, alive in the Spirit.
A bilingual church website that welcomes people as they are — service times up front, sermons and resources a click away, and a giving path that works on any phone.
Spec sheet
The facts.
- Client
- Viens et Vois (VCC) — Spirit-filled church community
- Sector
- Church / ministry
- Services
- Web strategy · WordPress build · Brand & UX system
- Languages
- French & English, throughout
- Audience
- Members, newcomers, and the wider community
- Stack
- Classic WordPress theme · sermon & media library · online giving
- Standard
- WCAG 2.1 AA · Core Web Vitals budget on every template
- Status
- Research — methodology and findings, not a shipped product
- Surfaces
- About, leadership, programmes, youth & kids, sermons, give, events
The work · Frames 01–04
/001/ Problem
A first-time visitor decides whether they belong long before they walk through a door — and a church website is usually where that decision is made.
A first-time visitor decides whether they belong long before they walk through a door — and a church website is usually where that decision is made.
/002/ Cost
When service times, language, and next steps aren't obvious, a newcomer doesn't email to ask — they simply don't come. Members fall back on word of mouth, the team re-answers the same questions every week, and giving stays tied to Sunday cash instead of a link anyone can use.
/003/ Answer
A bilingual, welcoming website that answers a newcomer's first questions before they ask, and gives members the sermons, programmes, and giving tools they actually use.
- Service times, location, and what to expect — stated plainly, in both French and English.
- A sermon and media library so messages and resources are always a click away.
- Programmes, youth & kids, and small groups laid out so every age finds its place.
- Online giving that works on any phone, framed as worship rather than an afterthought.
- Leadership, team, and prayer pages that put real faces and a real welcome up front.
/004/ Advantage
Bilingual isn't a toggle bolted on at the end — the whole site is built to read naturally in French and English, so no one feels like a guest in their own church. Clarity, warmth, and a fast mobile experience do the welcoming, every day, before anyone arrives.
Built to welcome.
FR · EN
Bilingual by design, French & English3
Weekly services, clear at a glanceGive
Online giving, built inLive
Shipped and publicly accessible today
Why this is labeled Live
Viens et Vois is shipped and running in production. The figures above describe what the site does — bilingual structure, service clarity, and built-in giving — not outcome claims. Attendance and giving numbers get published when the data verifies them, not before. That's what the label system is for.
/006/ Next
Deeper media archives with sermon series and transcripts, an events and registration flow for conferences and youth nights, and richer small-group tools — each shipped behind the same bilingual, accessible, performance-budgeted standard the launch holds today.
Client · Recommendation
“The site finally sounds like our church — warm in both French and English. People find a service time, hear a message, and give without a single phone call, and a newcomer can feel welcome before they ever walk in.”
Anonymous member · Viens et Vois
Have a community that needs to welcome everyone?
Viens et Vois meets people in two languages before they arrive. If welcome and trust are the whole game for your organization, that's exactly what we build — starting with a diagnosis, never a blind quote.