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Awaken Atlanta
A warm, neighborhood-centered voice focused on belonging, practical faith, and helping Atlanta come alive in Jesus.
Explore our church marketing FAQ for clear answers about services, pricing, social media, websites, advertising, Plan Your Visit campaigns, Google Ad Grants, and what it looks like to add our team to yours.
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Your church should never sound like a generic marketing agency—or like another church. We build your content around the language, convictions, personality, and people that already make your ministry distinct.
You are assigned a marketing manager who works with you day to day and is directly accountable for learning and protecting your church’s voice. That person becomes the bridge between your leadership and our creative teams.
We document your theology, ministry values, preferred language, target demographic, community context, leadership tone, visual branding, communication goals, and any topics that require special care.
Our sophisticated, shared content calendar lets you see captions, graphics, videos, and campaign copy before publication. Your team can review, approve, comment, and request adjustments in one organized place.
Your feedback is not treated as a one-time revision. It becomes part of the working brand knowledge your marketing manager and production team use for future content.
Atlanta client example
A warm, neighborhood-centered voice focused on belonging, practical faith, and helping Atlanta come alive in Jesus.
Atlanta client example
A bold, presence-centered and prophetic voice focused on reformation, activation, and equipping believers.
Creative Church Marketing acts as an all-in-one digital marketing team for churches. Instead of asking your staff to coordinate separate freelancers for social media, design, video, websites, advertising, and strategy, our departments work together under one coordinated plan.
Depending on your package or custom scope, we can manage social media, create graphics and videos, edit sermon content, manage YouTube, build or update your website, improve local search visibility, run visitor campaigns, assist with the Google Ad Grant, and report on performance.
Our primary focus is churches and faith-based ministries. We work with church plants, established congregations, multi-ministry churches, and organizations of different sizes and traditions. We also build custom marketing systems for nonprofits.
Every relationship starts with a fit conversation so we can understand your mission, goals, culture, audience, and the kind of support your team actually needs.
Church marketing has a different rhythm, responsibility, and audience than ordinary commercial marketing. Our team understands Sunday services, sermon series, ministry seasons, first-time guest concerns, volunteer capacity, church language, and the need to protect the integrity of your message.
We also connect the work. Content earns attention, ads amplify the right message, your website gives people a clear next step, and reporting shows what is working. You get coordinated execution instead of disconnected deliverables from multiple vendors.
Yes. A church does not need a large staff, a professional media team, or a massive content library to begin. We recommend a scope based on your goals, local opportunity, available assets, and budget—not simply the size of your congregation.
For smaller teams, the greatest value is often consistency: keeping your pages active, repurposing Sunday messages, making the website visitor-ready, and giving local families a clear way to connect.
We are built for done-for-you execution. Strategy is important, but we do more than tell your team what to do. Our specialists create, edit, publish, build, optimize, and manage the work included in your scope.
For churches that want to keep marketing in-house, we also offer a “Build Your Own Church Marketing Department” training option designed to equip staff members or volunteers with proven systems.
Yes. Creative Church Marketing can function as an extension of the team you already have, not a replacement for people who are serving well. During onboarding, we clarify what your staff or volunteers want to keep, what our team will own, who provides assets, and who gives final approval.
Some churches ask us to manage nearly everything day to day. Others keep photography, announcements, pastoral communication, or certain ministry accounts in-house. We build a clear workflow around your people so responsibilities do not overlap and important work does not fall through the cracks.
What we create and manage
Depending on the package, we can support Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and X/Twitter. We also help manage your Google presence through Google Business Profile and search-focused campaigns.
We do not recommend posting identical content everywhere without thought. Captions, formats, hooks, video dimensions, and calls to action are adapted to the platforms that matter most for your church.
Our creative teams can produce sermon clips, Reels and Shorts, social media graphics, quote graphics, memes, flyers, event promotions, sermon-series artwork, slides, lower thirds, YouTube thumbnails, sermon bumpers, announcement videos, ministry promos, Sunday highlights, and other campaign assets.
Deliverables vary by package and project. The goal is not merely to make content look polished; it is to make it useful, shareable, on-brand, and connected to a clear ministry objective.
Volume depends on the package and the needs confirmed in your agreement. The current public Church Growth Package includes daily social content and three sermon clips each week, along with additional design, video, website, YouTube, advertising, and reporting support.
Custom engagements may use a different cadence. Your proposal or service agreement is the final source for exact quantities, platforms, and turnaround expectations.
Yes, social media management can include content planning, caption writing, event updates, scheduling, publishing, and page-comment moderation. We build content around the 3Es: Entertain, Educate, and Encourage, so your feed offers value instead of becoming a stream of announcements.
Direct-message handling, pastoral-care conversations, crisis responses, and any sensitive community issues should be assigned clear boundaries during onboarding.
Yes. Available YouTube support includes sermon or video uploads, livestream editing, thumbnail design, title optimization, channel organization, short-form clips, and discoverability improvements. Podcast editing or repurposing can also be included where it fits the scope.
One long sermon, livestream, or podcast can become multiple platform-native pieces of content, helping the message continue working throughout the week.
Yes. We create coordinated campaigns for sermon series, Easter, Christmas, baptisms, conferences, volunteer recruitment, kids ministry, youth ministry, community events, and other ministry priorities.
A separate ministry account—such as a kids or youth ministry—can be added as an additional scope. Pricing is based on the number of channels, content volume, and level of management required.
We do not rely on one-click AI output and publish it without human judgment. Human strategists, designers, editors, and managers remain responsible for the message, creative decisions, quality control, and final delivery.
Behind the scenes, our team may use AI-assisted tools for tasks such as transcript review, research, ideation, workflow efficiency, or analytics. For sermon clips, a human editor still selects and shapes the moment, tightens pacing, creates the hook, adds captions and visual movement, and reviews the finished clip.
When editable files are included in the project scope, we can hand off applicable Canva, PSD, or other working assets. Some licensed templates, fonts, stock media, plugins, or third-party elements may have usage restrictions and cannot always be transferred independently.
If source-file access is important to your team, include that requirement during discovery so it can be documented before production begins.
Your digital front door
Yes. We build full church websites, redesign existing sites, and create high-converting landing pages. Our website work is designed to serve both current members and first-time guests, with clear paths for service information, events, sermons, giving, ministries, and planning a visit.
The exact number of pages, integrations, copywriting needs, and technical features are confirmed in the website scope.
Yes. Ongoing management can include sermon uploads, event updates, image and text changes, staff or ministry updates, forms, first-time-visitor pages, livestream embeds, landing pages, routine maintenance, and other approved content requests.
We treat the website as a living ministry platform—not a one-time brochure that is forgotten after launch.
WordPress and Elementor are our primary website tools because they allow flexible design and ongoing management. We can also evaluate an existing content-management system and determine whether it is practical to maintain, improve, migrate, or rebuild.
Any platform limitations, premium licenses, custom development needs, or migration risks are discussed before the work is approved.
They can. Website scopes may include mobile optimization, speed and usability improvements, search-friendly structure, local SEO, Google Business Profile support, visitor-focused calls to action, event pages, campaign landing pages, forms, and conversion tracking.
SEO is an ongoing, compounding process. Technical improvements can be made quickly, but meaningful search growth normally requires consistent optimization, relevant content, and time.
Your church should remain the owner of its domain, hosting, website, advertising accounts, and core digital properties. When a platform supports delegated or partner access, we prefer that method so your team does not have to share a primary password.
Third-party costs—such as hosting, domains, premium plugins, or special software—are separate unless your written scope specifically says otherwise.
Turning attention into next steps
A Plan Your Visit campaign is a visitor-focused system designed to turn local online attention into a clear next step. It typically combines targeted social advertising, a church-specific video or creative, a conversion-focused landing page, and automated follow-up.
Instead of sending people to a generic homepage, the campaign invites them to choose a Sunday, share their contact information, learn what to expect, and begin a welcoming conversation before they arrive.
The visitor submits information through the campaign landing page, including the Sunday they are considering and the contact details requested by the form. The follow-up system can send personalized text messages, emails, reminders, and—when included—voicemail touches.
We also establish the handoff to your church so a real person can welcome the family, answer questions, and prepare for their arrival. Automation opens the door; ministry follow-through builds the relationship.
Campaigns may use Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Google, depending on the objective. A typical local visitor campaign focuses on families and other relevant audiences within roughly an 8–10-mile radius, then uses creative testing and retargeting to improve performance.
Targeting is customized to your location, service model, ministry strengths, audience, season, and budget rather than copied from another church.
No. Ad spend is paid to the advertising platform and is separate from Creative Church Marketing’s service or management fee. Your church controls the approved budget.
We recommend a budget after reviewing your goals, geography, audience size, timing, and campaign type. Larger budgets can create more testing and reach, but no budget removes the need for strong creative, a clear offer, and consistent follow-up.
No responsible marketing partner can promise a specific attendance or membership result in every market. Results vary based on location, audience, budget, creative, church activity, seasonality, follow-up, and other factors outside any agency’s control.
We build campaigns around measurable actions—such as planned visits, form submissions, video engagement, website traffic, and cost per lead—then test and optimize. Our First Month Satisfaction Guarantee is a service-fee policy with specific eligibility terms; it is not a guarantee of a particular result.
Yes. We can build seasonal and event-specific campaigns for Easter, Christmas, baptisms, conferences, new locations, sermon series, community outreach, kids events, and other strategic moments.
For the best launch, your team should provide dates, service details, capacity, approved messaging, and usable media early enough for creative production, tracking, testing, and follow-up setup.
Search visibility for eligible nonprofits
The Google Ad Grant gives eligible nonprofit organizations access to up to $10,000 per month in Google Search advertising. It can help your church appear when people search for relevant services, events, ministry resources, spiritual questions, or other approved topics.
The grant is advertising credit—not cash—and it is subject to Google’s eligibility, website, campaign, and ongoing compliance requirements.
No. Eligibility must be verified. In the United States, the organization generally needs qualifying nonprofit status, approval through Google for Nonprofits, an eligible and functional website, and compliance with Google’s program policies.
Our team can review your current status, identify missing requirements, and explain the next steps before an application is submitted.
Yes. Depending on your package, our work can include application support, account setup, campaign creation, keyword and search-term strategy, landing-page recommendations, conversion tracking, ongoing optimization, reporting, and compliance management.
Approval is controlled by Google, so we cannot promise that every application will be accepted or accepted on a specific date.
No. Google Ad Grant credit is used inside the eligible Google Ads account for approved Google Search campaigns. It does not become cash and cannot be transferred to Meta, TikTok, standard paid YouTube campaigns, production costs, or agency fees.
Paid social and other advertising budgets are planned separately.
Not necessarily. The grant provides access to up to the monthly limit. Actual spend and results depend on search demand, eligible keywords, location, ad quality, landing pages, conversion strategy, competition, and ongoing compliance.
Our focus is not spending credit merely to say it was spent. We build useful campaigns around relevant searches and measurable ministry actions, then improve them over time.
Packages, budgets, and terms
The current public church packages are:
Custom nonprofit, training, website, multi-ministry, and special-project scopes are quoted separately. Always confirm current pricing and inclusions on the pricing page or in your written proposal.
The Sunday Visitor Package concentrates on attracting and following up with prospective Sunday guests. It is the more focused option for churches whose immediate priority is local visitor generation.
The Church Growth Package is designed to manage a much larger portion of the church’s online presence—including ongoing content, social platforms, video, design, YouTube, website work, search visibility, advertising, and reporting.
The current public Sunday Visitor Package is advertised with no deposit, no contract, and no three-month commitment. Terms for the Church Growth Package, custom work, websites, nonprofits, or special projects may differ and should be confirmed in the written agreement.
We recommend reviewing the scope, cancellation terms, third-party costs, ad budget, and deliverables before onboarding so there are no surprises.
Yes. A public package can be a starting point, but the final recommendation should reflect your actual priorities. We can quote additional social accounts, a kids or youth ministry, a special campaign, a website project, a podcast workflow, training, or other approved work.
Custom pricing is based on the number of channels, content volume, technical complexity, turnaround expectations, and level of ongoing management.
The published guarantee applies only when all eligibility requirements are met. As currently written, it is for first-time clients who enroll in the $997/month Church Growth Package, launch a paid campaign during the first month, and allocate at least $500 in ad spend.
An eligible written request must be submitted within the first 30 calendar days. The maximum eligible refund is the $997 service fee; ad spend is paid to third-party platforms and is not refundable. Client delays, missing assets, or unapproved deliverables may affect eligibility.
Read the complete Satisfaction Guarantee terms before relying on the offer.
Advertising spend is separate and paid to the ad platform. Depending on the project, other third-party expenses may include domains, hosting, premium plugins, software subscriptions, stock-media licensing, printing, or specialized integrations.
No separate expense should be assumed to be included unless it appears in the written scope. We identify required third-party costs and seek approval before adding them.
How partnership works
The process normally moves through four stages: discovery and onboarding, an initial strategy blueprint, recurring execution cycles, and measurement with ongoing refinement.
We typically need a responsive point of contact, brand assets, current service and ministry information, event dates, access to the platforms included in your scope, existing website and analytics details, sermon recordings, photos or video, and timely approvals.
For stronger original content, your team may also capture simple phone footage, testimonials, behind-the-scenes moments, and short talking-head updates. We can provide prompts, shot lists, and practical filming guidance.
Initial discovery and strategy are typically the first stage, with production and execution following as access, assets, approvals, and technical setup are completed. A simple social workflow can begin faster than a website build, ad-account repair, or Google Ad Grant application.
Your onboarding plan should include real dates for the first deliverables. Missing access, incomplete information, late footage, or delayed approvals can move those dates.
Your church is given a dedicated point of contact—typically a Marketing or Account Manager—who coordinates the internal specialists working on your account. That person helps translate your priorities into tasks and keeps communication from becoming a chase across multiple vendors.
Behind that point of contact are specialized teams for strategy, social media, design, video, sermon clips, websites, advertising, and other included services.
We use an organized workflow with shared calendars, folders, tasks, and batch approvals so your team is not interrupted by one-off requests all day. Approval rules can be adjusted based on your church’s comfort level and the type of content.
Revision rounds, emergency requests, and turnaround times should follow the written scope. Clear feedback—what needs to change and why—helps the creative team revise quickly while protecting brand consistency.
Meeting cadence is set by the package and client need. Many engagements use regular strategy check-ins with monthly or biweekly calls, supported by ongoing project updates.
Reporting can include people reached, top-performing posts and videos, planned visits or conversions, follower and subscriber growth, website traffic, advertising performance, search visibility, and recommended next actions. We focus on metrics connected to ministry goals—not vanity numbers alone.
Production and campaign dates may need to move. Our team cannot publish accurate event information, launch tracking, edit missing footage, or complete a website update without the required materials and permissions.
Choose one responsive decision-maker, submit event information early, and use batch approvals whenever possible. Under the published satisfaction-guarantee terms, client-caused delays or missing assets can also affect refund eligibility.
Use delegated, partner, or role-based access whenever the platform offers it. Your church should retain ownership, billing control, recovery methods, and primary administrator access.
Avoid sending primary passwords through ordinary email or text. We will guide you through the appropriate access method for platforms such as your website host, social accounts, ad accounts, analytics, and Google tools.
Mission-driven growth beyond churches
Yes. We build custom digital-presence systems for nonprofits and mission-driven organizations. The scope can combine website management, social media, video and graphic production, landing pages, paid advertising, local SEO, Google Business Profile management, email or follow-up workflows, and reporting.
Because nonprofit goals vary widely, these engagements are usually quoted around the organization’s programs, locations, audiences, fundraising model, and internal capacity.
We lead with value and trust. Content is organized around the 3Es—Entertain, Educate, and Encourage—along with authentic stories, practical resources, impact moments, testimonials, and platform-native video.
Promotion works better after attention and credibility have been earned. Paid ads can then amplify proven content, retarget engaged audiences, and guide high-intent people to a program, event, application, volunteer opportunity, or donation path.
Yes. For remote engagements, ordinary phone footage, workshop clips, photos, testimonials, and talking-head updates can become polished Reels, Shorts, highlight edits, graphics, and longer videos. We can provide a simple capture plan so staff members are not guessing.
Podcast strategy, episode editing, clip extraction, custom campaigns, multi-location local SEO, and other specialized work can be included when documented in the proposal.
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