Union
sdarm.org.au
The Australasian Union: six conferences and missions, ten departments, Union-wide events and online giving.
See it liveChurch website template
Like what you see? Get this website for your church.
The design and features behind sdarm.org.au, ready to carry your name, services, events and giving, in a version made for a union, a conference or a local church. Built once, carefully, so every church can share in it.
Made by the church, for the church
Custom built for SDARM by the AUC Media Department
This theme and template were designed and built from the ground up by the Media Department of the Australasian Union Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement, specifically for SDARM churches, conferences and unions.
It is not an off-the-shelf theme. Every page and feature was shaped around how our churches worship, give, gather and share the gospel, and it is looked after by the same team that runs sdarm.org.au.
In use today
One template, from a single congregation to a whole union
sdarm
Local church
maranathachurch.org.au
Maranatha Church, Kalkallo VIC: services, prayer and Bible study requests, and giving.
See it liveLocal church
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Guildford Church, Western Australia: weekly program, events and leadership team.
See it liveWhat you get
Everything a church website needs, already working together
Not a theme you have to finish yourself. Each part below is built, tested and running on a live church site.
Events calendar
Weekly services that repeat on their own, plus camps and seminars across every region.
- Services set up once, with custom repeat patterns
- Filter by date, and by in person or online
- List and month views
- A past-events archive, and the next event in the menu
Event registrations
Sign-ups for camps and seminars, with the paperwork done for you.
- A ticket code with every booking
- Capacity limits and a waitlist
- Reminders before the day
- Guest cancellation option
- The attendee list as a CSV file
Online giving
One gift, split across tithe and offerings, by card.
- PayPal, Stripe or another gateway your church can use
- Tithe directed to the right conference
- Set amounts, or any amount
- A thank-you page with a receipt
Branded emails
Every email the site sends looks like it came from your church.
- Your name, logo and colours
- A receipt for the giver and a notice for the treasurer
- Registration confirmations and reminders
- Replies to prayer, study and contact requests
Church finder and maps
Every church on Google Maps, with your own pins.
- Search by suburb, town or postcode
- The nearest church, and how far away it is
- Directions in one tap on a phone
- Filter by conference or region
Departments and leaders
A page for each department, kept in step with your officers.
- Director, key verse and resources on each page
- An officers page that updates with them
- News from each department
Recipes
A plant-based recipe collection for health ministry and cooking classes.
- By category, cuisine and dietary need
- Prep and cook times, serves and difficulty
- An ingredient checklist and step-by-step method
- Print or share a recipe
Also in every version
Prayer, study and contact
Prayer, Bible study and contact forms, each with its own thank-you page and an email to the right person.
News and newsletters
News by category, family notices, a newsletter archive and sign-up forms for your mailing list.
Worship online
Your livestream and recorded sermons in one place, with the next service time.
Beliefs, history and privacy
Ready pages for what you believe, your story and a plain-English privacy policy.
Easy to keep up to date
Enter your address, service times, bank details and social links once. They appear everywhere they are needed.
For churches in Europe and the UK
Ready for GDPR
Built for churches in Europe and the United Kingdom as well as Australia and New Zealand, the template is designed to help your church meet the GDPR and UK GDPR.
Privacy is built into every version: union, conference and local church.
No tracking cookies
No tracking or advertising cookies, and no analytics that follow your visitors.
Served from your own site
Fonts and scripts load from your website, not from Google or other third parties.
Maps only with consent
Google Maps stays switched off until a visitor chooses to show it.
Consent on forms
Clear consent checkboxes on contact, prayer, Bible study and sign-up forms.
Double opt-in sign-ups
Newsletter subscribers confirm by email before anything is sent to them.
Export or erase on request
Built-in tools to export or erase a person's data when they ask.
Privacy policy ready
A plain-English privacy policy page, ready for your church's details.
Your church remains responsible for how it uses the personal information it collects.
Hosting in Europe
Churches in the EU, the EEA or the UK can have their websites hosted on a server in Europe once at least four church websites will be hosted on it.
Data processing agreement
The Union signs a DPA with your church on request, including standard contractual clauses where they are needed.
Three versions
One theme, shaped for a union, a conference or a local church
Every version shares the same design and the same tested parts underneath. Each is set up around the work of that entity, with its own name, logo, colours and content, and the parts it does not need left out.
Union
For a union of conferences and missions: the full set, with every church, department and fund in one place.
- Conferences and missions, with every church in one finder
- Departments, directors and the officers page
- Union-wide events calendar with registrations
- Giving to every fund, with tithe by region
- News, publications and a newsletter archive
Conference, Mission Field, or Missions
For a conference, mission field, or mission: every congregation in the field, with its events, news and giving.
- Every church in the field on the map, with service times
- Events across the field, with registrations
- News from each congregation
- Field officers and departments
- Giving to the conference or mission funds
Built from the same parts as the Union and local church sites.
Local church
For a single congregation: a warm welcome for first-time visitors and one place for members to see what is on.
- Service times and a welcome for first-time visitors
- Weekly program and church events
- Prayer and Bible study requests
- Giving to your church
- Optional health ministry pages, such as recipes
Pricing
Built like a $15,000 website. Priced for churches.
A custom website with these features would normally cost a minimum of AUD $15,000. Because the template is built once and shared, every church can have its own for a fraction of that.
Local church
For a local church or mission
Normally from $15,000
US$1,100
USD, one-off. Includes setup, launch and training.
- Set up with your name, logo, colours and content
- Help going live, with your service times and events in place
- Training for your team to keep it up to date
Conference or union
For a conference, mission field or union
Normally from $15,000
US$1,800
USD, one-off. Includes setup, launch and training.
- Set up with your name, logo, colours and content
- Help going live, with your churches and events in place
- Training for your team to keep it up to date
Hosting and site care
Kept fast, safe and up to date
US$35 a month
USD. Add GST for Australian churches.
- Post-development support included
- Careful, manual updates, tested on a staging copy first
- Backups kept in more than one place, restored in minutes
- Firewall, malware scanning and SSL
- Vulnerability scanning and patching, powered by Patchstack
- Two-factor and passkey logins, failed logins limited and alerts sent
- Hack clean-up included, at no extra cost
- Uptime monitoring, aiming for 99.9% uptime
How it works
From first email to a live website
Three simple steps. You tell us about your church; we do the building, and stay with you after launch.
- You
Tell us about your church
Send a short email or the enquiry form below. No technical knowledge needed.
- Your church or organisation
- Where you are in the world
- What the website needs to do
- We
We set it up for you
We shape the template around your church, so it feels like yours from day one.
- Your name, logo and colours
- Churches, service times and events
- Giving funds and your existing content
- Together
Launch and look after it
We help you go live, then show your team how to keep the site fresh.
- Going live with your church
- Training for your team
- Adding events, news and pages yourselves
Ready for step one?
Start with an emailGet the template
Like what you see? Let’s build yours.
Get this website template for your church, conference or union, wherever you are in the world. Tell us a little about your church and the Media Department will reply with the next steps.
media@sdarm.org.au