The public-facing surfaces
where the community meets your church.
A beautiful, branded public profile that prospective members find. Embeddable widgets that put giving, livestreaming, and events on your existing website. Compliant raffle infrastructure for fundraising drives. The three ways your church reaches the community beyond the four walls — built together.
The boundary between “at the church” and “in the community”
Every church has a wall.
These are the doors in it.
Most of a church's software is built for the people already inside the church — the staff, the volunteers, the members. Service plans, attendance reports, pastoral notes, ministry rosters — these all assume the person interacting with them is already part of the body. But every healthy church also has surfaces facing the other direction: out toward the people who aren't there yet, who've never visited, who Google “churches near me” on a Saturday night and decide whether to show up Sunday based on what they find.
The Public Profile, embeddable Widgets, and Raffle infrastructure are the three ways your church reaches outward. The public profile is the page on TrueConnect+ where prospective members find you — discoverable, shareable, and rich enough to actually help them decide. The widgets are the way you put your giving page, livestream player, sermon library, and event registrations on your existing church website — so the church website you've already invested in stays in front of visitors while the platform does the work behind it. Raffles are the fundraising mechanism that brings community members into the building for a specific cause — a youth missions trip, a building campaign push, a community-need response — with built-in compliance for the state-by-state rules raffles actually have to follow.
These three live together because they share a job: reaching the community outside the four walls. The profile is the inbound funnel. The widgets are the way your existing online presence does double duty. The raffles are an outreach mechanism that brings new people into a moment of shared cause. Three surfaces, one purpose.
A church page that does the work a brochure can't.
Every TrueConnect+ church gets a public profile page — a real, modern, mobile-first page that lives at a clean URL and represents your church to the outside world. The profile shows who you are: service times, location, denominational affiliation, what to expect on a first visit, your senior leadership, the ministries you run, the most recent sermon. Prospective members reach this page from a search, from a member sharing the link, or from finding you on Discover — and they leave with enough information to actually decide.
Everything on the profile is editable from the church's admin — no developer, no website project. Update service times, swap the hero photo, write a new welcome message, add a staff member. The page reflects who your church is now, not who it was three years ago when the website was last redesigned.
- Branded, mobile-first public church page at a clean URL
- Service times, location, denomination, welcome message — all editable by staff
- Latest sermons, upcoming events, and ministries pulled in automatically
- Discoverable through TrueConnect+ Discover for members exploring other churches
Your existing church website. Powered by what's underneath.
Most churches already have a website — a WordPress site, a Squarespace site, a custom one a volunteer built. That site has years of SEO, members know the URL, and replacing it isn't on the table. Embeddable widgets keep your existing website in place while putting the live data from TrueConnect+ inside it.
Drop a one-line embed into your website's HTML and your livestream player, giving widget, sermon library, or events feed lives there — branded to match your site, reading from the same data as your TrueConnect+ admin, and updating in real time. Origin allowlists let you control which domains can embed each widget so a competitor can't lift your giving page onto their site.
- One-line embed for giving, livestream, sermon library, and event feed
- Branded to match your existing site
- Real-time data — embeds reflect the live state of your platform
- Origin allowlists per widget — your CSP, your control
The fundraising mechanism that's easier to run wrong than right.
Raffles are one of the highest-engagement fundraising mechanisms a church can run — a $20 ticket for a chance at a grand prize draws community members who'd never give cold. But raffles are also one of the most regulated forms of fundraising, with rules that vary state by state: who can buy a ticket, who can run the raffle, where the proceeds must go, what records must be kept, what disclosures must be displayed.
The Raffle infrastructure handles the compliance heavy lift. Configure the prize and the ticket price, set the draw date, define the eligibility rules — and the system generates the state-required disclosures, captures the participant information your state requires, logs every ticket sold with a timestamp and a unique ID, and runs the draw with a verifiable random number generator and an audit log. Winners are notified automatically. The compliance log exports for your records.
- Configure prize, ticket price, draw date, and eligibility rules per raffle
- State-required disclosures generated and displayed at purchase
- Verifiable random draw with audit log
- Winner notification and full compliance log export
The mechanics that make the surfaces actually work
Beneath the public face.
SEO-ready public profile
Structured data markup (Schema.org Organization, LocalBusiness, Event), Open Graph for social shares, semantic HTML, and fast page loads. Your profile is found by the people searching for you — and looks good when shared.
Member-side Discover listing
Members exploring other churches via Discover find your profile through category, location, and denomination filters. Your profile is both your public page and your Discover listing — one record serving both purposes.
Adaptive widget sizing
Widgets adapt their dimensions to the container they're embedded in. The same livestream embed works on a 1200px content area and a 600px sidebar. No frame sizing math, no broken layouts.
Click and scan attribution
Every visit to your public profile, every embed view, every QR scan that lands on a public surface is logged. The marketing report shows what the outside world is interacting with — and what's converting to first-time visits and gifts.
Multi-prize raffles
Configure a primary prize plus runner-up prizes, with the system handling the draw cascade automatically — pull the grand prize first, then second, then third, with each draw recorded separately in the compliance log.
Three surfaces, one platform
Your public profile pulls from the same data as your widgets, which pull from the same data as your members' experience. You manage one platform; the community experiences a coherent church across every surface they touch.
How a stranger becomes a visitor becomes a member.
A family is moving to a new city in three months. The dad searches “Baptist churches in Charlotte” on a Saturday night and lands on your church's public profile. He sees the service times, the current sermon series, your senior pastor's welcome video, and the kids ministry page that shows the rooms are clean and well-staffed. He sends the link to his wife. They watch last Sunday's livestream from the embedded player on your existing church website that night.
Two months later, they're newly settled in town. They visit. They fill out the welcome card. The follow-up workflow fires. By month four, they've joined a small group, the kids are registered for kids ministry, and they've given their first online gift. By month eight, they buy ten raffle tickets in your youth missions fundraiser because the cause resonates — and the experience is so smooth that they bring two coworkers to the raffle drawing event.
The journey from stranger to member ran across three surfaces. The profile pulled them in. The embedded livestream let them sample. The raffle gave them a low-stakes way to show up in person for a cause. Each one is a door. The platform built the doors.