Helping more people find your church — and stay.

Most churches don't have a Sunday problem. They have a Monday problem.

On Sunday, a family walks in for the first time. They're nervous, they found you somehow, and they gave you a chance.

On Monday, the card they filled out sits in a stack. Someone means to call. The week fills up.

You're not alone in this. In one study of 504 church guests who left their contact information, only 24% heard anything back within 30 days (Faith Perceptions, 2016). It isn't that churches don't care. They don't have a system that matches how much they care.

And before that family ever walks in, they've usually looked you up. If your service time is hard to find, your Google listing is wrong, or your website still advertises last Easter, some of them never come at all.

Found. Welcomed. Remembered.

No one you reach gets forgotten.

This is the part most agencies skip, and it's the part we care about most.

• Every guest gets a personal welcome, written in your church's voice and approved by your pastor before anything goes out.
• A short series of follow-ups over the next few weeks: an invitation back, a next step, a way to get connected.
• A report every two weeks: guests welcomed, replies received, guests who came back (as your team tells us).
• Email and text, always with permission. Text messages start once your church's texting registration is approved — never before — and go only to people who said yes.

We never buy lists, never upload your church directory, and never message anyone who didn't ask to hear from you.

Free Google search ads for eligible churches

Through the Google Ad Grant, eligible nonprofits can receive up to $10,000 a month in free Google search ads. When someone nearby searches for a church, service times or a family event, your church can show up.

What you should know first:

• Google decides who qualifies, and how much. We never guarantee approval or an amount, and most small churches use part of the limit.
• Service ads come with honest limits. Campaigns can include your worship services and service times. Google may limit the reach of religious-content ads, targeting stays geographic, and we report what Google actually delivered.
• Google checks IRS records. Churches are tax-exempt automatically, but many have never been listed with the IRS. If yours is covered by your denomination's group exemption, that can work too.
• The grant needs real care every month. Accounts that are left alone can be switched off. Keeping it working is our job.
• We report what matters: visit requests, calls and direction requests. Not just ad dollars.

Not sure if you qualify? Your free digital checkup includes a grant eligibility check. If the grant isn't available to you yet, we'll tell you plainly, and everything else we do still works without it.

You'll always see three things separately: our fee, your own ad budget (none required), and Google's grant credit, which is Google's and never ours.

What a week with Starheart looks like

Your pastor approves everything. Nothing goes out without your OK.

Simple plans. Prices shown. No contract.

Add-ons

• Google Ad Grants management: eligibility pre-screen, application, account and campaign build, ongoing management, biweekly reporting, quarterly grant strategy review. See the pricing table below. Application Help only: $279 one-time (no account build or management).
• Seasonal campaign: $299 per campaign — a focused push for Easter, Christmas or a special event, with promotion and guest follow-up.
• Online giving setup: $199 one-time — set up giving on your church-owned account, QR codes, text-to-give, recurring giving, and a website Give button. Donations go directly to your church; Starheart never handles them.
• Another language (for example, Spanish): $129/mo per language, with posts, newsletter, website and follow-up reviewed by a native speaker.

Good to know

• Month to month. Plans are month to month — no contract, no commitment. Cancel anytime — a text, a call or your client portal is enough.
• New clients: 20% off your first 90 days — the full price is stated on your agreement from day one, and it doesn't stack with annual prepay's two months free.
• Founding Partner pricing — our first 20 partners lock their rate for two years. Start as one of our first 20 partners and your starting rate stays yours for a full 24 months, even when standard prices rise. After 24 months your rate moves to the then-current price, with 60 days' notice. The lock is our promise to keep — you can still leave anytime.
• Pay yearly and get two months free: Found $2,790/yr · Found & Followed $4,790/yr · Full Service $6,490/yr.
• You own every account: your website, your Google listing, your ad account, your social pages. We just run them.
• If your website needs work before Google will approve the grant, we quote that as its own line, so you always see exactly what you're paying for.
• Getting started asks little of you: one short onboarding call (about 15 minutes) and a few yes/no answers. We set up your website, hosting and email, podcast feed, social accounts, follow-up system and texting registration, and write your 90-day plan.
• A human when you need one: support is by email or phone or text — one number, not a ticket queue.

Taking this to your board or treasurer? Download the one-page overview (PDF) — every plan, every price and the grant module on a single page.

Start with a free digital checkup

In about an hour, we look at five things and send you the findings in writing:

1. Your website. What a first-time guest sees on their phone — including whether your service times are findable in seconds, and a plan-your-visit / what-to-expect check: could a first-timer quickly tell when to arrive, where to park, what happens with their kids, and how long the service lasts?
2. Being found locally. Your Google listing and how you show up for "church near me."
3. Free Google ads. Whether your church qualifies for the Google Ad Grant today, and if not, the path.
4. Your follow-up. What happens after a guest fills out a card.
5. Your giving. Whether someone can give online in one tap, by QR code, by text, or on a recurring basis.

You'll get three things you can fix this week, for free, without us. If you'd like help with the rest, we'll tell you which plan fits. If not, the report is still yours.

Reaching your whole community, in their language

If there are Spanish speakers in your neighborhood, we can publish your posts, newsletter, website pages and guest follow-ups in Spanish too. A native speaker reviews everything, and you always see the English version alongside it.

Who's behind Starheart

Starheart is a specialist team — web designers, developers, online marketers, and media producers — coordinated under one roof around a single job: helping churches and nonprofits get found, and helping the people who find them stay. Each piece of the work goes to the expert who does it best, while you deal with one partner, one plan, and one report.

Starheart was founded by Shannon Dowell, whose background spans IT, graphic design, web development, and online marketing — and who grew up in ministry, in a family that has traveled the gospel trail for generations. Through his other company, Eagle International Tents and Air Domes, he has served churches and ministries for about 30 years. That combination is the point of Starheart: professional digital craft, put to work for the mission.

Our promise: we'll never invent results, testimonials, or numbers. As we serve churches, we'll share real stories, with their permission.

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Let's make sure your church is easy to find, and easy to come back to.

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