A Church Website Your Congregation Actually Uses
You pastor a church, mosque, or community religious organisation in Kenya. Members ask for service times, sermon recordings, event details, and how to give. WhatsApp groups answer five but miss fifty. Tayo Host gives you a fast, simple website that handles all of it — service schedules, sermon archives, tithe collection via M-Pesa, and event RSVPs.
Why WhatsApp Groups Are Failing Your Congregation
Most Kenyan churches communicate with members via WhatsApp groups. It works for the regulars. It fails for everyone else — and "everyone else" is where growth comes from.
New attendees cannot find your service times
When someone moves to your neighbourhood and Googles "Sunday service near me", they find churches with websites. You are invisible if your service schedule lives only in a closed WhatsApp group.
Sermon recordings die in WhatsApp expiry
WhatsApp media auto-deletes after 30 days on most phones. A sermon recording from last year — gone. A website with a sermon archive keeps every message permanently, indexable, shareable, downloadable.
Tithes via Pay Bill alone leave money on the table
Members travel, members miss services, members give less when they have to remember a Pay Bill number from memory. A "Give now" button on your website with M-Pesa Express lets the offering happen in three taps from anywhere.
Event invitations lose half the audience to WhatsApp drama
WhatsApp message threads bury the prayer breakfast invite under 200 unrelated messages. A website event page with date, time, location, and an RSVP form keeps the information findable for the whole month leading up.
What a Church Website Becomes Over Time
A church website is more than a brochure. Once you launch, it accumulates value with every passing month. Every sermon you upload becomes a search-engine-findable resource that brings people to your church through Google. Every event creates a permanent URL members can revisit. Every announcement archives itself instead of disappearing into a WhatsApp scroll.
For Kenyan churches specifically, the local context matters. Your congregation pays in M-Pesa, browses on smartphones, and travels between Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and the diaspora. A website that loads fast on 4G, accepts M-Pesa tithes from anywhere, and lets the diaspora congregation watch sermons online keeps the church connected across geography.
Tayo Host WordPress Single is the right starter. Free .org or .africa domain, free SSL, daily backups, LiteSpeed Cache so sermon pages serve fast. Install a theme like ChurchPress, BBN Nirvana, or any clean WordPress theme. Add a sermon-archive plugin (free), an event calendar plugin (free), and GiveWP for M-Pesa tithes. Total monthly cost: $5.99 first year, $9 renewal. Less than the offering basket from one Sunday.
The Right Hosting for Church Websites
Based on what this audience actually needs — not a generic suggestion.
Single is exactly what most churches need: one site, free domain, free SSL, daily backups. Sermon audio files store comfortably in 5 GB NVMe (about 200 sermons at high quality). Upgrade only if you launch a denominational network.
Everything Church Websites Need on Every Plan
No upsells. No extras. These come included from day one.
Service Times & Events
A clean events calendar plugin handles weekly services, prayer meetings, conferences. Members RSVP, you see the count, planning gets easier.
Sermon Archive
Upload audio sermons (and YouTube embeds for video). Members can stream, download, or share the link. Searchable by date, speaker, or topic.
M-Pesa Tithes & Offerings
GiveWP plugin plus PesaPal lets members tithe from anywhere. KSh 100 to KSh 100,000 — same flow. Receipts auto-emailed.
Member Updates & Newsletters
Send newsletters from the site to members who opt in. Birthdays, prayer requests, member milestones.
Diaspora-Friendly
Members in London, Minneapolis, or Toronto can stream sermons, give in USD via Stripe, and stay connected. Multi-currency works on one site.
4-Language WhatsApp Support
English, Swahili, Somali, Arabic. We help non-technical pastors and admins set up the site. Real reply, real human.
How to Launch Your Church Website
Four steps. Most customers are live within an hour.
Pick the Single Plan
WordPress Single. $5.99/mo first year. Free .org or .africa domain.
Pay With M-Pesa
Treasurer or pastor pays via M-Pesa. Receipt emailed for the books.
Install WordPress + Plugins
One-click WordPress. Add a clean church theme, GiveWP for tithes, and an events calendar plugin.
Publish Service Times and Launch
Add this Sunday's service times, last sermon, upcoming events. Share the URL in your WhatsApp groups. Members start using it immediately.
Frequently Asked Questions About Church Websites Hosting
Everything you need to know before you sign up.
Get Your Church Online This Sunday
Service times, sermon archive, M-Pesa tithes — from $5.99/mo first year.
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