WEB DESIGN - DIGITAL MINISTRY - CHURCH DATABASES - COMPUTER SERVICES
People in your community are searching for a church right now.
What they find when they look yours up — on their phone, late on a Saturday night, when something has finally moved them to look — determines whether they walk through your doors on Sunday. Secret Fire builds websites for Christian churches that open doors instead of closing them.
10+ years of experience
Serving Christian organizations exclusively
LLC registered in Pennsylvania
THE CHALLENGE EVERY CHURCH FACES
Make sure the people already searching for you can actually find you.
Most church leaders we talk to feel some tension around the word "marketing." They didn't get into ministry to promote something.
They got into it to serve people. That instinct is right.
There are people in your city who are already looking for a church home. They're searching Google, asking friends, and at some point they're going to land on your website. What they find there — whether it loads on their phone, whether your service times are easy to find, whether the site feels warm or clinical or abandoned — determines whether they set an alarm for Sunday.
A bad website doesn't just reflect poorly on your church. It closes a door that someone was already walking toward. And that's too serious a thing to leave to chance.
Most people check your website before they ever visit
A slow, outdated, or hard-to-navigate site sends them to the next church on the list — before they've heard a single sermon.
"Church near me" is one of the highest-intent searches on the internet
Someone searching those words is ready to find a church. If yours doesn't appear — or doesn't impress when it does — someone else gets that conversation.
A bad website can be the reason someone never meets Jesus
That's not hyperbole — it's the thing that keeps us up at night. Secret Fire exists because that cost is too high to ignore.
Your team spends hours managing tools instead of doing ministry
Digital platforms shouldn't be the thing stealing a pastor's Tuesday afternoon. They should run in the background so the real work can happen in the foreground.
"Marketing isn't a dirty or sinful thing. It's effectively communicating that your church has something valuable to offer — namely, saving faith in Jesus Christ and a community that will help you walk in that reality every day."
THE SECRET FIRE DIFFERENCE
Every project starts with learning your church.
Not your brand colors. Not your logo. Your church. What makes it specific to the community it serves. What draws people in. What your pastor talks about that never shows up on a generic church website but that makes your congregation who they are.
The goal is a website that makes a visitor think: this place might be home. That's a harder thing to build than a template with your logo swapped in. It's also the only thing worth building.
Tyler Thomas has spent over a decade inside church ministry. He started Secret Fire because he kept seeing excellent churches with websites that were letting their ministry down. He wanted to fix that, one church at a time.
Secret Fire works with a limited number of clients at a time — so every project receives the focused attention it deserves. If we're at capacity, we'll let you know and add you to the waitlist.
Relationship, not transaction
Every project starts with a discovery conversation — not a pricing page and a payment link. We learn your church before we build anything.
Built on Squarespace, fully custom
No templates — every site is designed from scratch for your church. Squarespace gives you a fast, modern platform with hosting, security, and updates handled for you.
Planning Center integration built in
Giving, events, groups, and connect forms connected to your PCO account — so your digital tools and your ChMS actually talk to each other.
Sermon distribution that works
Website archive, podcast feed, YouTube optimization — your pastor preaches once and the message goes everywhere automatically.
Ongoing relationship, not a handoff
Retainer plans keep your site maintained and your local SEO monitored — without you thinking about any of it.
WEBSITE PACKAGES
One question: how big is your church?
SMALL CHURCH - UNDER 150
The Spark
$2,497
5-page custom Squarespace website
Full Sermon Engine - site, podcast, YouTube
Events calendar + online giving + contact forms
Content migrated from existing site
Staff training on site updates
30-day post launch support
GROWING CHURCH - 150-600
The Flame
$3,997
12-page custom Squarespace site + blog + staff
Everything in the Spark Plan
+ Full Sermon Engine — site, podcast, YouTube
+ Church Database integration
+ Email marketing integration
+ Local SEO Setup (Google/Apple Business)
+ 90-day post-launch support
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LARGE CHURCH - 600+
The Inferno
$7,997+
Unlimited page custom Squarespace site + blog + staff
Everything in The Flame
+ Multi-campus support
+ Full church database setup, import, and integration
+ Staff email setup on your domain
+ 120-day post launch support
Begins with a paid discovery session ($497). This will credited to the final price.
THE PROCESS
How a Secret Fire project works
Five steps. Fixed price. No surprises along the way.
One
Discovery Call
Free. We learn your church — its culture, goals, existing tools, and timeline. You learn whether we're the right fit.
Two
Proposal + Scope
A fixed price, clear deliverables, and a defined timeline — sent within 48 hours of our call. No surprises.
Three
Design + Build
You review at key milestones. Tyler handles the build. Your team doesn't carry the load during the project.
Four
Launch + Training
Site goes live. Training calls happen. Post-launch support window begins. Your team knows how to use everything.
Five
Ongoing Care
Retainer or on-call support. Your site stays maintained, secure, and growing — without you thinking about it.
ABOUT TYLER
Built by someone who has lived inside church ministry.
Secret Fire was founded by Tyler Thomas and is inspired by a phrase from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings when Gandalf says, “I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Arnor.” This reference to the “Secret Fire” is the power of creation used to give life to the world and peoples of Middle-earth and is an alternate name for the Holy Spirit in Tolkien’s mythos.
Secret Fire as a business, then, has the mission of also being a “servant of the Secret Fire”. We use our God-given creativity and skills to glorify God through helping other humans beings and organizations build exceptional websites that display their skills, passions, and mission. God has gifted everyone with special abilities; let Secret Fire help you show them off to the world for His glory.
Tyler has over 10 years of experience building and managing websites for churches and other organizations. He has a B.S. in Marketing Management from Grove City College and has worked for Orchard Hill Church in Wexford, PA since 2017 managing their online presence. When Tyler isn’t working, he spends time with his family, participates in church small groups, and, of course, reads epically-long fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Start with the free checklist.
46 items across seven categories that every church website should have. Score your site in ten minutes. See exactly where to focus.
FREE DOWNLOAD
Church Website Checklist
46-item interactive checklist with a live score. See how your church's website stacks up — and what it's costing you.
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Schedule a Discovery Call
A free 30-minute conversation about your church, your goals, and whether Secret Fire is the right fit. No pitch, no pressure.