The Introit is where the Divine Service begins. For most visitors now, a parish’s website is where they begin: the service times, which door, whether they may commune. Introit gives a congregation a website that answers those questions plainly, keeps the Church Year, and can be kept up by the parish secretary on a Saturday.
See one: Trinity Evangelical-Lutheran Church, a parish that does not exist, set up the way a real one would be.
What a parish gets
- The Church Year, kept for you. The season and its colour, the name of the day, and the appointed readings from Lutheran Service Book, in the one-year or the three-year series.
- Seven pages. Home, Our Parish, Worship, Visiting, Sermons, Calendar and Ministries, in the words a Lutheran congregation actually uses.
- The questions a visitor asks. Times of service grouped as the parish keeps them, where to park and which door, and the communion practice in the parish’s own words.
- A console anyone can use. No code and nothing to break. Five named styles, each adjustable, with the parish’s own logo, so no two parishes look alike.
- Photographs and the service folder, kept with the site. Sermons are linked from YouTube or a podcast host.
- The calendar the office already keeps. Read from Google or Outlook every morning, so nothing is typed twice.
- Quiet by design. No tracking, no pop-ups, and no script on the page. It loads quickly on an old phone in the parking lot.
What it costs
$250 a year, or $25 a month.
One price, with everything included: hosting, every page, and the console. A parish’s own domain is coming, at no extra cost. Help moving from an old site is available once, by arrangement.
Not yet open
Introit is not taking parishes yet. If yours might want it when it does, or you have a question in the meantime, write to contact@hallowedgains.com. A person reads every letter.