AgapeWeave is an online social network, similar to Facebook or MySpace designed specifically with the needs of the church in mind.  Think of AgapeWeave as your church’s own small social network.  A place you can share information like never before.  Our goal in the development of AgapeWeave is to give churches a comprehensive way to connect within and throughout their communities.  To bring church back to the masses by informing the public on what the church is today.

Church is not just a place you go on Sunday mornings.  It’s a community vital to our personal faith.  A community which shapes who we are and which is desperate to change the world.  Desperate to share God’s love and forge a new beginning.  Not the church of yesterday, but the church of today and the future.  Our goal is not to develop something that will increase isolation from the church.  We do not intend on losing that face to face interaction which makes us the Church.  AgapeWeave is designed from the ground up to be a tool to enable church leaders and congregation members alike to reach out to each other and into our communities.  To put the face of the Church back into a good light in the world.

Grace and Peace,

The Burning Bush Web Design Team

A special thank you to everyone who came out to our first “Ignite: Social Networking for Churches Seminar” this past Sunday at Colonial Heights UMC in Kingsport.  We’re very pleased with the interest and attendance and I’m proud to announce the winner of our missions drawing…

And the winner is…..

St. Lukes UMC Kingsport!

St. Lukes will receive a small financial contribution for it’s missions account in appreciation!  At Burning Bush Web Design, we strongly believe in supporting our communities.  Sign up for our newsletter for a chance to win quarterly drawings for your church or business!

Our websites feature tools designed specifically for business, including:

A Simple CMS

A content management system gives our product the capability to create, locate, and edit information on specific parts of the website. It also gives website owners flexibility to create a dynamic environment of information. A CMS also creates a unique user interface for visitors to access information important to them. CMS also provides user privileges so certain users can edit and access certain parts of the website while others can not.

Event Calendar

It’s never been easier to keep your cusomters up-to-date as we use Google Calendar to plug into Ignite CMS to give you a simple way to update your events and deals. Better yet, you can easily manage your events using at PC or Mac including Outlook and iCal!

Domain Email

Depending on the plan, you can have 3-50+ domain email addresses giving your business a professional touch. All email systems in our plans are run on the Gmail system by Google so you can trust the dependability and reliability of our email system. Each email address also includes other Google Apps such as Docs, Calendar, and Talk.

Social Network Integration

As more people connect through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, it makes sense that by our web product connecting to these sites, it gives you a larger audience and a closer connection to your members or customers. Currently supported social networks: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Picasa Albums, Flickr, LinkedIn, and Vimeo.

Email Campaigns

Automatic email campaigns can be set so that when certain categories of posts on your website are created, an automatic email including the new content will go out to your subscribers at a certain time of day. Email campaigns can also be created separately and designed for special events or campaigns. All email campaigns include basic statistics and comply with all US spam email laws.

Customer Management

We also offer setup of CRM systems and integrate features into your website so it’s simple and easy to keep up with your current and past customers, while giving you the tools needed to follow leads and encourage them to become paying customers.

eCommerce

Our eCommerce system plugs straight in to our Ignite CMS, allowing you to easily manage an online store where PayPal, Google Checkout, and Authorize.net payment systems are integrated.  The eCommerce system also plugs into your customer management system and gives you features to easily add products and services, calculate sales tax, and shipping costs all while seamlessly integrating into your website.

Analytics

Using Google Analytics, you get detailed statistics on which products or services clients seem most interested in, helping you make smarter business decisions.  Analytics not only plug into your normal content on the website but integrate into your email campaigns and the eCommerce module.  You’ll also have the option of receiving reports via email in .pdf, .csv, and .xls formats.

Like what you hear?

Feel free to sign-up for your non-commitment free quote!

Also, check out some of our current clients!

Our websites feature tools designed specifically for churches, including:

A Simple CMS

A content management system gives our product the capability to create, locate, and edit information on specific parts of the website. It also gives website owners flexibility to create a dynamic environment of information. A CMS also creates a unique user interface for visitors to access information important to them. CMS also provides user privileges so certain users can edit and access certain parts of the website while others can not.

Sermon Podcasting

Podcasting is included in our Blaze plan and can be purchased as an add-on, giving your organization the opportunity to cheaply syndicate sermons, videos, and other content to many devices including desktop computers and mobile devices such as the iPod or iPhone. This allows subscribers to hear and see the latest news from your organization and take it with them.

Event Calendar

It’s never been easier to keep your congregation and community up-to-date as we use Google Calendar to plug into Ignite CMS to give you a simple way to update your events.  Better yet, you can easily manage your events using at PC or Mac including Outlook and iCal!

Domain Email

Depending on the plan, you can have 3-50+ domain email addresses giving your organization a professional touch. All email systems in our plans are run on the Gmail system by Google so you can trust the dependability and reliability of our email system. Each email address also includes other Google Apps such as Docs, Calendar, and Talk.

Social Network Integration

As more people connect through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, it makes sense that by our web product connecting to these sites, it gives you a larger audience and a closer connection to your members or customers. Currently supported social networks: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Picasa Albums, Flickr, LinkedIn, and Vimeo.

Email Campaigns

Automatic email campaigns can be set so that when certain categories of posts on your website are created, an automatic email including the new content will go out to your subscribers at a certain time of day. Email campaigns can also be created separately and designed for special events or campaigns. All email campaigns include basic statistics and comply with all US spam email laws.

Getting Involved

Easily accessible are tools to get your congregation involved such as sending email invites to friends and family to attend church to sending an RSVP for events such as a Wonderful Wednesday meal.  You can even create forms to signup for bible studies, volunteering, mission work, etc.  The possibilities are endless!  We’re currently looking into more ways to use your website to engage your congregation and community so look forward to additional offerings in the future.

Online Giving/Tithing

Although a relatively new idea, we offer integration with your website to allow congregation members to tithe online and even set up monthly payment plans, view their giving statements, and change their billing information all from your secure website!

Like what you hear?  Feel free to sign-up for your non-commitment free quote or check out some of our current clients!

Our websites are built to be “future-proof” as our CMS is designed to be compatiable and easily upgradable.  As we use some of the most popular CMS engines out there, updates will be coming for a long time to come.  Burning Bush websites are also designed to be as HTML compatible as possible with all of the popular browsers on PC, Mac, and Linux as well as offer mobile and iPhone optimized versions to ensure compatibility.  All data is also exportable to .xml and .csv format, so you can rest assured that you’ll never have to “rewrite” your website ever again!

Churches

We’ve been involved in many areas of the church for years, from leadership to congregation member so we understand that the key of showing the love of Christ and exciting people to grow in their faith starts at a basic foundation, building personal relationships.

Think of our websites as a way to introduce prospective members and your community to your church or organization.  A criticism of online communication is that it allows people to connect while “hiding” behind the computer screen.  We counter this by using our websites as a tool to bring people into face-to-face relationships.  Our websites are designed to be inviting and connect people through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, personal email updates, even features that allow members to easily invite visitors to your church!

Businesses

As a small business, we understand that the key to building your business is to build relationships with your customers and reach out to your community.  Our websites offer social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter integration, automatic email updates (i.e. specials, deals, sales, products, etc) that make it simple for you to market to and inform your current customers.

Ignite is built with the idea to protect your website from all of those “uh-oh” moments and SSL security to keep your data safe and secure.

Peace of Mind

You can never have enough backups!  Our websites have multiple redundant backups of your web content on-site and off-site to ensure if anything ever goes wrong, we can restore you website in a matter of minutes, not days.

Security

Our websites feature SSL security and good security practices to keep your data safe and secure from harm.  Our email systems also provide top-notch “spam” protection to keep all that junk mail and measures to keep any virus infected mail away.

The Ignite system has been created with you in mind.  Whether you’re a computer guru or you barely know how to check your email, you’ll be able to login and easily manage your website and content.  Editing your website is about as easy as using Facebook or sending an email.  Ignite includes a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor which makes it simple for non-technical users.

Know some HTML or are you an advanced user?  Ignite also includes an HTML editor along with the WYSIWYG so the possibilities are endless!

At Burning Bush, we understand the key to the growth of your organization is excitement by both members/customers and your community.  We give you the tools to communicate effectively and provide users with the capability to share and spread the word.

• We use a CMS (content management system) based on WordPress called “Ignite” which is designed with SEO (search engine optimization) which enables search engines to find our organization faster by listing you higher on search results which in turn makes it simple and easy for your community to find your website.
• Ignite integrates social networking which helps you connect to members and your community via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Vimeo.
• Our websites offer ways to keep your community informed and involved through RSS newsfeeds and Email marketing.

Most churches, businesses, and organizations make decisions on a new website based on a vote by committee/board or decision from the Pastor or CEO.  Need a presentation to get us approved?  We’ll create a presentation at your request and present it to your committee or leader at no cost and no obligation to you.  The average presentation lasts 15-20 minutes and includes powerpoint & take home handouts.  If interested, please feel out the form on the pricing page and select YES on “Do you need a presentation prior to sale?”

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Depending on the plan, you can have 3-50+ domain email addresses giving your organization a professional touch.  All email systems in our plans are run on the Gmail system by Google so you can trust the dependability and reliability of our email system.  Each email address also includes other Google Apps such as Docs, Calendar, and Talk.

More Elements…

As more people connect through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, it makes sense that by our web product connecting to these sites, it gives you a larger audience and a closer connection to your members or customers.  Currently supported social networks: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Picasa Albums, Flickr, LinkedIn, and Vimeo.

More Elements…

Podcasting is included in our Blaze plan and can be purchased as an add-on, giving your organization the opportunity to cheaply syndicate sermons, videos, and other content to many devices including desktop computers and mobile devices such as the iPod or iPhone.  This allows subscribers to hear and see the latest news from your organization and take it with them.

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Feel secure knowing that all data is secured by trusted hosting providers using state-of-the art security features including firewalls and anti-virus protection to protect your files on the servers.  Your data is also backed up on multiple redundant servers on-site and remotely so that your website can be restored within minutes.

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Automatic email campaigns can be set so that when certain categories of posts on your website are created, an automatic email including the new content will go out to your subscribers at a certain time of day.  Email campaigns can also be created separately and designed for special events or campaigns.  All email campaigns include basic statistics and comply with all US spam email laws.

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