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We build church websites the way they should be built.

Fast, affordable, and cared for month after month. Most small churches need a professional website, not a six-month website project. We built SiteCitrus to close that gap.

Who we are

One developer. One commitment.

SiteCitrus for Churches is run by Carter Blend, a developer based in Jamestown, New York who's spent years building and maintaining websites for ministries and small organizations across multiple states.

No sales team. No project managers. No handoffs. When you work with SiteCitrus, you work with the person who actually builds and maintains your site. That's the point: one relationship, direct accountability, no layers in between.

Carter Blend, founder of SiteCitrus

Carter Blend

Founder · Based in Jamestown, NY

A note from the founder

I'm Carter, the developer behind SiteCitrus. I built this because I've watched too many pastors inherit websites they didn't choose, pay $10,000+ to agencies that vanish after launch, or hand the whole thing off to a volunteer who eventually moves away.

SiteCitrus is the fix. One conversation, one professional website, and someone who keeps it running so your team doesn't have to. No platforms to learn, no invoices for tiny changes, no midnight emails to a volunteer who left two years ago.

Your job is the people. My job is the website.

Carter Blend
The approach

Agency quality. Fraction of the time.

Traditional church-website agencies charge $10,000 or more because their process is slow: meetings, revisions, project management overhead. We've built a faster process that eliminates the bloat without cutting quality.

The result is the same polished, professional website, delivered without the months-long project, at a price that respects your budget.

We move fast

From intake call to a live site quickly, not because we rush, but because we've eliminated the steps that don't serve you. Most of the timeline is your review, not our build.

Every detail is reviewed

Every word, every link, every page. Nothing goes live until it's been tested on real devices and reviewed by a human. Your site represents your church, and we treat it that way.

The relationship doesn't end at launch

Most agencies disappear after the invoice clears. We stick around. Monitoring, maintaining, and keeping your site running month after month. The monthly care is the ongoing relationship, not just hosting.

The technology

Static sites. Not static results.

Every SiteCitrus website is a static site: pre-built HTML files served from a global network of servers. No database. No server-side code. No WordPress, no Tithe.ly templates.

That means your site loads in under a second, has virtually no attack surface, costs almost nothing to host, and requires zero maintenance from your team.

<1s Load time

Pre-built pages served from edge servers worldwide

99.9% Uptime

Global CDN with automatic failover

Zero Plugins to update

No WordPress, no CMS, no dependency chain

100 PageSpeed score

Perfect Lighthouse scores out of the box

Philosophy

What we believe.

Your website shouldn't be your job.

You have a ministry to lead. Your website should work for you in the background: welcoming visitors, answering questions, looking professional, without requiring your attention.

You should always be able to leave.

No contracts. No vendor lock-in. No domain hostage situations. If you cancel, you get everything: your content, your media, your data. We earn your business every month.

One person is responsible for your site.

No account managers, no support tickets, no phone trees. Carter builds your site and Carter maintains it. When something needs attention, you know exactly who to call.

Speed matters more than features.

A fast, simple website that loads instantly beats a feature-packed site that takes 5 seconds to render. We build what works for your congregation, not what impresses other developers.

See it for yourself.

Tell us about your church and we'll show you what your website could look like. No commitment required.