R. M. BurgessClient-owned system
First Filipino Baptist Church
A hospitality-first church website that welcomes before it informs — bilingual English and Tagalog, staff tools without WordPress, on the church’s own domain.
The challenge
The congregation needed to move off legacy ChurchTrac Connect: weak mobile experience, limited local SEO, login-gated giving, no bilingual UI, and no staff-friendly way to rotate heroes or edit the calendar.
Website design, build, and platform operations by R. M. Burgess — owned and led by First Filipino Baptist Church.
Capabilities
Features
Plan Your Visit and Watch Live lead the experience; staff keep content fresh without deploying code.
Hospitality-first IA
Plan Your Visit and Watch Live above the fold. “Sunday morning light” design with real congregation photography.
English + Tagalog
UI chrome, schedules, calendar, and forms toggle between English and simple Tagalog for a Filipino Baptist congregation.
Events & “Next up”
Campus services, home cell groups, and CMS-managed specials. A smart ribbon always shows the next gathering in US Eastern time.
Staff admin CMS
Invite-only email OTP. Rotate hero galleries with focal-point control, edit bilingual calendars, and manage operators.
Give & contact
Stripe Payment Link giving without member login. Contact and prayer form with Turnstile protection and branded email to the church inbox.
Local SEO & security
Church and FAQ structured data, sitemap, GBP checklist. CSP nonces, RLS, rate limits, and OWASP assessment on the live domain.
What shipped
- Public site: home, visit, about, belief, God’s Gift, watch, events, give, contact
- ChurchTrac content parity with a clearer information architecture
- Admin: photos, calendar, users — passwordless staff login only
- Live on www.ffbcjax.com (apex redirects to www)
Delivery
Stack & trust
Custom Next.js site on the church’s domain — not a WordPress theme and not a shared multi-tenant SaaS.
Visit the live church site
First Filipino Baptist Church — Mandarin, Jacksonville.