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Church websites and Facebook pages

Why a Facebook page isn't accepted as a website — and why that doesn't stop you.

When you add a church you can give us its website. That box only accepts the church's own site — not a Facebook page, not a denominational directory entry, not a listing on someone else's site.

That's worth saying plainly, because the wording used to suggest otherwise and people gave up at that step.

Why we're fussy about it

A church's own site is the one the church controls, and it's the one that stays accurate. Social and directory pages go stale, get renamed, disappear, or belong to somebody else entirely. Once a link is on a church's page, visitors trust it — so we'd rather have no link than a wrong one.

What counts

Accepted — a domain the church runs, whatever it's built with. A small hand-made site, a church-platform site, a free site builder: all fine.

Not accepted — Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Linktree, Yelp, directory listings, and link shorteners (which hide where they actually go).

My church only uses Facebook

Very common, especially for smaller congregations and church plants. Leave the website blank. Everything else about the listing works exactly the same, and if the church sets up a site later, it can be added then.