Broadcast-grade craft.
Built for the local church.

A broadcast-trained crew designs for live, high-stakes, single-take execution — the Sunday morning stream that has to work the first time, the capital campaign film that's the centerpiece of a six-month appeal, the Easter production where everything is happening at once. Most church-focused marketing agencies are built on the social-ad and content-production playbook. We're built on broadcast. That difference shows up in every frame.

Both, with calibrated strategy. For plants: pre-launch awareness, launch team recruitment ads, grand opening campaigns, and the first 90 days of weekly visitor flow. For established churches: recurring Plan Your Visit campaigns, sermon series promotion, community event outreach, and the slow-build content engine that keeps families connected.

We won't try to sell a $3,000/month marketing program to a congregation of 100. We scope and price based on what you actually need.

Google's Nonprofit Ad Grants program gives eligible 501(c)(3) organizations up to $10,000 per month in free Google Ads credits. Churches apply through Google for Nonprofits. The grant covers text-based search ads — not display or YouTube — and most churches that qualify either never applied, lost it to non-compliance, or are running it so poorly it burns out without producing visitors. We handle the full lifecycle so the budget produces results.

Sermonix is the AI product we built specifically for the church planter's week — eight Slack-native tools for sermon prep, sermon-to-social, weekly newsletter, guest follow-up, devotionals, small group guides, image generation, and open-ended conversation. It's $49 per seat per month, with the first three months free during the beta. Sermonix works whether or not you engage Sidestreet for marketing services. For Sidestreet church clients, Sermonix accelerates the work we already do together.

Yes, across the country. Our work is delivered remote-first where it can be (marketing, web, strategy, ongoing content production) and on-site where it needs to be (AV installs, training, key events). We've worked with churches across the Southeast and have remote engagements in Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and beyond.

Yes. For denominational shifts — a congregation changing affiliation, leaving a denomination, or navigating a doctrinal disagreement that becomes public — we manage internal and external communications across the full timeline. These situations require both communications expertise and respect for the theological and relational weight involved. For pastoral transitions, retirements, or appointments, we manage the announcement sequence so the congregation, community, and press receive the news in the right way at the right time.

The conversation usually starts with one specific need — Sunday streaming that keeps failing, a website that needs a rebuild, a marketing budget that hasn't moved the needle, an upcoming Easter or Christmas production. From there we scope what we'd actually recommend, in writing, and you decide. Many engagements grow over time into broader extended-staff retainers because the same senior team is already handling pieces across your communications stack. Others stay project-shaped. Both work.