Portfolio/Nonprofit & Ministry

Speaking Louder

Fourteen years of concerts, home rebuilds, clinics, and orphan care across eight nations. The ministry’s old site listed the programs without ever showing the work. This is the site their staff run now.

// the brief

Speaking Louder Ministries was founded in 2012 by Jeremy and Adie Camp, and works on two tracks: hope, meaning evangelism through music and the arts, and help, meaning mercy work. Concerts drawing tens of thousands, houses rebuilt, medical clinics, orphan care. Almost none of it reached the website.

// what we built

Eleven pages, each one its own form in the admin rather than a blank block builder, so an edit cannot break a layout. A page per nation, each also a pin on the map. A finances page their director can attach documents to as they clear. Giving still runs through the processor they already used, so nothing about their books changed.

// the stack

An open-source content management system on a modern web framework, with managed Postgres and image hosting. Content changes are live in seconds. Traffic reports render inside the same admin they edit in, so nobody needs a second login to see how a campaign did.

// what changed for them

Messages from the contact form used to route to an address nobody checked, so real inquiries went unread for months. They now land in an inbox staff pick themselves, from a field in the admin. The old site was on a hosted page builder; this one they own.

  • Open-source CMS
  • Self-managed
  • Online giving
  • Financial transparency
  • Interactive map
  • Analytics in the admin
  • SEO
// before and after
The Speaking Louder homepage, the site we built
The Speaking Louder homepage, the Squarespace site it replaced
BeforeAfter
The old homepage opened on a photograph of a microphone and a line of type. The new one opens on Jeremy Camp in front of a crowd, from the ministry’s own photo library, with one clear way to give.
// the rest of it3 views
Each nation gets its own page: the story of the work there, the ministry’s photographs of it, and the film when there is one.
A financial transparency page, built after their director sent over the one he wanted it to work like. Documents attach in the admin as they are approved.
Messages from this form used to go to a forwarding address nobody read. They now land in an inbox staff choose themselves, changed from a field in the admin.
// next

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