Building the Digital Infrastructure Behind a Growing Ministry
How 323 Solutions helped Risen Savior's Lakewood Ranch campus improve discoverability, digital experience, communications, operations, and growth support.
Our partnership with Risen Savior began in 2023 with a new digital front door. Since then, the relationship has grown into a broader digital partnership supporting communications, ministry systems, outreach, and continued growth across the church and school.
Five Transformations
What began as a digital front door project grew into a broader partnership supporting how Risen Savior is discovered, experienced, communicated, operated, and positioned for growth.
Discoverability
Strengthening the ways people find Risen Savior through organic search, local search, and Google.
- Search engine optimization
- Local SEO support
- Google visibility
- Search performance monitoring
Digital Experience
Rebuilding the church's digital front door around clearer journeys for visitors, members, families, and prospective school families.
- Website redesign
- Improved information architecture
- Clearer visitor pathways
- Church + school integration
Communications
Creating a more consistent digital communication ecosystem across email, social media, ministry programs, and major initiatives.
- Email communications
- Social media engagement
- Ministry messaging
- Campaign and project updates
Operations
Supporting the systems behind ministry so staff and leaders have better tools for collaboration, administration, and member support.
- Google Workspace for Nonprofits
- Cloud storage support
- Breeze people directory
- Giving, forms, and pledge management
Growth
Supporting new ministry opportunities, expansion initiatives, and the digital infrastructure needed as Risen Savior continues to grow.
- Capital campaign communications
- Mornings with Mommy infrastructure
- Livestream support
- Ongoing digital strategy
From Then to Now
Risen Savior's website evolved from a traditional church website into a clearer, more welcoming digital front door built around how visitors, members, and families actually engage with the ministry.
The Starting Point
The previous website served as a functional source of church information, but its structure and presentation made it more difficult for new visitors to quickly understand Risen Savior and find their next step.
- Older visual design and page structure
- Important information required more searching
- Limited distinction between visitor journeys
- Less emphasis on clear next steps and engagement
A Modern Digital Front Door
Today's experience puts the visitor first, creating clearer paths to worship, the school, ministries, giving, sermons, and ways to become involved.
- Modern, welcoming visual experience
- Clearer navigation and audience pathways
- Stronger connection between church and school
- More obvious next steps for visitors and members
The redesign wasn't simply about changing how Risen Savior looked. It changed how people move from finding the ministry to understanding it to taking a next step.
A Stronger Digital Foundation for a Growing Ministry
Risen Savior's digital transformation has taken place during a period of significant ministry growth. As more people connected with the church and school, the systems supporting discovery, communication, participation, and administration needed to grow alongside it.
323 Solutions didn't create Risen Savior's growth. Our role has been to help ensure its digital infrastructure can keep up with it.
Risen Savior Was Growing
WELS congregational reporting shows substantial growth in membership and participation leading into and throughout the 323 partnership.
Membership more than doubled between 2022 and 2025.
The number of communicant members grew alongside overall congregational membership.
Average weekly in-person worship attendance increased substantially over the same period.
Weekly Bible study participation grew from 65 people to 112.
Growth extended beyond membership and attendance.
The Digital Foundation Improved Too
Search, analytics, and local visibility data provide measurable evidence that the digital ecosystem supporting the ministry has become stronger.
Average Search Position
Average organic position improved by more than ten positions, moving from approximately page two to page one.
Organic Click-Through Rate
People seeing Risen Savior in Google results became more likely to continue through to the website.
Annual Website Sessions
Website sessions increased year over year while active users grew from 8,368 to 8,978.
Local Discovery Impressions
Risen Savior appeared more than 3,100 times across Google Search and Maps during the latest 88-day reporting period.
Searching for “Church Lakewood Ranch”
Organic clicks for this core local search increased from 20 to 51 year over year while maintaining an average Google position near #2.
Growth Creates Complexity.
Infrastructure Helps Manage It.
More members, more visitors, more programs, more communication, more giving, and more ministry activity create additional digital demands. 323's role has been to help Risen Savior build and maintain the systems that make those interactions easier to manage and easier for people to navigate.
What 323 Helped Build
What began as a website project developed into a connected digital ecosystem supporting discovery, communication, ministry operations, giving, programs, and continued growth.
The goal wasn't to add technology for technology's sake. It was to create clearer connections between the systems Risen Savior already depended on and the people those systems were designed to serve.
Search &
Local Visibility
SEO, local SEO, and Google visibility help people discover Risen Savior when they're actively searching.
Digital
Front Door
The website turns discovery into understanding with clearer paths for worship, school, ministries, and next steps.
Email &
Communications
Email, social media, and ministry messaging keep people informed and connected beyond the website.
Breeze &
Ministry Systems
Breeze supports the people directory, giving, forms, and capital campaign pledge management.
Participation &
Ministry
Giving, forms, registrations, livestreams, and outreach programs turn digital interaction into ministry participation.
Infrastructure That Supports the Ministry
Some of the most important work happens behind the scenes. 323 has helped establish and support the technology foundation Risen Savior's staff and ministry leaders use every day.
Google Workspace
Nonprofit workspace setup, accounts, collaboration, shared resources, and organizational access.
Cloud Storage
Shared files and digital resources organized around staff and ministry needs.
Ministry Systems Support
Ongoing support connecting tools, workflows, registrations, and ministry operations.
Livestream Support
Technology and digital support helping worship remain accessible beyond the physical campus.
The result is not a collection of disconnected tools. It is a digital foundation designed to help people move from discovery to connection to participation.
A Faithful Path Forward
The work with Risen Savior has never been about completing one website project and moving on. It has been about supporting a growing ministry as its digital needs continue to evolve.
Since 2023, 323 Solutions has worked alongside Risen Savior to strengthen the systems behind how people discover the ministry, communicate with staff, participate in programs, give, watch worship, and stay connected.
As the church and school have grown, new needs have followed. New ministries, expanded communications, capital campaign activity, technology requirements, and growing audiences have all required the digital environment to mature alongside the organization.
That ongoing relationship is the real story of the partnership: not a single project, but a digital foundation that can continue adapting as the ministry changes.
Listen
Understand the ministry need before recommending the technology.
Build
Create practical digital systems that fit how staff and ministry leaders actually work.
Measure
Use real data to understand what is working and where opportunities remain.
Adapt
Continue improving the digital foundation as the ministry grows.
Your Digital Front Door Should Grow With Your Ministry.
323 Solutions helps churches, schools, and mission-driven organizations connect their website, communications, data, and ministry systems into a digital foundation built for what comes next.