Church growth marketing & communications
Pretty helps.
Effective wins.
Doing your best at marketing is no longer enough. The churches that grow treat brand, content, ads, and follow-up as one connected system. We help you build and implement strategies and tools that result in church growth so the people you are called to reach actually show up, stick around, and transform.
Churches usually suck at marketing. And that's a good thing...
Marketing is not your strength because you're busy doing the actual work of ministry. Preaching. Pastoring. Making disciples. That's exactly why the Great Commission in this era demands a communications strategy as sharp as your mission. The people you're called to reach are scrolling, searching, and deciding online before they ever step through your doors. Accepting weak marketing is not an option. Getting better at it is absolutely essential.
63%
of churchgoers found their church through a digital touchpoint first.
7 sec
is all a first-time guest gives your homepage before deciding.
3x
higher first-visit rate when next steps are one tap from the ad.
1 in 4
guests never return because follow-up never happened.
Start here, free
The Church Growth
Marketing Scorecard
A blunt, 3-minute assessment that scores the real strength of your church marketing and communications: brand, content, social, advertising, email & text, next steps, and tools. You get a score, your weakest links, and the first three moves to fix it.
Yep, it's absolutely free
Only takes 3 minutes
Scored across 7 categories
Instant scorecard with action steps
GET MY SCORE→The ebook, $9.99
Kingdom Comms
The modern guide to church communications, marketing, social media, advertising and AI. Frameworks, calendars, ad structures and prompts you can run this week. Written by a pastor who also scaled businesses to half a billion in revenue.
Find out what works and what doesn't
Remote
Church Marketing & Communications Audit
A full teardown of your brand, website, social, advertising, email and text, and next-steps process, scored, prioritized, and delivered with a 90-day action plan.
- Full channel teardown
- Guest-journey walkthrough
- Prioritized 90-day plan
On-site · 2 days
Two-Day In-Person Audit
We come to you. Everything in the remote audit, plus a live weekend service visit as a first-time guest and a working consultation with your team.
- Weekend service visit
- Team consultation
- Signage & in-room comms review
Hard work + smart strategy = church growth
Ugly Monk Services
Audience & Marketing
- Content strategy & execution
- Social media advertising
- Google advertising
- New church launch marketing
- Church conference marketing
- Satellite campus launches
Brand & Digital Hubs
- Church branding
- Church rebranding
- Church App Strategy
Communication & Automation
- Internal communications strategy
- Email & text campaigns
- Automated communications workflows
- Building & fundraising campaign strategies
Systems & AI
- AI integration
- CHMS optimization
- Building marketing & communication teams
Who's behind it
Jesse LaBauve
Jesse LaBauve has spent over a decade serving on staff at some of the largest churches in the nation, as a worship pastor, creative pastor, and executive communications pastor. He's also spent a decade as a corporate marketing executive for multiple agencies based in California, helping scale businesses that drove half a billion in revenue.
Jesse's heart is to see churches grow and the Kingdom expand through no-nonsense strategies that deliver serious growth for churches and non-profits. With a bachelor's in theology and years in the corporate world, he brings a rare combination of ministry instinct and marketing rigor to every partnership.
$500M+
in revenue scaled across the businesses he helped grow.
3.5K → 6.5K
weekend attendance growth he helped drive at a large church.
Both sides
Ministry instinct plus corporate marketing rigor. Rare together.
SOLD OUT
multiple national church conferences.
BRAND + REBRAND
of 25+ churches.