ChurchPress vs. ShareFaith: Media Library Toolkit or Built for You

ShareFaith is a creative toolkit for churches. Its memberships center on media: worship backgrounds, sermon graphics, bulletins, videos and kids ministry content, with a website builder available as part of certain plans. Your team designs and edits the site using a WordPress editor and draws on the media library to make it look sharp.

ChurchPress is a done-for-you website service. It builds your site from what you already have, then keeps it current through simple requests. The real question is whether your church wants a creative toolbox to build with, or wants the website itself handled.

ShareFaith's media library is the heart of its offer. Its plans advertise more than 100,000 media assets, including bulletins, backgrounds, videos, social graphics and more, along with a graphics editor. Higher tiers add kids curriculum with VBS and Pre-K lessons, a Sunday School Scheduler and worship planning. For a church that produces fresh slides, social posts and printed pieces every week, that is a lot of creative help in one membership.

On the website side, ShareFaith offers professionally designed, ministry-focused templates built on Elementor, a drag-and-drop WordPress editor, with audio and video sermon libraries, forms, prayer requests, blogs, podcasting and newsletters. Its website membership includes full access to ShareFaith Media, so your site can draw on the same visuals.

ShareFaith also offers human help. Its website page describes a migration team that will recreate content from your old site, strategists who guide you through a site-building process, and a custom design service that builds a site from the ground up. All plans include email and phone support. ShareFaith is part of the Ministry Brands family of church software.

ChurchPress does not hand you a toolkit. It starts by studying your current website for your logo, colors, photos, ministries, service times and voice, asks you to confirm the important facts, and then designs your homepage, usually in 15 to 45 minutes. One click builds the rest of the site to match, typically Plan a Visit, About and Beliefs, Ministries, Sermons, Events, Groups, Giving, Staff and Contact.

After that, there is no editor to learn and no plugins to manage. Someone on your team writes a request such as "add our fall women's Bible study to the Groups page," reviews it in a private preview, and presses Publish. One-click undo and version history keep it low risk.

The site comes with church tools built in: a sermon library with search and speaker and topic filters, events with RSVPs and a printable check-in QR code, a small-group finder, serving opportunities, staff pages and forms that arrive in a dashboard Inbox. Growth tools show visits, form submissions and sermon plays, with a weekly email summary.

Here is the comparison on the jobs churches usually care about.

When we checked ShareFaith's signup page in October 2026, the Websites plan, which includes the media library with 20 credits a month, the graphics editor and the website builder, was listed at $60 per month on monthly billing. A promotional annual rate of $48 per month, billed annually, was offered to new signups through November 1, 2026. The ShareFaith Suite, which adds kids curriculum, a mobile app and online giving, was listed at $190 per month monthly or $148 per month billed annually under the same promotion. Please confirm current pricing directly with ShareFaith.

ChurchPress charges only when you publish. Until then, you can draft, expand to a full site and keep revising at no cost, for as long as you like, without entering a card. Publishing on the Founders offer costs $97 per month or $997 per year, locked while your subscription is active, with a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first payment and no long-term contract. Managed hosting, SSL, connecting your domain, as many chat-based updates and redesigns as you need, every site tool and help from real people are all part of it. It does not include media assets, so a church that relies on a graphics library would budget for that separately.

ShareFaith is a great fit for a church with a creative volunteer or staff member who enjoys design, uses fresh graphics and videos every week, and wants a website and a media library in one membership. Churches that run a kids ministry and want ready-to-teach curriculum get even more out of it.

ChurchPress fits a church that wants the website itself taken care of. If no one on your team has hours to spend in a page editor, or your last redesign stalled halfway through, a site drafted from your current one and updated by request may be the simpler path.

These are not mutually exclusive. Some churches will keep a ShareFaith media membership for sermon slides, bulletins and social posts while using ChurchPress for the website. A good way to decide is to build a free ChurchPress preview from your current site and compare it with a ShareFaith template demo.