A front door for Ceres SDA

Church board · Monday, November 16, 2026 · Shane Hilde

Today

Proposed

Why now

Our real week isn’t on our website

Working well: bulletins and sermons go up every week. But a visitor can’t see what happens here.

ceresadventist.org · Calendar · November 2026

November 2026 calendar on the current site

No Sabbath services or prayer meetings listed. Weekly events stop after mid-June 2026.

Unfinished home page. The hero image is still a placeholder file, and the logo is the default one.

Missing: prayer line, text-JOIN number, office secretary, pastor & staff, a plan-a-visit page.

One email address is missing “.net”

Security: a post titled “Your records and a summons on file” (Sept 28) sits on our public calendar — very likely phishing.

First, credit where it's due: bulletins and sermons are posted every single week. That's faithful work, and the people doing it should hear thank you.

But the website's calendar tells a visitor we have no services. Recurring events stop after mid-June: the last worship entry is June 6, the last Sabbath School June 13. November shows only the food bank and sunset times.

The home page still uses a placeholder hero image (the file is literally named slider-placeholder2.jpg) and the default Adventist Connect logo. The prayer line, text-JOIN number, secretary, and a pastor or staff page aren't on the site. One contact block prints the email without ".net".

And gently: there is a post on our public calendar dated September 28 titled "Your records and a summons on file." It asks readers to confirm record details and links off-site. It isn't a church event; it looks like phishing. This isn't anyone's fault. It's what happens to busy volunteer-run WordPress sites. It should come down this week whatever we decide tonight, and it's one more reason for a simpler, locked-down site.

Sources: ceresadventist.org home page and calendar, viewed Nov 9, 2026.

Who it’s for · 1

First-time visitors,
on a phone

“When is church?”

“Where is it?”

“What will it be like?”

“Can I watch online?”

Who it’s for · 2

Members checking
the week

“What’s on this week?”

“Who’s speaking Sabbath?”

“When’s the potluck?”

“How do I give online?”

Today, most of these answers live inside a PDF bulletin.

The new site

Phone-first pages, in our colors

Home · on a laptop

Plan a Visit

This Week

HomePlan a VisitThis WeekSermonsMinistriesRentGivePrayContact

Live demo

“I’m new — when is church?”

From the home page to times & directions in two taps.

Open in a new tab

Sample photo

Saturday, 8:40 a.m.

A first-time guest finds us

1 · Searches “church near me”

2 · Sees 9:30 & 11:00

3 · What to expect

4 · Taps directions

5 · Optional hello

1633 Central Ave · Sabbath School 9:30 a.m. · Worship 11:00 a.m.

Nothing starts from zero

Built on what already works

The mobile bulletin

Phone-first since October 2026. Its design and weekly content carry straight over.

309

videos on YouTube

@ceresadventist · 603 subscribers

Our A-frame logo

Replacing the default logo, in our slate blue and cream.

The part that matters most

It updates itself

The bulletin is written once a week, as today. The site follows.

Weekly bulletin

Publish

one step,
once a week

Home · This Sabbath

This Week

Calendar

Nobody hand-updates the website.

A new page on the site

Book a room without calling the office

ceresadventist.org/rent

Book 24/7. See the Sanctuary, Fireside Room, and Fellowship Hall whenever it's convenient.

No double-booking ministries. Sabbath services, Pathfinders, prayer meeting, choir, potlucks, and the Christmas program are already blocked.

Less office phone tag. A request lands with a price estimate. A deposit could be taken online later, after the office confirms.

Online giving

Give in three taps

Choose Tithe, Offering, or Building Fund · pick an amount · Give. Live gifts would go through AdventistGiving, the NAD’s free platform.

1 · Choose a fund

2 · Choose an amount

3 · “Returned tithe — thank you”

Care for one another

A private place to ask for prayer

Name is optional. They write the request in their own words.

They choose: share with the prayer team only, or okay to put on the prayer list.

The confirmation: “Our prayer team will be praying for you.”

Prefer to talk? The prayer line is 209-581-9599 — already on Home, Contact, and this page.

We’re in good company

Sister churches doing it well

clovissda.org

Clovis SDA

“You Belong Here” — a clear welcome and plain-language service descriptions.

modestosda.org

Modesto Central SDA

“Welcome Home” — livestream, newsletter signup and next steps up front.

naplessdachurch.org

Naples SDA

Plan a Visit, named leaders, and this week’s announcements on the home page.

Clovis is in our own Central California Conference. None of the three uses the default Frame template.

Cost & hosting

Free today. Free tomorrow.

Today

Frame by Adventist Connect

✓ Free for NAD churches
✓ WordPress, hosted by the NAD
– Calendar and pages updated by hand
– Logins and plugins to look after

Proposed

Cloudflare Pages

✓ Free plan: unlimited requests & bandwidth
✓ Secure https (SSL) included
✓ Instant rollback to any earlier version
✓ Rebuilds itself when the bulletin is published

$0

new cost. The only ongoing cost is the same as today: the ceresadventist.org domain renewal, already paid today. Registered since 2006, next renewal due by March 13, 2027.

Sources, checked Nov 9, 2026: pages.cloudflare.com · developers.cloudflare.com/pages (Limits, Functions pricing, Rollbacks) · support.adventistconnect.org Frame FAQ (“Is there a cost? No.”) · RDAP record for ceresadventist.org

Cost is the easy part. Our current site on Frame is free; the NAD provides it at no cost. The proposed site on Cloudflare Pages is also free.

From Cloudflare's own pages, checked November 9: Pages plans come with unlimited sites, seats, requests and bandwidth; requests to static pages are free and unlimited; SSL is included; the free plan allows 500 builds a month (we'd use about four or five); and any earlier version can be restored instantly.

The only ongoing cost is the domain renewal, which the church already pays today. The domain was registered in 2006 and is next due March 13, 2027. I haven't quoted a dollar figure because I couldn't verify the current renewal price.

Frame source: support.adventistconnect.org/help/frame-by-adventist-connect-relaunch-faq. Cloudflare: pages.cloudflare.com; developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits/; /pages/functions/pricing/; /pages/configuration/rollbacks/.

Fair questions

What you’re probably wondering

What will it cost?

Nothing new. Hosting is free; the domain renewal continues exactly as today.

Is it secure?

The public site is plain pages: no plugins and no public login to break into. https comes built in. Only the named team can publish.

Who owns the domain?

The church keeps ceresadventist.org, same registrar account, and church email keeps working. The new site lives in an account the church controls.

What happens to today’s site?

It stays live, untouched, until launch. If anything goes wrong, we point the domain back. Rollback is easy.

Cost: nothing new, covered on the last slide.

Security: the new site is static: plain pages served by Cloudflare, with no WordPress, no plugins and no public login page on the site itself. That's the kind of surface the phishing post came through. Publishing is limited to the named team. I'd suggest two-step sign-in on every account.

Domain: ceresadventist.org stays with the church. Technical detail for the minutes: to serve the main domain from Cloudflare Pages, the domain's DNS has to move to a free Cloudflare account (today the DNS sits with Adventist Connect). We'd copy the existing email records exactly (today mail runs through GoDaddy), so church email keeps working. Before launch we should confirm whose login holds the registrar account (Wild West Domains) and make sure at least two church people have access.

Current site: it stays live and untouched until we switch DNS at the end of the week. Launch is that DNS switch; rollback is switching it back. Cloudflare also lets us restore any earlier version of the new site instantly.

Source: developers.cloudflare.com/pages/configuration/custom-domains/ (apex domains require Cloudflare nameservers).

Who keeps it current

A small team, a simple routine

SD

Sheri Darrough

Technology lead · accounts & access

SH

Shane Hilde

Builds the site · weekly publish

TJ

Church office

Tanisha Jimenez · bulletin content, as today

Every week (proposed)

1

Office finalizes the bulletin

2

Shane publishes, one step

3

Site, calendar & mobile bulletin update

4

Anyone spot-checks on a phone

Once a month: a quick look at ministries, contacts and photos. Sheri can publish too, so there’s always a backup.

Timeline & tonight’s ask

A no-cost pilot

Live about one week after approval — for example, the week of Nov 23 if you approve tonight.

Tonight · Nov 16

Board approves the no-cost pilot

Days 1–2

Gather content and photos with the office and Sheri

Days 3–4

Build and review on a private preview link

Day 5

Head elder signs off

Days 6–7

Copy email records, switch ceresadventist.org DNS to Cloudflare, and go live

The ask

Approve a no-cost pilot of a new church website.

Team: Sheri Darrough & Shane Hilde
Cost: $0, same domain
Target launch: one week after approval (for example, the week of Nov 23, 2026)
Safeguard: today’s site stays live until we switch the domain

Here's the timeline. This can be live about one week after approval — for example, the week of November 23 if you approve tonight.

Days 1 and 2: Sheri, the office, and I gather the real photos and leftover copy we still need. Days 3 and 4: we finish the build on a private preview link; nothing public changes yet. Day 5: the head elder signs off. Days 6 and 7: we copy the existing email records first, then switch ceresadventist.org DNS to Cloudflare and go live.

So the motion I'd ask for: approve a no-cost pilot of a new church website, with Sheri Darrough and Shane Hilde as the team, aiming to launch about one week after approval, with the current site staying live until we switch the domain. Rollback is pointing DNS back.

Separately, and whatever the board decides: let's remove the suspicious "summons" post from the calendar and review who has access to the current site this week.

Thank you. I'm happy to take questions, or to show the demo again.