01
— Hook
A bilingual church on a Wix page
Pastor José Luis leads a Spanish-first, English-second congregation in Wellington. Sermons, events, and giving all lived behind a tired Wix layout that didn't match the room.
Iglesia Encuentro Con La Vida
Pastor José Luis Espinosa
EngagementBilingual church scaffold + giving + visitor pipeline
Total
StatePreview live · DNS cutover pending pastor approval
02
— The constraint
Reverent. Bilingual. Pastor-maintainable.
Had to feel like a church, not a SaaS product. Spanish primary with English alongside, never a flag-toggle afterthought. And the pastor had to be able to update it without calling a developer.
03
— The build
Next.js scaffold, bilingual from day one
Spanish-first homepage with the line "Donde la fe encuentra la vida," a bilingual visitor card writing to Supabase + Resend, Stripe Checkout giving (one-time and monthly), and a migration ready for prayer requests and gifts when the church is.
04
— The unlock
What the pastor gets back
A site that reads like the church it represents, a visitor card that lands in his inbox the moment someone fills it out, and a giving flow that doesn't route through a third-party iframe. Sermons, prayer requests, and small-group pages slot in next.
05
— The proof
Live on preview · awaiting cutover
Scaffold live at encuentro-con-la-vida.vercel.app, all routes returning 200. iglesiaecv.org still points to Wix — DNS flip is the pastor's call, not ours.
06
— Close
Builds like this
Bilingual sites, giving flows, and quiet operator tools for churches and small congregations that want to feel like themselves online.
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