A complete partnership to reach your community and engage your church.
Church Communications and Marketing Partner
Story & Stone becomes your complete communications partner, holding strategy and execution together so missed details stop finding their way back to you.
We learn about your church, sit at your planning table, and build a clear plan to reach your community and engage your church. You approve the direction, and we carry it forward.
No pressure, just a clear next step.
Trusted by partner churches
SOUND FAMILIAR?
You have good people, and they're working hard. But every ministry is doing its own thing, and somehow every missed detail still ends up back on your desk.
Here's the part you don't say out loud: a church of your size and experience should be communicating better than this.
You've thought about handing it off. What stops you is the fear that you'll still be managing every detail, just with another invoice attached.
And honestly? You don't need one more person asking what you want. You need someone to tell you what you should do
If you saw your week in any of that, you're in the right place, because this is exactly the gap Story & Stone steps into.
Built by people who've sat in your seat.
years of church-staff experience
churches served across our team's careers
22
100%
churches and nonprofits partnered with in 18 months
of churches that reached 12 months renewed
200+
30+
How The Partnership Works
Three steps to a plan you can trust.
Share your church's story.
We learn about your people, voice, staff, community, and the tools you already have before we recommend a single thing.ents
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We bring you a personalized strategy that gives every platform a purpose, so you set the direction without having to build it yourself.
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Approve your plan.
Lead with confidence.
Your dedicated Communications Director and our team carry the plan alongside your staff, so you're free to focus on the work only you can do.
This is for you if…
You have capable staff and volunteers, but no one is leading the whole communications picture, so the gaps keep landing on you.
You've become your church's acting communications director, and it's pulling you away from preaching, vision, and your people.
Easter, fall launch, Christmas, or your next big series is coming, and you already know it will be planned in pieces, at the last minute, again.
You want a partner who brings a recommendation and a plan to the table, not someone waiting for you to tell them what to post.
You're ready to approve the direction and trust someone else to carry the details.
If you nodded along, you're not behind,
and you don't have to figure this out alone.
This is exactly the kind of church we built Story & Stone to walk beside.
Month-to-month · 90-day Confidence Window
What Becomes Possible
Here's what changes when the right partner is carrying your communications.
Reclaim 20–30 hours a week that you and your staff spend chasing details, and put them back into ministry.
Grow your volunteer base. Our partner churches have seen volunteer growth of more than 40%.
Watch your events reach people you've never reached. Christ Church's Trunk or Treat grew from about 500 to more than 2,500 families.
Keep the visitors your website already gets. With a clear next step on every page, bounce rates have dropped by 75%.
Drop two to three meetings from your week, because decisions come to you as recommendations, not blank questions.
Delegate with confidence, leading the direction while a team you trust carries the details.
See your people respond: email clicks up 45%, email opens up 20%, and social engagement up 60%.
Walk into Easter, fall launch, and every major series with the plan built 12–14 weeks ahead.
back every week for pastors and staff
ahead on every major season & event
12–14 wks
20–30 hrs
2,500+
families at Christ Church's Trunk or Treat, up from about 500
volunteer growth in partner churches
drop in website bounce rates
75%
40%+
See what this could look like for your church.
"I don't manage the communication details anymore. Story & Stone owns the plan, and I set the direction. That's given me my week back."
Jeremy, Executive Pastor, OCC
We learn your church
We learn about your church before we recommend anything.
We watch your services, read your emails, follow your social media, and learn your language, your people, and your community. Every member of our team has served on church staff, so we understand how a church actually works on a Tuesday, not just on a Sunday.
And for your first 60 days, we'll revise any content until it sounds and looks like your church.
"They're fully virtual, but they don't feel like an outside vendor. They sound like us, and they're part of our staff team."
Brian, Lead Pastor, The Fellowship
We don't replace your team.
We make them stronger.
Across our team's years in church communications, we've partnered with more than 100 communications directors who kept their roles and grew into confident leaders. Half of Story & Stone's current partner churches work this way today. Extend Our Team is built for exactly this: your comms lead gets a strategic partner, a full production team, and the coaching to lead well.
"I finally get to lead instead of doing everything myself. Our Communications Manager brings the plan, and our team carries it out across every campus."
Robyn, Communications Director, Compass Church
Every option has a place.
Here's how they compare.
Weighing Your Options
What's Inside
Choose how we serve your church.
Be Our Team
For churches that need strategy, leadership, and execution handled.
Lead your church's communications without carrying the details, because a dedicated Communications Director and a full team own the strategy, the calendar, and the follow-through. You'll have every platform working with a clear purpose, every ministry leader supported, and Easter, Christmas, fall launch, and each series planned 12–14 weeks ahead. You set the direction in a weekly
one-on-one, and we carry it forward.
Extend Our Team
For churches with a communications lead who needs a strategic partner and production support.
Give your communications lead the partner, coaching, and production team they need to lead with confidence. They'll have content created and managed, digital marketing support (ads, social, website, and SEO), and a clear strategy for reaching your community and engaging your church. Your team stays in place and gets stronger.
Equip Our Team
For churches that need custom content, exactly when they need it.
Get professional, customized graphics, video, and content that sound and look like your church, without adding another hire. You choose what you need, and your team walks away with work that's ready to use.
Many churches start with Equip or Extend and grow into Be Our Team. Wherever you start, the partnership can grow with you.
Included with Be Our Team and Extend Our Team
Commit with confidence.
Your first 90 days
The 90-Day Confidence Window
You have your first three months to decide whether this partnership is giving you the relief you need. If it isn't, you can step out of your commitment. You'll know it's working before you're locked into anything.
Bonus · $3,200 value
Communications Audit and 90-Day Launch Plan
In your first two weeks, we study your church from the inside out: your services, platforms, ministries, staff, and community. Then we hand you a full Communications Audit and a 90-Day Launch Plan built around what we find, a $3,200 value that's yours to keep.
12-month partnership
10% off every month
Commit to a full year and save 10% on your monthly rate from day one. That's more than $7,000 back into your ministry budget over the year with Be Our Team, and more than $4,200 with Extend Our Team.
Pricing
Clear pricing. No contracts.
A team that stays as long as it's serving you well.
Be Our Team
Starting at $5,870/month
Your full communications dept., led and carried out by our team.
Communications Leadership
• Dedicated Communications Director
• Kim personally onboards your church and stays engaged with you for the first 3 months, followed by quarterly leadership meetings with owners Kim and/or Steve
Communications Operations
• Project management and vendor management
Content & Creative
• Full content and creative design: graphics, social, print, banners, and digital deliverables
• Creative video: bumpers and podcast edits
Digital Marketing & Management
• Ads, website development and management, and email writing
• Posting, scheduling, and platform management
Your exact price depends on your content volume and whether video is included.
Extend Our Team
Starting at $3,550/month
A strategic partner and production team to support your comms lead.
• Dedicated Communications Director for strategy and coaching
• Quarterly check-ins with the owners in year one, plus calls as needed
Communications Leadership
Communications Operations
• Coordination between your team and ours
Content & Creative
• Content and creative design
• Creative video: bumpers
Digital Marketing & Management
• Ads, website, and email
• Posting, scheduling, and platform management
Your exact price depends on your content volume and whether video is included.
Add-on for Be Our Team or Extend Our Team
Kim Tarlton as your Communications Director
+$1,200/month
Communications Leadership
Dedicated Communications Director
Dedicated Communications Manager
Communications Coaching: one hour weekly with an experienced Story & Stone communications director
Communications & Marketing Audit
$900/month
$680/month
$350/month
$3200/total
Content & Creative
Graphics (All your series, events & ministry graphics needs.)
Social Media Content & Sermon Clips
Podcasts
Video Bumpers
Equip Our Team: choose what you need
À la carte services, month to month. À la carte pricing is separate from our partnership packages.
Communications Operations
$820/month
Project Management
Digital Marketing & Management
Website Development (includes analytics and SEO)
Email Management (weekly all church, monthly students & kids, events)
Text & App Development (includes StudioC & Apollos integrations)
Additional a-la-carte options are available as well as customization to all packages listed.
Schedule a call to discover more options for your church.
$850/month
$950/month
$950/per episode
$600/per video
$900/month
$750/month
$650/month