Digital Gospel
The dream behind Digital Gospel

Know. Reach. Welcome.

Three steps for every church in the UK: know your mission field, reach out to the people in it, and welcome them into God's Kingdom. Everything Digital Gospel does serves one of these three.

Know

Who actually lives in the streets around your church, from the census, in plain English. Free, always.

Reach

Your invitation on your neighbours' screens, in their own front rooms. The modern doorstep.

Welcome

One tap on a chair, a card or a stand, and a visitor has their next step. Nothing gets lost.

The dream

For the UK Church to know its mission field, reach out, and welcome people into God's Kingdom.

I have a dream that every single town in the UK will have churches that know their community. Most local churches are sitting in a mission field that has never been properly invited. The willingness is there. The welcome is there. The gospel is there. What is missing is that the people in the streets around the building simply don't know the door is open.

At Vision Church in Bromley we started with eight of us and a prayer: we didn't want to waste our postcode. We read the census for our own streets. We put a warm invitation on our neighbours' screens. And we got the welcome ready. Around two hundred adults and children came through the door at Easter, and the Sunday after we needed more chairs.

That pattern is the whole of Digital Gospel: know, reach, welcome. The first step is a gift to every church. The other two are there for churches who then choose to invite, and they fund the gift so it stays free.

Churches don't need to pay to know their community. This is my gift to God's Kingdom, and I need the help of all churches to fulfil this vision.
A full hall at a Vision Church community event in Bromley

Easter at Vision Church, Bromley: around two hundred neighbours, invited from their screens.

Step 1 · Know

Know your mission field.

A seven-page picture of the people who actually live around your church: ages, households, work, faith and heritage, from the 2021 census, in plain English. Choose a radius, tell us where to send it, and it is yours in minutes.

Free, always.No strings. We only ask where to send it.
Get your community report →
Step 2 · Reach

Reach out to your neighbours.

Your Christmas carols, Easter fun day, Alpha or summer fair, placed warmly on the Facebook and Instagram feeds of the people in your streets. We design the invitation, build the sign-up page, run the campaign from your own account and report back plainly.

£199 to £599 per event.You choose what each event is worth to your church. Fewer than 25 sign-ups and the next campaign is free.
See how a campaign works →
Step 3 · Welcome

Welcome them in.

When a neighbour walks in, one tap on a Tap Tag on the chair, a Tap Card in the welcome pack or a Tap Stand on the desk opens your church's own page on their phone: say hello, join a group, what's on, give. No app, no typing, no paper forms that get lost.

Tap Tags from £49 for 30.Tags only, nothing monthly. Or with your own Tap Page and Care from £24 a month.
See Tap Pages at Vision Church →
What we hold to

From one church to another.

Knowing your community is never for sale.

The report is a gift. If a church takes it and never spends a pound with us, the vision was still fulfilled for that church.

Your church owns everything.

The ad account, the sign-up page, the list, the website, the Tap Page. We build it with you and it stays yours.

Every figure is real.

Census data for your streets, Meta's own numbers for your campaign, Google's own test for your website. Nothing estimated, nothing dressed up.

Churches carry it to churches.

We can't reach every town ourselves, and we don't need to. Every church that receives the report becomes a sender. Pass it on, so the next town can be known too.

Plain prices, no tie-in.

One price per event, everything handled. Book one at a time, or several together and save. Cancel Care whenever you like.

A pastor, not an agency.

Everything here was tried first in our own church, with our own budget, and it has worked every single time we have dared to do it.

Who's behind it

I'm Vlad. I pastor a small church in Bromley.

Digital Gospel started out of a holy burden: that we would be a Great Commission church, and never a Great Omission church. It started out of the pain of no budget, no staff members, and quite literally a handful of people with whom we said "yes" to God. I'm married to Naomi, and we have a baby on the way. Everything on this site comes out of one conviction: the people around your church can be reached, and the place to reach them is where they already are.

What I can promise you: plain words, honest numbers, and no pitch when we talk. Bring your community report, your next event, or just your questions. I'll tell you what has worked for us in Bromley and what might work in your streets, whether or not we ever work together.

The measure of this vision is simple: towns where at least one church knows its community. One day, a map of Britain lighting up town by town.Your town could be next. The first step costs nothing.

Church leader to church leader

Twenty minutes with Pastor Vlad. No pitch, no strings.

Bring your community report, your next event, or just your questions. Or write to contact@digitalgospel.uk.

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