Bethel (Hugo)

A free church website template for evangelical and Baptist congregations. Eight pages, self-hosted typefaces, dark mode and no external requests.

Author ChurchCreation
Github Stars 0
Last Commit Sep 10, 2026

Built around the questions a first-time visitor actually asks — what happens on a Sunday, whether to dress up, whether anyone will make them speak.

Pages

New here, Sundays, Baptism, Groups, What we believe, About, Contact.

Getting started

git submodule add the repo into themes/, then set theme in your config

Notes

  • Typefaces are self-hosted and subset to the faces used, so the theme makes no external requests at all — no CDN, no webfont service, no analytics.
  • Dark mode follows the visitor’s system setting, with a toggle.
  • Everything a church edits once — name, address, telephone, service times, giving link — lives in a single church.config.json, so the header, footer and structured data cannot drift apart.
  • URLs are flat (about.html) because the template’s own runtime resolves the current nav link and its configuration from a flat path.