Jesus didn't blend in.
Your church shouldn't either.

We’re Church Design Lab, a brand agency for church planters, pastors, and leaders who refuse to let the gospel feel generic.

We build church brands for unapologetic churches reaching the lost. Because safe churches don't change cities. Sent ones do.

Brand strategy, identity, websites, and campaigns — for the sent.

Oceanside Community Church

Brand Identity • Motion • Design System • Digital

United Conference 2026

Creative Direction • Brand Identity • Motion • Web Experience

Church Graphics

Product Strategy, UX, Brand Systems, Platform Design & Growth

Sweet Life Conference 2025

End-to-end experience design across brand, visuals, and media

Points of Light Oakland

Brand Identity • Web Experience • Digital Systems

About Us

We’re pastors, designers, and prodigals who came home.
And it grieves us to watch the local church fall short in creativity… when we serve the God who made the universe. The same creativity that spoke stars into being should be the creativity reaching our cities for Christ. That conviction is why we exist.

So we built Church Design Lab. A design agency breathing life into dry brands. Building websites people actually want to use. Crafting conferences and campaigns that don’t just convert… they transform.

We’re not a distant agency. We pray, we listen, we serve. We forge the work shoulder-to-shoulder with your leadership and your creative team.. before we design, before we build.

Design isn’t just what we do. It’s how we serve the Church.

What We Build

Real brands. Real strategy. Real partnership, for churches who want to stop looking like every other church on the block. Let’s un-bland your brand.

Creative Partnerships

Your creative team, embedded. Branding, web, motion, campaigns — handled end-to-end by one team that knows your church by name. The cost of a freelancer. The output of an agency. The heart of a staff member.

Brand Strategy & Identity

Every church carries a one-of-one expression of Jesus. We find yours, name it, design it, and give you the system to live it out — from logo to liturgy to the t-shirt your volunteers actually want to wear.

Conference & Event Branding

Your conference deserves more than a date and a stage plot. We design event brands that fill rooms, spark word-of-mouth, and leave people wearing the merch six months later.

Websites That Convert

Most church websites are brochures nobody asked for. We build sites that do what they’re supposed to do: get the right person through the front door on Sunday. Fast, searchable, beautiful, and built to actually reach the unchurched.

Communications Strategy

You have something to say. We help you say it so people hear it — across social, email, sermon series, and the hundred other touchpoints your church is already using but probably not well.

Campaigns & Seasonal Marketing

Easter. Christmas. Launches. Sermon series. Vision Sunday. We design campaigns that earn attention inside and outside your church — campaigns your people share because they’re actually worth sharing.

Video & Motion

Sermon reels, sermon bumpers, recap videos, invite films, launch teasers. Work that moves and actually makes people feel something — instead of sitting in a Dropbox folder nobody opens.

AI & Automation Systems

Your church is running on borrowed time. We build AI tools and workflows that give it back, sermon prep assistants, social content engines, smart CRMs, automated follow-up, creative production systems. All built around your voice, your theology, and your community. Stewardship through technology, so your team can focus on the things only humans can do: pray, pastor, and love people.

Your in-house creative team. Without the in-house cost.

Most churches can’t afford a full creative department. So we are one, for you. Branding, web, motion, campaigns, and strategy, all handled by a team that prays for your people by name.

Notes from the flock.

From the pastors, planters, and leaders who trusted us with their brand.

Church Design Lab was a great creative partner for United Conference. They understood our vision, led the process clearly, and brought everything together across brand, motion, and digital. The experience was collaborative throughout , and we loved the conference landing page!

Stefan Gartrell

Thomas & Church Design Lab led the creative work for Sweet Life Conference with clarity and excellence. They oversaw branding, video, social, and on-site production for a large-scale event, bringing strong leadership, attention to detail, and a collaborative approach that made the entire experience cohesive and impactful.

Debbie Heden

Transform Your Church Media

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