Iglesia Bautista de el Valle — a bilingual church site that pays for itself by not being free.
A growing Central Islip congregation needed a real bilingual site — service times, ministries, sermons, calendar — without paying for a fragile Wix subscription that auto-renewed every year.
“Bilingüe, completo, sin gastos mensuales. Forge built our church site the right way the first time — service times, ministries, calendar, sermons — and Forge keeps adding pages for our congregation in Spanish and English both.”
What we were asked to do.
Pastor Diego's previous site was a free Wix template that hadn't been touched in three years. Service times were stale; the calendar was a static image. The congregation is mixed Spanish + English, but everything on the site was in one language at a time. The work-order: ship a real bilingual site, no monthly subscription, that keeps adding content as the church grows.
Week 1 — the rebuild
- →Custom Astro + Cloudflare Pages site at iglesiabautistadeelvalle.com — zero monthly hosting cost
- →Full /es route tree shipped at launch — every page exists in both English and Spanish with hreflang
- →Service-time + ministry + calendar components driven by a single content file the pastor can edit
- →Sermon archive component with Schema.org Article markup
Every night since
- →Cross-language link insertion when one side adds a page the other side doesn't have yet
- →Bilingual meta title rewrites when GSC shows ES queries impressing on EN pages
- →Calendar entries surfaced as upcoming-event blocks on the homepage as service dates approach
- →Image optimization sweeps as the congregation uploads event photos
The site is free to run, bilingual end-to-end, and indexes 73 URLs across both languages. Pastor Diego edits text files; Forge ships the rest.
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