In celebration of nine years in ministry, I was tasked by the Lord to support my vibrant church home with a fully custom website redesign. My incredible pastors, Rev. James and Pastor Paulina Sarpong-Kumankomah, graciously gave me tons of autonomy after I approached them with this Spirit-led idea as my service unto God and the church, which I did not take lightly.

The process itself took about two months, just in time for our church's anniversary and its jubilant services—the annual Open Heavens Conference. But most importantly, how God showed me how to intentionally design this website through prayer and worship has changed my creative approaches altogether.

God tugged on my heart to fervently pray and intercede over the website while worshipping Him in song before I ever touched my Mac laptop or began sketching any wireframes of what the designs could look like. Beyond that, I even felt drawn by the Lord to physically take my laptop inside the church sanctuary and pray at the altar with it in my hand as I was getting to the finish line of completing the website.

When I say, I genuinely balled my eyes out when I finally finished this fifteen-paged website, I am not kidding! The creation of the RHCIMA Mt. Zion Center website did not, by any means, feel like a project. Rather, the design journey felt like a sweet gift from God to not only pursue but to collaborate with Him in it.

Rev. James and Pastor Paulina were looking to redevelop a website that ultimately became a "virtual church headquarters" while using a platform that had an easier learning curve and usage abilities for site maintenance as needed than Wordpress—their former website host.

With that said, I not only transferred and remodeled the church's brand messaging in collaboration with my pastors to ensure that we left no question unanswered. More importantly, I developed the website on Squarespace, a platform with an easy drag-and-drop editor, so that we can train any current and incoming church volunteers on how to upkeep the site with ease.

With Christ as the first designer, I followed by a deeper-toned gradients and a color scheme with shades of blacks, purples, greens, and even browns out of our church photography that already had more of a rich palette and colorings. That way, the years' worth of content we had did not fit into a branding that would be non-cohesive in any form.

As said earlier, Mt. Zion Center has a plethora of awesome imagery taken and edited by our amazing Media department. So, picking and choosing which realms of content to use for the site was quite a breeze for me. Every photograph used on the website highly emphasizes the heart of our church, which is prayer, praise and worship, and fellowship that is joyously loving.

As the Lord led me, I went with a more modern approach in connection to the aesthetics our church already uses—from our event graphics down to the ambience of our church sanctuary itself. So, I created with cleanliness and simplicity in mind by using straight lines, pill buttons, sans-serif typography, and sleek curvatures with layered photography edits to align with that contemporary feel.

— Matthew 16:18-20 (Amplified Bible)