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The Google Ad Grant · since 2003

Google will give your church $10,000 a month in free advertising. Many churches don’t know this grant exists.

You get ads that put your church in front of people searching for one. I help you get the grant and get the most from it (for a flat $100/month).

Steinar Skipsnes Founder, Pure Wonderful

Does your church qualify?

Most churches do. Put yours in and I’ll check it by hand and email you an answer.

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What’s your church’s website?

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You should have your answer in about 1 business day.

  • I run one myself The first Google grant I managed was for my own ministry, Faith Up.
  • 15+ years of experience I’ve spent my whole career managing Google Ads for organizations.
  • Millions in ad spend I’ve managed millions in Google Ads, from Microsoft to my own small ministry.
  • A founder, not an agency When you reach out, you get an answer from me — not a call center, not an AI.
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Every week people are searching for a church in your area.

The grant pays for your church to appear in that moment.

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The process.

Just about everything you need to do is step 1.

  1. 1

    You forward emails

    You’ll receive a few emails during the application process. You forward those to me.

  2. 2

    I build the account

    When your grant has been approved, I build and launch your campaigns.

  3. 3

    I keep it compliant

    To keep the grant alive, certain rules have to be followed. The key ones are listed below.

  4. 4

    I manage it

    I manage the campaigns on an ongoing basis to help people discover your church.

The application takes about 3 minutes.

Every month you get a summary: how often your ads showed, how many clicked, and what they searched for. Here’s one from my ministry.

The rules.

Following them is my job, not yours.

The seven rules

  • A 5% click-through rateEvery month
  • At least one conversionEvery month
  • Keyword quality scores above 2Continuously
  • No single-word keywordsContinuously
  • 2+ ad groups per campaign and 2+ sitelinksContinuously
  • Website policy complianceContinuously
  • Google’s annual surveyWhen it arrives

Every requirement above is published:
Ad Grants Policy Compliance Guide

The cost.

Billing doesn’t start until your grant is approved.

What Google makes available, every month

$10,000

What you pay, every month

$100

Your first month is free.

This all started with a Google grant for my own ministry, Faith Up, which sends encouragement to 5,000+ people. Here’s one for you.

The questions.

Who owns the account?
Your church does. You give me access to manage it.
How is the grant provided?
As ad credit within your Google Ads account.
Is there a contract?
No. It’s month to month, and you can cancel anytime.
How does billing work?
By card, set up once your grant is approved. The first month is free.
How quickly will the ads start running?
Usually within two weeks. Grant accounts are slow to start.

Let’s get your church in front of people looking for one.

It starts with a free check. Twenty seconds.

Check my church

Steinar Skipsnes

Letter from Steinar

Google has been giving nonprofits an advertising grant since 2003. They don’t publicize it, so either you’ve heard about it or you haven’t.

Many churches haven’t.

The idea to offer this struck me one day because I happen to sit on both sides of it. I run my own ministry, Faith Up, which sends devotional encouragement to 5,000+ email subscribers.

Google Ads has been my profession for more than fifteen years. I’ve managed over $200 million of it, including at Microsoft.

I wanted to make it simple for churches to claim it.

As long as you stay compliant, you’re able to spend up to $10,000 every month.

That’s advertising that puts your church in front of people already looking for a church in your area, which helps more people walk through your doors on a Sunday morning.

I don’t charge a setup fee. A flat $100 a month to handle all of it, billed once the grant is approved.

On the personal side, I live in Seattle with my wife and our two kids.

Back in 2016 I met someone new every day for a year — not a day missed. Photos of everyone are on Instagram, and an interview about it ended up with 9.4 million views.

I would love to help your church take advantage of this.

-Steinar

Surrender

We’re a society of self-reliance.
Pull yourself up.
Figure it out.
You got this.

That’s the messaging.

But that messaging leads to exhaustion.
It leads to burnout.

It leads to a life that’s running on fumes…
Trying to do it all alone.

That’s not God’s design.

God’s design is surrender…
It’s trust.

It’s leaning on Him.
It’s putting Him at the center…
So His strength shines.

That may sound weak to the world.
But it’s wisdom.

He wants us to lay the weight we feel…
At His feet.

“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
-Matthew 11:28, ESV

That’s an invitation.
That’s relief.

But so many don’t accept it.
They keep grinding.
They keep striving.

They put their smarts at the center…
Instead of Christ.

That doesn’t mean you don’t work hard.
That means you start with God.

That means you stay tuned into His nudges.
That means you go where you’re guided.
That’s surrender.

When that happens…
Everything else falls into place.

You’ll have doors open that you didn’t see.
You’ll have one thing to say…
“Thank you, Lord.”

So when the world says…
Hold tighter.

Listen to God saying…
Surrender.

When we do that…
We don’t confuse giving ourselves praise.
Because it’s clear…
It was Him.

-Steinar

A month on the grant.

August 2026

Real numbers from the Google grant for my own ministry, Faith Up. Your church would get one like this every month — one email, nothing to log into.

What people were searching

Searches that led to the most clicks.

daily devotional75 clicks
daily devotional for today18 clicks
daily devotional for women16 clicks
daily devotional for men15 clicks
devotional for today14 clicks
devotional14 clicks
daily devotions13 clicks
morning devotional11 clicks
daily devotion11 clicks
devotions for women10 clicks

183 different searches brought at least one person that month.

What this looks like for a church

Same report, different words: for a church the list reads church near me, Christian churches — people looking for a church in your area that week.

Get in touch

I will get back to you as soon as possible.