Case Study: How Subi Church Keeps Their Website Always Up to Date with PCO Embed
Church: Subi Church (Subiaco Church of Christ)
Location: Subiaco, Western Australia
Website: subichurch.com
Planning Center modules used: Groups, Calendars, Events, Sermons (Publishing)
About Subi Church
Subi Church is a contemporary, Bible-based church located at 260 Bagot Road in Subiaco, Western Australia. With four weekend services — Saturday 5pm, Sunday 9am, Sunday 10:45am, and a Sunday Night 6pm service aimed at young adults — Subi is a busy, active congregation with a strong vision to bring in and build up disciples in increasing number.
The church runs a wide range of ministries covering kids, youth, young adults, men, women, seniors, and missions, along with a robust small groups program, community outreach initiatives, and several evangelistic courses including Christianity Explained and Christianity Explored. Managing and communicating all of this activity to their congregation and the wider community is a significant undertaking — and one that PCO Embed has helped simplify considerably.
The Challenge: Keeping a WordPress Website Current
Like many churches, Subi Church runs their website on WordPress. It’s a well-designed site that serves as the public face of the church — welcoming visitors, showcasing ministries, and pointing people toward next steps.
The challenge with any content-rich church website is keeping it current. Events change. New sermon series start. Small groups open and close. Courses run at different times of year. Without a live connection to the systems that hold this data, someone has to manually update the website every time something changes in Planning Center — and in a busy church, that’s a lot of updates.
PCO Embed solves this by creating a live bridge between Planning Center and the Subi Church website. When staff update information in PCO, the website reflects it automatically. No double-handling. No outdated pages.
How Subi Church Uses PCO Embed
Subi Church has implemented PCO Embed across multiple pages of their website, covering their full range of Planning Center data.
📸 Upcoming Events — Events Gallery
Page: subichurch.com/events-gallery/
The events gallery page shows upcoming church events pulled live from Planning Center Events. Visitors can browse what’s coming up at a glance — from regular ministry events to special gatherings and community outreach activities. Because the data comes directly from PCO, the moment an event is added or updated by the office team, it appears on the website.
📅 Monthly Calendar
Page: subichurch.com/events-calendar/
The calendar page gives the full picture of church activity across the month in a familiar calendar grid view. Multi-day events span across their full date range, and visitors can navigate forward and back through months to plan ahead. This is especially useful for regular attenders who want to know what’s happening across the breadth of the church’s ministry life — not just the next big event.
🏠 Small Groups Finder
Page: subichurch.com/small-groups/
Subi Church runs small groups across Perth and online, and finding the right group is one of the most important next steps for someone new to the church. The small groups page powered by PCO Embed allows visitors to browse all available groups, filter by type, search by name or schedule, and see which groups are open for new members.
For a church whose mission is to build disciples in increasing number, making it easy to find and join a small group is mission-critical. PCO Embed makes this a seamless experience — and because it pulls live from Planning Center Groups, the page is always accurate without any manual upkeep.
🎙️ Sermons
Page: subichurch.com/sermons/
Every weekend, one of Subi’s pastors preaches from God’s Word in an expository and engaging fashion. The sermons page powered by PCO Embed lets visitors watch video or listen to audio of recent sermons and browse past series — directly from the church website, without leaving for a separate platform.
Subi also provides links to their full service archive on Vimeo and their Spotify podcast feed for those who want to go deeper into the archive. The PCO Embed sermon widget handles the most recent and current content, keeping the page fresh every week automatically.
✝️ Christianity Explained — Evangelistic Courses
Page: subichurch.com/christianity-explained/
One of the more creative uses of PCO Embed at Subi Church is on their Christianity Explained page. Rather than waiting for people to sign up for their next evangelistic course, the page uses a PCO Embed channel to display all episodes of the course for people to watch — Christianity Explained — sourced directly from Planning Center.
When a new video is added in PCO, it appears on the website automatically, removing a manual step that would otherwise require a staff member to update the website every time a new video is scheduled.
The Result: A Website That Looks After Itself
For a church the size and activity level of Subi, the cumulative time saved by not manually updating these pages of dynamic content is significant. More importantly, the website is always accurate — visitors and congregation members can trust that what they see on the site reflects what’s actually happening.
The WordPress site handles what WordPress does best: the design, the static content, the branding, and the church’s story. PCO Embed handles the dynamic, ever-changing data — the groups, events, sermons, and courses — pulling it live from the system the Subi team already uses every day.
Key Takeaways for Other Churches
Subi Church’s implementation offers a useful template for any church running Planning Center on a WordPress (or any other) website:
Use PCO Embed for anything that changes regularly. Events, groups, sermon series, and course schedules are all perfect candidates — they’re managed in PCO anyway, so displaying them via PCO Embed eliminates double-handling entirely.
Don’t limit it to the obvious pages. Subi’s use of PCO Embed on their Christianity Explained course page is a great example of thinking creatively about where live data adds value beyond the standard events and groups pages.
Let your website reflect your ministry. A church’s website should be a living reflection of what’s happening in the life of the congregation. PCO Embed makes that possible without placing ongoing maintenance burden on already-busy ministry staff.
See It for Yourself
You can see PCO Embed in action across the Subi Church website:
- Events Gallery: subichurch.com/events-gallery/
- Monthly Calendar: subichurch.com/events-calendar/
- Small Groups: subichurch.com/small-groups/
- Sermons: subichurch.com/sermons/
- Christianity Explained: subichurch.com/christianity-explained/
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