Giving two connected charities one platform that speaks their supporters’ languages

The Challenge

Antioch Missions and CCSM (Chinese Church Support Ministries) are connected charities supporting the church and people of China, with national offices and supporters around the world.

Their old website platform was outdated, unsupported and no longer reflected the scale of their work. Both charities needed their own distinct identity online, but running two separate systems would double the maintenance. Everything also had to work in three languages, and the monthly prayer letters each office sends out had become a time-consuming upload job.

Our Approach

We extended our own custom CMS to give both charities a single shared back end with two distinct front ends, so the team manage everything in one place while Antioch Missions and CCSM each keep their own look.

Both sites are fully multilingual in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. We built a blogging system with categories and automatic RSS feeds, migrated thousands of articles from the old platform, and integrated Mailchimp so supporters can join the right list for their national office and language.

For the prayer letters, we automated the whole process. The team drag in the PDF, and the system generates an optimised cover image and links to the document automatically.

The Result

Both charities now have modern websites that are simple for their own teams to update, in every language their supporters read.

We’ve supported AMCCSM ever since through a web support and development retainer, with monthly calls and continual improvements. Recent work includes stronger spam protection with Cloudflare Turnstile, faster-loading prayer update pages, an editor upgrade, and tools that let the team retire a national office without losing its archive.