Or start billing for your time, at rates competitive in the local market. You have builder-handyman types who attend, and who are willing to do the work and donate the materials.
They wouldn't submit me their content, they just wanted to talk obsessively about look and feel and how they wanted their nonexistent content presented.
More people would have been aware of the value because the budgeting and invoicing process would have touched more people. "I respectfully disagree with your disagreement.
Same thing can be said for your time. On the other hand, if I'm paid - even a token amount - I'm going to feel more responsible for doing what needs to be done.
I could always tell with almost perfect accuracy which students were paying their own tuition and fees and which ones were living off mommy and daddy or their employers. And I don't think it would have if the church had paid for it. I finally had to tell them I wasn't going to discuss presentation any more until they sent me their copy.
I think that church has a people appreciation problem. I did raise the question of a nominal payment for a minimum number of hours per month. Another instance was obvious to me when I was teaching college. that by paying for the site, a non-technical church staff would naturally value it more.
Even if the expansion is unexpected, care and consideration for the gardener, a person precious in God's eyes, is more important than a mixture of sand and cement. no we don't pay Sunday school teachers, ushers, etc. that by paying for the site, a non-technical church staff would naturally value it more.
It seems to me that the real underlying issue is a problem with lack of communication and too much bureaucracy in some churches. We're still friends, but they haven't written their copy, and their site is still "coming soon" after a year and a half. The project has, without doubt been a time hog; time I was and am giving freely.
and hoped they would provide me with a mere hyperlink.