It all depends on your requirements and end-goals for both these sites. I would recommend writing a list of your top 10 most important factors in a platform, and measuring this list against any platform you’re going to select.

I’m biased towards using a blogging platform, especially WordPress. You can visit WordPress Tutorials and read the reasons why choosing WordPress as a publishing platform makes sense.

For your church, I would go through the same exercise. Do consider Ning.com (free – very low cost) and WordPress (free).

I just came across another publishing platform at Interspire.com called ArticleLive NX, which is an article management software, but looks very promising as a publishing platform for ease-of-use and being feature-rich.

Jackson, these platforms are just tools. What’s more important is your ‘needs’, and I’m confident one of the above ‘solutions’ will fill your needs.

Cheers!

I would like to create a website for my own and my church. Could you please give me a few tips how do I do that?
Your assistance would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

Jackson