As the year wanes and winter looms, we’re feeling a little reflective around here. Maybe it’s natural, or maybe it’s the onslaught of Spotify Wrapped stories on our feeds, but either way, it’s a good opportunity to look back on the year that was as we plan for the year ahead.

Here’s 2025 at Nucleus, by the numbers.

Our Makeover team has delivered 576 brand new websites (as of the writing of this email), with more than 100 builds currently in progress. It has been an absolute joy to work with churches from all over the world by building them a brand new website using Nucleus – all for free. Our Makeover campaign will continue into the new year, with all-new options becoming available soon.

There are 15 folks across two countries who make up the Nucleus team that shows up to serve you every day. We are just like you – current church staff, volunteers, and most of us youth group kids who grew up in church and continue to serve her through our daily work. It’s a privilege to each one of us to be partners in ministry with you.

Just this month, it was time for our Canadian division to invest in some new office chairs. Who knew that something as simple as chairs could cause so much unrest in a #general Slack channel? After much deliberation, we settled a stylish yet ergonomic option. We opted out of the back massaging upgrade, unfortunately.

*Almost every week, our in-house pastor and professional Nucleus user Alex Mills hosted a live class to guide you along the path of using digital means to engage in real life ministry. We covered topics like where to begin with Nucleus Web, a crash course on configuring a digital connect card, and most recently, how to build a Christmas landing page equipped with a Plan A Visit sequence. The Live Class will continue through 2026, refreshing with a new topic every quarter.

Over the last 11.5 months, our customer success team has engaged in over 38K conversations with admins and church members using Nucleus. Each one of these interactions was cared for entirely by a human on our team – no bots, no AI – just real people who work to help real churches. One of our team members in particular, Nathaniel, was responsible for 11,000 of those conversations, representing 3,191 customers. He also happens to be the newest member on our team…I didn’t throw him into the deep end, did I?

Across our shared Slack channels, we shared 260 GIFs this calendar year. That’s 1 per workday, and honestly, I think that volume is a little low. We’ll work harder to increase that number next year. P.S. did you know that Steve Wilhite, the computer scientist who created the Graphics Interchange Format, gave a speech at the 2013 Webby Awards arguing for the soft-g pronunciation? It’s GIF, like giraffe, according to the man himself.

Nucleus will celebrate a ninth birthday in 2026. The platform it will be by then is a far cry from the platform it was at the beginning. Heck, at launch the text on Nucleus Web typed backwards. We’ve made a lot of progress in that time and did a lot of great work this year, but our mission and vision has always stayed the same – we’re here to help churches share the message of Jesus while navigating the biggest communication shift in 500 years. That is our one goal. To do that, we’re making elegant software powered by an effortless experience that is designed to be used by the everyday church staff member and volunteer. We’re people first, always have been, and always will be.

So thank you, and I mean you. Thank you for choosing to partner with us in ministry this year. Considering the amount of conversations we’ve had in the last twelve months (refer to the metrics above), we have likely talked at some point this year. When we sit down to work each day, we have you and all of your church members in mind.

We’re praying for you, working for you, and we’re always in your corner.

This year was great, but we believe the best is yet to come.

– The Nucleus Team