GroveStone Digital

Harrisburg, PA

Software and automation for churches and local businesses, built in Harrisburg.

See Ark Fix my website

For churches

Ark: sign up, forms, payments and kids check-in for churches.

In development · now inviting churches for our first pilot

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Register for Fall Campout, step 1 of 4: Eli and Caleb are both checked. 2 boys at $45, $90.00 total, and a Next: medical button. — 1Pick every kid at onceOne sign-up for the whole family.

The payment screen — 2Pay with every fee shownEvery fee is shown before anyone pays.

The leader's check-in list for Fall Campout, 9 of 14 in. Each child has one Check in button, and Eli shows a Peanut allergy tag. — 3Kids check-inOne tap per kid on the day, allergies in plain sight.

Sample screens from Ark in development. The church, families and events shown are made up.

For local businesses

Website fixes at one flat price.

One person, one price, no meetings you don't need. Pick what you need below.

Website rescue

$400

Broken, dead, insecure or phone-unfriendly site? I fix it or rebuild it as a clean five-page site.

Google Business Profile cleanup

$150

Hours, categories, photos, services, review replies and your first three posts.

Website answering bot

$300 setup

Answers customer questions 24/7 from your own info, collects name and number, and texts you the lead.

Missed-call text-back plus online booking page

$200

A customer calls, you miss it, they get a text and a way to book.

Invoice chaser

$250

Polite reminders by email or text until the invoice is paid.

Bundle: any two for 15 percent off.

Done in 48 hours

Delivered within 48 hours of your deposit.

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Flat fee, no hourly billing. Half up front by Zelle, Venmo or PayPal. The rest when I deliver.

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About

Hi, I'm Brian Grovenstein.

Founder, GroveStone Digital LLC
13+ years running stores, branches and venues
Based in Harrisburg, PA

I spent more than 13 years in operations and growth across retail, industrial distribution and hospitality. I took a distribution branch in York from about $650K to over $1M in annual sales in my first year, the first time it ever crossed $1M. I opened two restaurant and bar locations that beat their first-year sales forecasts.

GroveStone Digital is where that work turned into software. I build Ark for churches, and I fix websites and set up small automations for local businesses. Same habits as always: start with the numbers, keep it simple, and make sure it works for the person using it. I'm based in Harrisburg, PA.

Jerusalem Church at Ebenezer: red brick walls, green shutters and a white wooden steeple among tall trees — Ebenezer, Georgia. Where my family's story begins.

Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Story

Where I come from

Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church at Ebenezer
Effingham County, Georgia, a Salzburger settlement
Built about 1767 to 1769
National Register of Historic Places, 1974

My family were Georgia Salzburgers. My Pop, Harman, worshipped at Jerusalem Lutheran Church in Ebenezer, one of the oldest standing church buildings in Georgia. My Grandma, Alice, started Maranatha Church in her own house more than sixty years ago. They both rest at Ebenezer today. Building for churches runs in the family.

The church today

10 photos

Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church at Ebenezer: the brick walls, the steeple and the clock gable.

Tap or click any photo to see it large, with its caption and credit.

Front of Jerusalem Church at Ebenezer: red brick, green shutters, a white door and a white wooden steeple — The front and steeplePhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 4.0

Close view of the brick front gable with a round window, green shutters and a white door — The front, with green shuttersPhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

Clock face set in the brick gable just below the white wooden steeple — The clock in the brick gablePhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

Long side of the brick church with green shutters, the white steeple at left and a large tree at right — The long side and steeplePhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

Front gable of the church with a small clock, green shutters and the white steeple above — Front gable, clock and steeplePhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

The church from an angle, showing the front gable and the long side with green shutters — Front and sidePhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

White wooden belfry with a louvered opening and a weathervane against the sky — Belfry and weathervanePhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

The red brick church and its white steeple among tall trees on a sunny day — The church among the treesPhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

The white steeple rising above the brick church and green trees — The steeple over the treesPhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

The white belfry above the grey roof and brick walls, with pines behind — Belfry and rooflinePhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

1934

3 photos · Library of Congress

Black-and-white photographs made for the Historic American Buildings Survey: the church from the rear, and the interior with its pews, gallery and pulpit.

Black-and-white 1934 photo: the brick church seen from the rear through bare trees — The church from the rear, 1934Library of Congress, HABS · Public domain

Black-and-white 1934 photo of the interior: rows of wooden pews and the gallery along the far wall — Interior toward the south: gallery and pews, 1934Library of Congress, HABS · Public domain

Black-and-white 1934 photo of the interior: wooden pews facing a raised pulpit between tall windows — Interior toward the north: pulpit and pews, 1934Library of Congress, HABS · Public domain

The settlement

8 images

The Salzburger town of Ebenezer: an early town plan, a 1742 mill plan, Pastor Boltzius in an engraving and in bronze, the roadside markers, the Treutlen monument and an old hand pump.

Engraved oval portrait of Pastor Johann Martin Boltzius in a dark robe and white collar — Pastor Johann Martin Boltzius, engraved portraitJohann Jakob Haid · Public domain

Engraved plan of New Ebenezer: a grid of town lots beside the river, with a ship in the foreground — Early engraved plan of New EbenezerPhilipp Georg Friedrich von Reck · Public domain

Bronze statue of Pastor Boltzius holding a book, on a brick base among trees — Statue of Pastor BoltziusPhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

1742 engraved plan of a mill on a curving stream, with German text above — Plan of a mill at New Ebenezer, 1742Library of Congress · Public domain

Green Georgia historical marker titled The Town of Ebenezer — Historical marker: The Town of EbenezerPhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

White granite monument inscribed with the name John Adam Treutlen — John Adam Treutlen monumentPhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 4.0

Green Georgia historical marker titled Silk Culture at Ebenezer — Historical marker: Silk Culture at EbenezerPhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

Old green cast-iron hand pump on sandy ground under trees — Old hand pump on the town sitePhoto: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0

Photo credits

The front and steeple (also the top photo on phones). Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The front, with green shutters. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The clock in the brick gable. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The long side and steeple. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Front gable, clock and steeple. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Front and side. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Belfry and weathervane. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The church among the trees (also the top photo on wide screens). Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The steeple over the trees. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Belfry and roofline. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The church from the rear, 1934. Branan Sanders, Historic American Buildings Survey, 1934, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, GA,52-RIN,1-21. Public domain. Library of Congress record
Interior toward the south: gallery and pews, 1934. Branan Sanders, Historic American Buildings Survey, 1934, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, GA,52-RIN,1-22. Public domain. Library of Congress record
Interior toward the north: pulpit and pews, 1934. Branan Sanders, Historic American Buildings Survey, 1934, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, GA,52-RIN,1-23. Public domain. Library of Congress record
Pastor Johann Martin Boltzius, engraved portrait. Johann Jakob Haid, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Early engraved plan of New Ebenezer. Philipp Georg Friedrich von Reck, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Statue of Pastor Boltzius. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Plan of a mill at New Ebenezer, 1742. Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Historical marker: The Town of Ebenezer. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Adam Treutlen monument. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historical marker: Silk Culture at Ebenezer. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Old hand pump on the town site. Photo: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Changes: every image here was resized and saved as WebP and JPEG for the web, and some are shown cropped on this page. Nothing else was edited. Resized or cropped copies of the CC BY-SA photos stay under the same CC BY-SA license. The 1934 photos were converted from the Library of Congress master TIFF files.

GroveStone Digital and Ark are not affiliated with or endorsed by Jerusalem Lutheran Church at Ebenezer.

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