Is there a tutorial?

I am trying to have a little bit of static welcome text on the home page

Hi Gazoo, I’ve just had a discussion with someone who accomplished this. That person created a widget for the home page and then told the home page to output data inputted to that widget.

The discussion is here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/adding-a-fixed-text-area-on-the-homepage

The steps involved are:

1. Create a Child Theme
2. Copy index.php from the Spun theme and paste it into your Child Theme directory
3. Edit index.php from within your Child Theme and find this line:

   get_header(); ?>

4. Just underneath it add this code:

   <?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'homepage_widget' ) ) : ?>
    <ul id="sidebar">
    <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'homepage_widget' ); ?>
   <?php endif; ?>

5. Create a functions.php file in your Child Theme directory
6. Assuming your Child Theme functions.php file is blank add the code from this PasteBin page into it: https://pastebin.com/sj77iDAz

You may want to get rid of the <ul> on step #4.