Church Design

There’s No Right Way to Build the Wrong Thing

There’s No Right Way to Build the Wrong Thing

Unless you know the right questions to ask, you have no way of knowing if what your church is planning to build is the right thing or not. As I have probably said several hundred times, “answers are easy, it’s knowing the questions to ask that is hard.” Knowing what questions to ask, and asking […]

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Church Needs and Feasibility Study

Church Needs and Feasibility Study

According to Wikipedia, a feasibility study is a preliminary study undertaken before the real work of a project starts to ascertain the likelihood of the project’s success. The needs and feasibility study is an analysis of possible alternative solutions to a problem and a recommendation on the best alternative whether for new church construction, renovation, expansion, […]

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How to Build a Church

How to Build a Church

How to Build a Church In 5 Steps Learning the steps of how to build a church is not hard.  Learning how to do those steps the right way takes a great deal of experience. An associate in church design and construction remarked that having been involved in over 400 building programs, there was one […]

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Benefits of a Needs & Feasibility Study

Benefits of a Needs & Feasibility Study

The benefits of a Church Needs and Feasibility Study for any church contemplating a building a new church, church expansion, or relocation are multi-faceted. The church should carefully weigh the benefits of careful preparation for a building program – because it will have to live with the results for a very long time. Here are […]

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Low Cost Church Building Plans

Did you ever wonder how many thousands of church building plans have been drawn by architects over time, but when a church needs a set of building plans they have pay to have their church plans drawn from scratch? The answer is, they don’t have to! I want to begin this article by saying that sometimes churches […]

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Our Ministry to Your Church

. Develop Consensus .. Reduce Cost and Risk … Raise Money for Building …. and much more Your church will never undertake a task that is more demanding or complicated in terms of cost, risk, and effort than it will in a church building program – We are here to help.

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Characteristics of a Wise Builder

The problem with learning from your own mistakes is that it can be very painful, and sometimes expensive. This is especially true in church construction. In building a church, mistakes can be very costly, and not just in terms of money. While a mistake in construction or financing can end up costing the church tens of thousands of dollars, mistakes can also have other very serious consequences.

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Our Church Consulting Services Ministry

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Our pupose is to minister to your church in its efforts to plan for, and implement, a church building program or capital campaign as a tool expand ministry effectiveness.

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Needs & Feasibility Presentation – Recorded Webinar Now Online

As a volunteer church building consultant for the Congregational Services Group of the NC Baptist Convention, I recently delivered a live webinar on the topic of conduction a church needs and feasibility studies as one of the first steps in a church building program.  You may listen to, and view, this presentation online as it […]

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The Most Asked Question in Church Construction

“How much will it cost to build the church?” is by far the most asked question we receive. This is a very important question, and one worthy of an accurate response. Everyone wants to know how much it costs per square foot to build a church. The REAL answer is this: All I or anyone […]

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