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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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A successful church building program starts with clearly and objectively understanding the church’s real needs, financial ability, and overall feasibility of the proposed project.
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A church capital campaign is a spiritual endeavor that every church should engage upon for the spiritual and financial benefits. Typically will raise 2x annual income over 3 years.
Now available in paperback and as an eBook in PDF format, Preparing to Build is a practical guide to becoming prepared for a church building program. From concept to completion, your church will not undertake a more demanding or complicated task in terms of money, risk, and effort than it will in a building [...]
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Excerpted from Understanding the Needs and Feasibility Process Slide Presentation: The benefits of a Needs and Feasibility Study for any church contemplating a building program are multi-faceted. Here are some of the benefits as noted in the church needs and feasibility presentation on our website. Higher Level of Satisfaction: Quoting from the 2005 Rainer Group [...]
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Executing a church capital campaign is part science and part art. Some of the techniques that worked well in times past are not as effective today. There have been, and will continue to be, refinements and adaptation in the process of capital fundraising. Part of the art of the campaign is adapting those processes (the science) to a church’s culture, circumstances, needs, and time line.
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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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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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One of the most frequently asked question is “what does it cost per square foot to build?” The answer to that question is about as easy and accurate to answer as “How far is up?” There is no real way to answer the question of cost until you clarify several underlying questions. This is a [...]
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