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Archive for the ‘Building Design’ Category
The Forgotten Few Minutes Before Church
What happens when a visitor sits down in your worship space in those few minutes before your service starts? Are you creating an experience that fits your values and brings ...
Office Hours: Conferences & What’s Exciting
Our own Justin Wise has online office hours and takes your questions. This week he talks about church conferences and three things he's done in the past year that were ...
Office Hours: Church Signs & Facebook
Our own Justin Wise has online office hours and takes your questions. This week he talks about effective church signs and examples of churches using Facebook.
An Environment Worth Sharing
How is your church creating a worship environment worth sharing and returning to? Visual worship expert Camron Ware shares his experience with local churches and challenges us to do more.
$5 Million Bridge to Somewhere: Tie it to the Purpose
Church building campaigns can be hard for congregations to swallow. But how about building a $5 million bridge to ease parking congestion for a church? That’s what North Point Community ...
Abercrombie & Church
The September 14 print edition of Fortune magazine had an article (no link) by Beth Kowitt on how mall owners have been thinking “outside of the (big) box” when it ...
A Church Helping The Church
Uprising Church is uprooting itself from its current meeting space at YMCA and moving … to Sunday nights only. Now, honestly I think I’d miss church on Sunday morning and at ...
Friendly Reminder: Check Your Carbon Monoxide Detector
At a church in Atlanta, a dozen people had to be taken to the hospital recently due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Now surely, no one meant for this to happen. But ...
Building Momentum for Building a Church
If you’ve ever been in the midst of a building campaign for your church, you know that raising money for it sucks about 83% of the time. You have to ...
Moving Church Outside
Well, we’ve discussed whether church buildings suck before. We’ve talked about whether you put a little money or a lot of money into a building. Here’s a new one: Don’t ...
Where Should A New Church Meet?
We’ve talked here on CMS before about church buildings. Recently Drew Goodmanson referenced an article by Dr. Ed Stetzer called “Where Should A New Church Meet?”…
Church Building Sucks
Here’s a post with no answer. I was browsing through a list posted by Andy at Think Christian, and he linked to Neatorama’s post, 10 Divinely Designed Churches. This stirred ...
Post-Holiday Linkfest
My post-holiday recovery never quite happened, thanks to the fact that my family is trying to sell our house. So I’ve got a pile of links I haven’t had time ...
Poddy Talk
Earlier this month, a colleague and I toured the facilities of a church in Los Angeles County. The church property was tucked away in a residential area, had decent parking, ...
The History of the Church Pew
Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, Calif. just moved to a new building and they have a peculiar problem: Pews. Vintage Faith is an emergent church where pews and a ...
