The Mary Mother of God Catholic Church, Oakville, ON
FACILITIES Friday, August 1st, 2008
A church in Oakville, ON, provides a strong Catholic presence and fulfills the town’s planning objectives.
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An accurate inventory is essential to emergency preparedness
RISK Friday, August 1st, 2008If fire were to strike your sanctuary tomorrow, could you tell an insurance adjuster exactly which items were lost? Take this test:
Is there a Scriptural mandate for corporate worship?
LEADERSHIP Friday, August 1st, 2008How do churches adapt in a world that is changing on a daily basis? With an estimated two billion people globally claiming to be Christians, it is no wonder that the challenge for churches to reach this generation is to engage different cultures, genres and personalities to remain effective.
Efficient church bookstores function as outreach ministry
FACILITIES, Operations Friday, August 1st, 2008Bookstores have long since been a tool for churches to use in order to further their members’ spiritual education and encourage outreach.
Church leaders must set the tone for effective internal control
FINANCE Friday, August 1st, 2008As church congregations and budgets grow, the potential exposure to fraud and other illicit behavior grows as well. Larger churches would be well served to consider steps that other nonprofit entities have taken to tighten their internal control environments.
A concrete cathedral is designed to achieve acoustic excellence
FACILITIES Friday, August 1st, 2008
There are many challenges to achieving great acoustics in a sanctuary, and the 1,820-seat, 32,000-square-foot sanctuary of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, TX was certainly no exception.
Why the church is losing men and boys and why it matters
SPEAKING VOLUMES Friday, August 1st, 2008In the early 1950s, attendance in Protestant churches in the U.S. mirrored the postwar population: 52 percent female, 48 percent male. Today the typical U.S. worship service draws an adult crowd that’s 61 percent female. Many mainline congregations are two-thirds women. No other religion suffers such a huge gender disparity.
Receive funds for your church project at three points less
FINANCE Friday, August 1st, 2008If you could finance your next large construction project at three points less than a commercial lender would ordinarily charge without additional risk or gimmickry, wouldn’t you do so?
How to secure project financing in an economic downturn
FINANCE Friday, August 1st, 2008“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … ,” wrote Charles Dickens in his classic, “A Tale of Two Cities.” You don’t need an advanced degree to see that these are difficult economic times. In spite of that, many churches around the country are still growing and looking for creative ways to manage that growth.
Churches can guard against the threat of cybersquatting
RISK, TECHNOLOGY Friday, August 1st, 2008My son sees me on the computer regularly and continually asks, “Can I go on the computer too?” He’s already using the Internet on a limited basis at school, so it seemed like a logical next step for him to click, drag and drop at home.
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