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How to adjust to multiple services: 8 tips

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Church Growth, church planting, Church Strategy, Family Life, LEADERSHIP, missions, New Vintage Church, Personal, Preaching

December 3, 2014 at 11:33 am.

How can preachers make adjustments that better prepare them for the transition from one to multiple services? I’ve been a part of such a transition numerous times, and made the transition from two to three, and three to four. I’ve also had to make adjustments for seasons that included preaching live in multiple venues and multiple locations on Sundays. Each season required me to make adjustments — physically, personally and vocationally. While my experience is that the jump from two to three services requires the most adjusting — the jump from one to two services also requires substantial adjustments.
Here are some things I’ve found.

Designing Worship Areas: Laying the foundation

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designing worship areas, FACILITIES, sanctuary architecture, sanctuary design, worship space architecture, worship space design

December 1, 2014 at 9:00 am.

Beginning a seven-part series on worship space design can be a bit intimidating. There are so many avenues to consider, so many topics to discuss, and so many variables which can create completely different outcomes.The most important concept to communicate throughout this series is this: Every church is different. Each church has a DNA which must be honored. This DNA is made up of several factors, or lenses.

The stewardship of space

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church room dividers, flexible multipurpose spaces, maximizing church space, multi worship area, multipurpose spaces

December 1, 2014 at 9:00 am.

Common sense and economics dictate that if you can make better use of your church’s existing multipurpose space, you can avoid costly building programs. The result is more money to fund your growing ministries.

Multipurpose church design isn’t a trend — it’s a tradition

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Church Construction, Church design, church multipurpose, multipurpose design

December 1, 2014 at 9:00 am.

In the early days, when settlers would start a new community in America, one of the first structures they built was the church. Today, the tradition continues as more and more churches create their own communities within their local communities.

Church Executive Roundtable: Church Management Systems & Software (Part 2)

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church CMS, church software, church systems, management software

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

This summer — at the National Association of Church Business Administration (NACBA) annual conference — Church Executive hosted a live roundtable on a timely topic: church management systems and software. Several high-level ChMS executives joined together to share their expertise.

Good Steward Award Winner: Oklahoma Youth Camp (Sparks, OK)

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award winning church, Church camps, church facilities, good steward award, good steward church, summer camp design

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

A “Good Steward” Award recipient in the area of children’s / youth spaces, this Assemblies of God facility in Sparks, OK, has 16 modern cabins — each 6,000 square feet — with four large bunk rooms surrounding a central commons area.

How notification technology can deliver the Good News this Christmas season

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automated calling, automated texting, church calls, church communication, church management, notification technology

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

The Christmas season brings with it so much opportunity for warmth, fellowship and holiness. It also presents a host of other challenges for a church — sudden shortages of time, random acts of weather, a flurry of liturgical and other activities that fill your schedule, and sometimes the sniffles (or worse).
One of the ways you can leverage your and your staff’s time is by looking for tools and systems that are natural “multipliers” — including notification technology.

Engaging Spaces: Engaging from the get-go

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church architecture, Church design, church lobby design, engaging church design

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

For a church’s design to be effective, it must be engaging — beginning the moment someone walks through the door.

Award-winning multi-site staff management

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Church expansion, church management, church multi-site, church planting, Multi-site churches, multi-site management

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

Grace Fellowship Church has launched three multi-site campuses in the past five years. This process has involved two capital campaigns, vision-casting, site identification, site development and leadership training. Here, Pastor of Business Administration Bill Minchin talks about these developments.

Beware of inadequate limits of insurance

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church coverage, Church insurance, church insurance limits, church protection, Church risk management, insurance for churches

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

Insuring for less than full value is a common problem among churches. By “value,” I mean the replacement cost of a building, not the depreciated actual cash value or the market value. Underinsurance is common for several reasons.