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7 deadly sins of being “unintentional” with your facilities

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church facilities, church facility maintenance, Church maintenance, church stewardship, church upkeep, Facility Management, facility stewardship

October 22, 2015 at 1:42 pm.

If you have read my blog for long or follow me on social media, you know that I have 100% embraced the word (and its meaning) INTENTIONAL. We call our initial visioning session the “Intentional Workshop.” We have developed the “Intentional Church Series” manual, and I use the hashtag #intentional with most of my posts.

I believe in being intentional … deliberate … on purpose.

An introduction to church facility stewardship

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church buildings, church facilities, church facilities managers, church facility care, Church maintenance, church management, facility stewardship

May 26, 2015 at 10:49 am.

I’m a firm believer that everything on earth belongs to God. Our money. Our houses. Our cars. The word of God. Our families. The people we encounter — and the facilities in which we worship. God has entrusted us with the stewarding of all these items.

For me, stewardship is less about what we give and more about taking care of what we have been given — of all that’s entrusted to us.

So, how do we define “entrusted”?

Project team member combinations to avoid

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church building teams, Church Construction, church facilities, church facilities management, church facility management, church project team, facility stewardship, project management

May 21, 2015 at 4:17 pm.

In the world of church facility construction, renovation and development, there are several integral roles and responsibilities that are required for every project. They might or might not be paid professionals for each role, but they are present and the responsibilities to the project are no less important. Here are the basics that virtually every project must have as part of the church’s team.

Performance bonds: beneficial or a waste of money?

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Church building, church building project, Church Construction, Church expansion, church facility management, Church Finance, church performance bond, construction financing, facility stewardship

April 17, 2015 at 1:03 pm.

For most of my professional career, I have been anti-performance and payment bond-oriented. To me, they seem like such a waste of money. In short, they’re just an insurance policy (although the Surety industry would say they are not “insurance” but rather a “guarantee” — semantics!) in the unlikely event the general contractor on a job is unable to complete the project (usually due to a bankruptcy or other major catastrophe related to the contractor). In theory, that sounds great. It almost feels like the proverbial “Get Out Of Jail” card. But is it really?

6 questions to challenge your church facility technical know-how

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church buildings, Church facility, church facility management, Facility Management, facility stewardship

March 9, 2015 at 3:43 pm.

If you haven’t intentionally committed as much time in making it one of the most efficient and effective operational systems as you have developing your network and IT infrastructure, you have missed an incredible opportunity to impact the financial status of your church. Also, remember that your facilities will have one of (if not the longest) life cycle of any other component of your operational systems.