Articles

Organizing Your Building Committee

Selecting the right leaders, assigning the right responsibilities to the right department, recruiting, training, evaluating, and retaining the working body are some of the keys to a successful church building project. The first step is organizing your building committee.

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Should You Go It Alone or Get Professional Counsel?

What Is Involved In A Capital Campaign?

A capital campaign is a one-time fundraising initiative over a long time span. Its purpose is to raise significant funds for the specific purpose of building a building, undertaking a major building renovation or expansion, or purchasing a major piece of necessary equipment.

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Designing a "Smart Building"

There are several attributes about this expansion campaign that are important to note. The first is that we need to be budget sensitive. As “going green” becomes the trend it is important to note that acting in a responsible way involves being a good steward of all our resources.

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Eight Key Procedures Leading to a Successful Church Building Campaign

There are many reasons for the church to decide to build. The community is growing, the church is growing, or church space is saturated. Whatever the reason the following process will help you develop and conduct a successful building program.

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Emmanuel Baptist Church

Emmanuel Baptist Church in Conyers, Georgia,was a church plant, a congregation begun in an area targeted by the Southern Baptist Convention as having need for a new church. Emmanuel started with just 20 members meeting in a small facility. As the church grew, however, more space was needed. In less than 24 months, 300 new members were added to the congregation.

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Common Mistakes

A church building project is a major experience in the life of an individual and a congregation. To a great many people this experience has opened new spiritual horizons and led to a deeper and closer walk with God. To some it has been a source of bitter disappointment, frustration, and deteriorated spiritual life. The difference in outcome does not just happen, it happens because of the planning, administration, and attitude of the entire project

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Delivery Methods - Which is the Right Way?

There are several ways for a church to contract for the design and construction of a new facility. Depending on size and scope of the project different solutions are more appropriate than others. Candidly after 300 projects it should become apparent which solution we believe to be most appropriate and why. Each of these delivery methods is recognized as being appropriate and nothing written is meant to imply anything other than these methods are different.

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