ChurchDevelopmentServices

When we first met CDS, our church was meeting in a hotel conference room with the hope that one day we would be able to build a permanent church home. Fast forward seven years, and we are in our own building and have almost doubled in size while the hotel in which we had been meeting has closed. Glen recognized that our church was something special — even when local banks could not see (or fund) our vision. After listening to our vision and plans, Glen helped us by raising

A primary reason many church plans are never constructed is because a proper development process specific to real estate combined with attributes unique to churches is not followed. Church pastors and leaders are great at vision casting and creating excitement around a vision. This vision is then taken to a design firm, with not enough attention paid to cost or the church’s financial ability. Cost-effective design, where function has equal parity with form, is often not pro

Take a look at the 3D fly-though of the 43,000 SF, 2-story Gassaway Baptist Church that was completed back in 2014.

If you are wondering what Church Development Services is all about, please take a look at our 3-minute video that explains our services, our goals, and our mission. We can help!

Are you wondering what's been going on at Lighthouse Baptist Church? Take a look at Pastor Arcand's newest GO FORWARD video that shows us the storefront makeover ... nice!

A Capital Campaign will effectively raise money from within, and potentially outside, the congregation through an offering above and beyond current tithes and offerings. By joining intellectual and spiritual understanding with emotional involvement, a capital campaign will be a spiritually rewarding effort that will also raise substantial money for large capital projects such as construction, relocation, or renovation. A church capital campaign is about the spiritual growth t

CDS and its associates have the experience of more than 30 years and 500 church projects -- plain and simple ... we are church developers. We only work with design and construction having to do with churches and church-related facilities … we know cost-effective church design, and we understand how to work with churches. Candidly, this is no different than a team that has experience in other specialized industries like healthcare, multi-family housing, assisted living, fast

Here's a short video look at the interior and exterior of the newly completed First Congregational Church in Pomfret, CT.

Many thanks to all who submitted a bid for the First Baptist Church--your efforts are most appreciated by both CDS and the Church. We are currently in the process of evaluating all bids received, and we expect to make recommendations to the Church during the first week of March. Final review and decisions by the Church are expected soon thereafter. If, however, we find we have a question about your bid, or require additional information for evaluation, we will be in touch. S

As an elder at Spring Branch Community Church, I appreciate all the work that Kurt Werth puts in as the Chairman of the Finance Committee. I am a partner/owner of a medium-sized construction company (concrete) and I understand operations and finance, so I appreciate a good financial manager when I see one. Kurt brings a significant amount of financial management experience to our church’s finance committee and has done an outstanding job restructuring our debt, lowering our