Church Development Services (CDS) has over 30 years of combined experience as a church expansion specialist, and I am in my 9th year as the CEO. If I can be candid, seeking and getting wise counsel is more important now than at any time in my professional career. Regulations are becoming more onerous every year, environmental departments of local and state jurisdictions are becoming more powerful and restrictive, banking regulations have made it more difficult to access money and with the "great recession" behind us, cost control is more challenging. Proverbs says "Listen to wise counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days. There are many plans in a man's heart, nevertheless the Lord's counsel - that will stand." (Pr 19:20-21 NKJV)