Building a Church

Recognizing that real-estate development is not one of the strengths of most pastors is key to successfully designing and building churches. Church Solutions places great emphasis on educating today’s church leaders on the process of expansion to help prevent the numerous pitfalls that may occur in planning their next facility.The first major stepin building a church facility is preliminary design ...

Why should the Church consider sustainable design and development? To answer this, let’s consider the reasons behind the mainstreaming of green practices (a.k.a. "greenstreaming") in the secular business world. Today a "green tsunami" of activity is rising in real estate, design and development circles because buildings produce half of all global greenhouse gas emissions and account for 70 percent of ...

The unveiling had been spectacular. Everything had finally fallen into place. After three years of negotiating with the city about zoning restrictions, two years of aggressive fundraising, 18 months of arguing with neighbors who didn’t want a church in their backyard, and a five-time delayed construction process, the building was finally done. The excitement in the new lobby was palpable ...

If you are considering building, one of the best ways to keep multiuse space from becoming multi-useless is to determine the unique calling God has for your church ministry and how that plays out in facilities. It’s very easy to jump to a particular design first and then try to fit existing ministries into it. However, there is a process ...

For more than three centuries, the Church of Jesus didn’t possess its own physical place of worship. Our spiritual ancestors often met at the Jewish temple, in larger homes of fellow Jesus-followers, and in underground catacombs to escape persecution. Despite not having buildings, the early Church of Jesus grew exponentially and changed many aspects of human history.By the fourth century, ...