Building a church building? Here is a blueprint for a successful church building program.
Why start with helps for those who are planning to build? Keep reading as we share real life examples and I think you just might gain an understanding. One church failed to build after investing well into six figures during the planning and design phases because they did not count the cost correctly. Part of the site cost was left out of the project budget. A seeming simple omission killed this project. The church lost their pastor and they have not built to this day. Ministry Leader, are you willing to lose your ministry over a building program? Do you think you are fully prepared to succeed? How often have I heard ministry leaders assure me they have everything under control and they think they can handle everything themselves. But did you know the average tenure of a senior pastor after a building program is 18 months? That is disturbing but not surprising really. Pastors are trained to lead their congregations in spiritual growth. They don #39;t have the background or education to oversee a large commercial construction project. I can site example after example of church building projects that go horribly wrong at some point in the process. A church in the Southeast United States hired architects to design the building and spent $800000 for a set of plans. Unfortunately the plans were over designed, too expensive to build and had to be scrapped. An additional $500000 was spent on new plans. I could write a book full of examples of churches and leaders that had everything ...From:M HartmanViews:5 1ratingsTime:17:27More inEducation

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