All good church construction projects begin with a Master Plan. A Master Plan is the 30,000 foot view of what your facilities could look like. The master plan takes into account your current facilities, future facilities, topography of the site and many other factors. The following are 4 things to consider as your beginning the [...]
How To Build Your Church Construction Team – Competency
This is article number 2 on ”How to Build Your Church Construction Team”/ Click here to read the first article in this series and download the “Selection Matrix”, which is the basis for all these articles. You can also put “Quick Start” in the search field to the left and find all the related articles as we move [...]
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5 Things Great Lay Leaders Do
I recently began working with a church who has incredible lay leadership. As I’ve gotten to know them I’ve learned a few things about lay leaders and the culture every church wants to create. Here are 5 things great lay leaders do. 1 Support Publicly Great Lay Leaders (GLLs) support the vision of the church. [...]
Church Construction – When should you build?
How do you know when its time for your church to build? Here are four things to think about when you’re thinking about building. 1. Finances – obviously money matters when you’re building a new facility. Here is blog I wrote specifically on Church Construction and Money. 2. Max Facility Use - Do you have a document that [...]
The Principle of The Path – Andy Stanley
I’ve just been listening to The Principle of The Path by Andy Stanley again and I thought I’d share with you the key principle in the book. See my diagram here. Our attention determines our direction, and our direction determines our destination. Obvious stuff right? So tell me about your destination. Where are you heading? [...]
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Church Building – How To Choose The Right Team
Author and speaker John C. Maxwell always says “Teamwork makes the dream work!” If you’re lighting the fires on a building project, you’re about to experience the reality of that statement. Having the right people, in the right seat, will make or break your construction project and has serious benefits, or consequences to your church [...]
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Church Building Budgets – 3 Things You Need To Know
One of the first things we accomplish at Cogun when we take on a new client is to nail down the 3 church building budgets. Thats right…there’s 3 of them. Understanding Affordability is the Critical Success Factor in any church construction project. One of the biggest communication miss-steps is when the church says they [...]
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Andy Stanley On Confession
These are my notes from 3.27.11 at North Point Community Church. Andy Stanley and Jeff Henderson are in 6 part series call Life Apps. With so much pressure against us is so easy to fail morally. Confession is the key to prevention. So here are my notes. James 1:22 (NIV) Do not merely listen to [...]
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10 Reasons Building A Church Isn’t Like Buying a Car
10 reasons building a church isn’t like buying a car or anything else for that matter. A car can make you cool. Church made Steven Furtick cool, but not Perry Noble, so you can’t always count on church to make you cool. Churches gets better gas mileage – they’re wind powered. All cars play traditional [...]