Your congregation is growing and you're running out of room. Time to build a bigger facility? "Not necessarily!" caution architects Bowman and Hall. Featuring four new chapters, this updated edition of their commonsense guide helps you survey the motivation, needs, and financial status of your church so you can determine whether building is the next logical step. 176 pages, softcover from Baker.
Author: Eddy Hall
Located in: Goessel, Kansas
Submitted: September 05, 2000
Tell us a little about yourself. Ray Bowman (my coauthor) and I are senior
consultants with Living Stones Associates, a
church consulting team that works with churches
throughout the U.S. and Canada to identify and
remove barriers to healthy growth in the areas of
ministries, facilities, staffing, and finances.
What was your motivation behind this project? After Ray Bowman left his architectural firm where
for 30 years he had designed church buildings
(among other things), he began consulting with
churches. He came to realize that about 9 out of
10 churches that had contacted him thinking they
needed to build actually had a better, less costly
alternative. Most churches, he realized, were
making costly mistakes in building by building too
big too soon, or by building the wrong kind of
building--one that did not serve their ministries
as well as it could have.
What do you hope folks will gain from this project? This book enables church leaders to determine if
their congregations are among the 90% who have a
better alternative, and it introduces them to many
of the better alternatives that are available to
churches. This expanded edition of the book adds
a new preface, four new chapters, a new self-test,
and a new appendix to the original edition, while
updating the original material.
Anything else you'd like readers / listeners to know: Excerpts of the book, including several online
diagnostic tools related to facilities (the
Motivation Test, the Need Test, and the Financial
Readiness Test) can be found at
www.living-stones.com.
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