Does a building campaign change the way a church teaches stewardship? For our congregation, the answer is dramatic, but not in the way you might expect.
You see, for 15 years, our church did not own a building. Saddleback Community Church grew from a few people meeting in an apartment, to renting facilities in various schools, to meeting in a tent. Then in 1995, with over 10,000 regular weekly attenders, ...
ARTICLE Borrowing Trouble? A new Leadership survey reveals that most churches make some debt work to their advantage. Bruce Howard
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The church I attend has a problem—a good problem, but still a problem. We have run out of space and we're landlocked. These issues have been the grist for leadership discussions.
Elder Bob: "We need to face the facts! We have four worship services on Sunday mornings. We're parking cars bumper to bumper, but we still have to run a shuttle service to the public parking garage. And we're renting ...
On Pentecost last year, 850 gathered for worship beneath an enormous yellow-and-white tent on a church lawn in Falls Church, Virginia. Folding chairs were arranged in roughly the same configuration as pews in a planned sanctuary to be built on that site.
It was Celebration Sunday at The Falls Church (Episcopal), and for the first time in recent memory, the whole congregation worshiped as one. The co-chairs ...
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