Here’s a few tidbits I gleaned from the Multi-site conference in San Diego the other week. First, when filming a teaching for use in another venue or location, use a static, front-on view, rather than trying to do a TV-like production where you are zooming in and out, panning the audience, etc. The static angle […]

Yesterday, we examined Trend 6: Higher Land and Construction Costs from 7 Biggest Trends for Churches by Church Business.  Today, we’ll be looking at Trend 7: 
Building Community with Design
David Evans says:
 ”Connection spaces are a big trend — it’s the ‘third place’ concept of how we can connect with people, spawned from secular society.  People can literally come to the […]

Yesterday, we examined Trend 5: Traditional Design Elements Make a Comeback from 7 Biggest Trends for Churches by Church Business.  Today, we’ll be looking at Trend 6: 
Higher Land and Construction Costs
Doug Akers says:
“We have to be competitive with what people are seeing in their everyday lives, and that means our facilities must be competitive.  That’s pushing up the cost of […]

Last week, we examined Trends 3 & 4 from the 7 Biggest Trends for Churches by Church Business.  Today, we’ll be looking at Trend 5:
Traditional Design Elements Make a Comeback
Mark Hilles says: 
“I think there’s a collision of thought about contemporary, non-discrete, commercial-looking, seeker-sensitive churches. I wouldn’t say there’s a lot of traditional pursuit of steeples and those kinds of traditional elements, […]

Yesterday, we examined Trend 2: Multifunction, Multipurpose, Multi-Venue, Multi-Site from 7 Biggest Trends for Churches by Church Business.  Today, we’ll be looking at Trend 3:
Churches Must Act Like Good Neighbors
Stephen J. Ferrandi says:
It used to be that if you wanted to build a church — not a megachurch, just a church — people didn’t fight you. And now, if […]