Once again, I’m off to the WFX Conference to give the Multi-purpose & Expandable Worship Center workshop. I’ll have a bit more time to share than last fall, which is good because we have a ton of information on the topic. The presentation also now has an increased emphasis on the Green aspect of multi-purpose worship centers. And a final enhancement for now is that the prototype multi-purpose Worship Center design for New City is nearing completion of construction, so I’ll have some updated photos to share. (When I give this workshop again in the fall, New City will be completed and we should have some great photos showing the transformation of the space!)

While I’ve written for the blog and our Newsletter previously about multi-purpose worship centers, I have not written much on expandable worship centers. As I thought about it, I realized that we are doing many more expandable ones than multi-purpose. Dedicated worship centers tend to cost 30% to 40% more than equivalent seating capacities in multi-purpose. Recognizing that a church puts a lot of money into a dedicated Worship Center, we use this concept to enable the church to keep growing with much greater economy, as well as much less disruption to on-going operations. The basic concept is that you push out the walls to add more seating. (In actuality, it is the other way around - construct the additional seating and then remove interior wall.) We have about a half-dozen of these already constructed and another dozen or so currently in the design phase. Interested in knowing more about this concept? After the workshop, I’ll post the presentation on our ChurchArchitects.com website.

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