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 […]

Yesterday, we examined Trend 1: Youth Facilties from 7 Biggest Trends for Churches by Church Business.  Today, we’ll be looking at Trend 2:
Multifunction, Multipurpose, Multi-Venue, Multi-Site
Victor Erwin says:
The satellite church revolution will become a viable option.  [Pastor] Ed Young’s comments are right on the money: You don’t have to spend a lot of money on these venues, but […]

Church Business recently published an article about this year’s 7 Biggest Trends for Churches.  They list the seven trends as:

Youth Facilities Still Top the Trends List 
Multifunction, Multipurpose, Multi-Venue, Multi-Site
Churches Must Act Like Good Neighbors
Remodeling, Renovation On The Rise
Traditional Design Elements Make a Comeback
Higher Land and Construction Costs
Building Community With Design

The experts they interviewed had some good comments […]