Strategic facilities planning, often known as master planning, is an anticipation of the facility needs over time, and a plan for implementation in a manner that is financially feasible. A pre-requisite to an effective master plan is to have a clear God-given vision for the future of the church’s ministry. See Ministry Planning- It Starts […]

The strategic facility plan should always precede the establishment of the first phase of design, so that the Church will know how this phase will work together with future phases. Attempting to develop this plan alone is not a good idea. The church should retain an expert architect/planner that understands churches and the nature of […]

Recently, WPH Architects for Ministry was interviewed by Your Church magazine to discuss what we see as up-and-coming trends in church facility development. So we thought it would be fitting to share this with you as well.
On several of our projects, we are seeing churches act as community leaders by initiating a mixed-use development. A […]