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Posted in Classroom, Growth Planning, Site Planning on Jan 23rd, 2007
Churches are notoriously bad at planning for the future. Much of our work comes from helping churches creatively adjust an existing facility that has become a “train wreck” due to a legacy of poor planning. Reactions to urgencies over a long period of time is the most common culprit. As an urgent need arises for a larger [...]
Posted in Classroom, Growth Planning, Location Planning, Site Planning on Jan 15th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Designs, Growth Planning, Office, Site Planning, Stewardship, Worship Center on Oct 31st, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Classroom, Location Planning, Site Planning on Oct 3rd, 2006
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. [...]
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