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  It’s critical that you have enough parking spaces to accommodate your expanded church facility. Relying upon the municipal code is not practical. It won’t be enough. You need to plan the number of required parking spaces based upon your church building’s occupancy. Here is the way that we figure how may parking spaces you will need; or perhaps how […]

Many pastors don’t want to ask their congregants to donate money for expanding or relocating their church facility.  Why is that?  Is it fear that your expansion vision will be challenged?  Is it a fear of weak support?  Is it a fear that your members will flee to another church? But actually, your congregants want to be led to a […]

Over the past several years that we have been performing church expansion projects, we have observed various performance metrics that predict success. We have come to learn that for a church to successfully expand into a permanent, 24/7 facility for purchase, and to be able to raise the capital needed to acquire, renovate, and outfit the future facility with furniture, […]

Red Rocks Church (“RRC”) is just 10 years old and recently broke through the 10,000 weekly attender threshold, and in one of the most un-churched cities in America. Wow. Praise the Lord! What have been their keys to success? According to Eric Parks, there are several reasons why RRC has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Personnel Model.  One of their […]

Nearly every church begins as a tenant leasing space-most doing portable church. With limited resources, leasing is the only option. The decision to purchase only becomes relevant should your church continue to grow and become more stable and more permanent. Then it might be time to settle down. It’s at this time that a church should consider purchasing its facility. […]

Architects and Contractors play integral parts during the course of a new church facility project, but they are only equipped to handle a part or parts of the process and not the whole project.  Furthermore, it’s inherently impossible for either the Architect or Contractor to be completely unbiased.  For example, if the Architect is acting as the manager of the […]

Congratulations!  Your church is growing!  Now what? While this is a tremendous blessing, it can present some new challenges for your facility.  After all, you can only add so many services.  Redesigning and renovating your existing facility, if even possible, is difficult and disruptive of your current program.  Moving to or developing a new church facility is an enormous expense […]

There are four main spaces to consider when creating a new church facility or expanding your current facility – worship space, children’s ministry area, youth ministry space, and lobby. Carefully designing each of these spaces will allow your church facility to fully function and for your church to realize its potential! Every church desires to create a special place that […]

There are four main spaces to consider when creating a new church facility or expanding your current facility – worship space, children’s ministry area, youth ministry space, and lobby. Carefully designing each of these spaces will allow the church facility to fully function and for the church to realize its potential! So let’s talk about creating a special place that […]

You may have noticed that on the Community page of our web site, CFS has selected Denver Institute for Faith and Work (DIFW) as its current ministry of focus. Essentially, CFS financially supports the important work that DIFW is involved with bearing witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ in each of our places of work. We wish to announce […]

What’s the first thing someone sees as they enter the church, besides the parking lot – the entry, lobby, atrium, foyer or narthex, depending on your age or your denomination!  In early days, the entry hall was where all new members and guests would meet and gather.  Today it’s also true – the lobby is where all the “socializing” occurs […]

There are four main spaces to consider when creating a new church facility or expanding your current facility-your facility’s worship space, children’s ministry area, youth ministry space, and lobby. Underestimating any of any of these spaces will cause imbalance resulting in a facility that will under-perform its potential. For example, if there is not enough space in the children’s ministry […]