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Critical Mistakes Churches Make When Planning to Build

  Churches looking to build must learn how to be a good stewardship of the construction process. However, some lessons are learned tougher than others. In my 23 years of observation and experience in church capital expansion, there is one critical error that repeats itself over and over.  It is the reason why most church

Mobile Folding Tables Are a Versatile Furniture Solution for Churches

  Maximizing every square foot of your space is important when building a community. Transforming common environments for multifunctional use is easy with furniture solutions. With the help of a mobile folding table, spaces can be reconfigured to meet whatever the need is at a moment’s notice. Traditionally in event spaces, a folding leg table

Expert Tips for Gymnasium and Sports Field Design and Construction

  Your next sports or multi-purpose facility’s success will depend on careful planning, measuring, and communication. Here’s how you can keep your gym or sports field construction or renovation project under budget and still meet the needs of your diverse congregation. If you are a church pastor, worship leader, or church administrator, your life’s work

5 Church Design Trends Making Waves in 2024

  “Well, looks like we’re back in style!” Pastor Joel laughed as he looked at his 75-year-old church building in the middle of a quaint neighborhood. Huge, cathedral-like windows adorned the northern wall. A wide-open sanctuary with a highly vaulted ceiling welcomed worshippers and provided space for remote workers. Some repairs were needed, but the

7 Ways to Use Portable Staging and Risers to Impact Worship

  Churches are not just places of worship; they are vibrant community hubs where every event, ceremony, and gathering holds significance. Portable staging and risers enhance these experiences, offering versatile, dynamic solutions that cater to various needs. Add Space for Worshipers Including modular stages in church settings ingeniously expands the available space, accommodating more worshipers

Clear the Sound Pollution

  Are you tired of struggling with poor quality of sound during your worship services? Do you find it challenging to achieve clarity and even coverage in your audio system? Sound pollution is a common issue that plagues worship spaces. Destructive reflections and collisions of sound within the room can significantly degrade intelligibility, making it

Benefits of Wayfinding Signs

  Churches are central to the community. Custom wayfinding signs are essential to make these spaces more welcoming and navigable. Compliance and Safety Ensuring safety and compliance is critical to implementing wayfinding signs in churches. Custom signs must adhere to local, state, and federal regulations, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements. This compliance

Gloria de Cristo Lutheran Church Shines Brighter

  In sunny Yuma, Arizona, Gloria de Cristo Lutheran Church serves as a second home for many, whether they’re able to physically be inside the beautiful interior or not. With a congregation size ranging from 50 to several hundred, coupled with an outdated AV system, church staff knew they needed an AV setup capable of

How to Have a More Intentional Mission Trip

  By Doug Franklin Your mission trip has the potential to be a great and impactful experience for the community you’ll serve and for your students. But there may be a disconnect between your goals for your trip and your students’ expectations. While you (and your students’ parents) may be excited for students to learn

Holy Family Church

  W2A Design Group provided full architectural services for a new 18,000-square-foot parish center for Holy Family Church in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. The main component of this parish center is a new 240-seat, 5,000-square-foot banquet hall. The hall can be subdivided into a 1,400-square-foot luncheon room specifically designed to provide a more intimate setting for funeral
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