Master's Plan with book

Designing Church Facilities Within Budget

Constraints don’t have to limit vision, they can unleash creativity. Most churches are excited and full of vision, so they engage an architect and start designing their dreams and desires. They take those dream concepts and renderings and show their congregation.  Now everyone is excited! Then they pay to fully develop a set of construction

Christ Chapel

The Christ Chapel project is a design-build collaboration between Homoly Construction and WSKF Architects. Christ Chapel is a growing faith community in Platte City, Missouri, focused on worship, instruction, outreach and service. All of these elements were under strain in the existing facility and growth was limited. The new project spans about 8,500 square feet

The Correct Approach to Funding Church Vision

Church vision is the driving force for all growing churches. What is the vision and direction God is leading your church? Vision can lead to church growth and that growth can lead quickly to the need for facility expansion. However, expansion necessitates financial investment. This is where most churches start to feel that pull into

Lakeland Community Church

Creating a space that serves both a congregation and the wider community is no small feat. Lakeland Community Church in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, partnered with Catalyst Construction to bring this vision to life, resulting in Lakeland Park—an indoor play area that has welcomed over 100,000 visitors in just two years. This project exemplifies how strategic

Pleasant Valley Community Church

  Pleasant Valley Community Church (PVCC) in Owensboro, Kentucky, started in an old warehouse in 2006 with a small group of 20 believers who stepped out with enormous faith in the work they believed God was calling them to do. They hired Jamus Edwards to lead this new church. As the people of Pleasant Valley

Winterset Community Church

  Winterset Community Church in Winterset, Iowa, wanted a larger gathering space for the local community, so they decided to add a gymnasium to their worship building. The addition had to be built quickly while the church was still in use, blend in seamlessly with the existing structure, and offer high noise protection between the

Eagle Brook Church

  Eagle Brook Church (EBC) and BWBR partnered to renovate the former River City Baptist Church in downtown Minneapolis. EBC selected this site as an opportunity to be in the lively downtown area and to keep the property in the church community. Originally built in 1885 with significant additions over the past century, the existing

Trinity United Methodist Church

  Looking forward to providing the next generation with an effective home for worship and fellowship, the renovation and expansion to Trinity United Methodist Church in Homewood, Alabama, provides critical upgrades throughout the entire campus. An infill building of new construction provides expanded children’s education rooms and gathering area on the lower floor with the

Renovating Churches: People, Partnerships & Pitfalls

  Unlike many commercial building projects that can have a single owner, church renovations are often discussed and decided by committees. It’s important to remember how many people are involved and how many people are affected. Pastors, parishioners, employees and volunteers will all want to have a say in the design and the budget. That’s

Orchestrating a Successful Building Program

  Through wisdom is a house is built, and through understanding it is established. –Proverbs 24:3 Living Stones Church in Crown Pointe, Indiana, (located less than 50 miles outside of Chicago) needed a stewardship initiative to raise significant capital for their much-needed expansion. They wanted the effort to feel like their culture and seize on