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September 28, 2009
Church Facilities Expansion Survey Results
An executive report
As part of an alliance between the Your Church team at Christianity Today International and Cornerstone Knowledge Network, the two organizations collaborated on a joint research project to better understand the growth in U.S. churches and its underlying factors.
This research aims to understand overall church experience and church plans for facilities expansion. It explores church growth in attendance, types of worship associated with the growth, and how churches are accommodating such growth. In addition, the study aims to compare respondents' reactions to different images of church buildings (both exteriors and interiors) to learn what types of design they would most likely create if they are going to build or design a new church facility in the near future.
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I commend you all on this study. As one whose ministry is to help churches raise funds I found it alarming that half of those that plan on building will attempt to raise the funds without a stewardship partner. I would have been interested in their reasoning. In my experience it is usually a price issue. However there have been wide abuses in my industry that has soured many on professional firms. Hopefully that will change.
It is proven that churches who attempt to raise funds on their own raise significantly less than those that use a firm. A layman told me just last month that his church tried raising funds on their own after using a firm on the first campaign. On their own they raised one million less! They saved a few thousand dollars to raise one million less.
I would be interested in others thoughts on this.
Posted by: Mark Brooks on October 12, 2009