Nathan Artt

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Hiring For Your Next Church Building Project: Ability Over Proximity

Most pastors did not go into ministry to become real estate developers or financial advisors. In fact, there really isn’t much taught in seminary, if anything at all, about running a multi-million dollar operating budget or taking on a multi-million dollar church building project.

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Five Reasons to Hire an Owner's Representative for Your Next Church Construction Project

For almost every church in America, an expansion project, whether your first permanent campus or your fifth multisite campus, will be the largest one-time expense of capital in the history of your church. Because of the way churches do ministry, money inevitably has a tremendous impac …

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Funding Church Growth: Five Ways to Expand a Church Without Expanding Debt

Our team has worked with many of the fastest growing churches in the country, whose bursting attendance has led to a bursting budget, and often, an ever-increasing amount of debt.

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Multisite - From Startup to Self-Sufficiency

Starting a new campus is tough. Sustaining an existing campus is even tougher. But nothing compares to trying to keep a campus afloat when it becomes a big drain on the operational budget. It can really erode the excitement around your multisite ministry.

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Is Church Debt Good? or Bad?

Debt has become an epidemic in the church world today.

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Sometimes Church Growth Can Be A Problem.

Elevate Life Church, an ARC Church located in Oak Leaf (Jacksonville), FL, was the 6th Fastest Growing Church in America in 2017, according to Outreach Magazine. The church had grown from a few hundred people to over 2,000 people within a 3-year period, and was in desperate need to mo …

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Four Things that Keep Churches from Saying Yes to Growth

Financial leadership insights on things that keep churches from Saying Yes to Growth. In this video, Nathan Artt discusses the hurdles and hang-ups that keep growing churches stuck.

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Plan Intelligently For Church Expansion In 2018

One of the most exciting times for a church is realizing the need to expand. It means that you’re not only growing now, but have a vision to continue growth in the future.

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Essential Costs for Your Church Construction Project

So, your church is growing! This is a great, exciting season chock-full of potential to take your ministry to the next level. However, church expansion can also be a time when teams split, leaders get overwhelmed, money is tight and faith falters. How do you resist the urge to maintai …

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