How North Point Ministries Creates and Communicates Vision and Strategy
by Nathan Artt on Feb 27, 2020 12:00:00 AM
What Every Church Needs To Hear Before Taking On Debt
by Nathan Artt on Feb 19, 2020 12:00:00 AM
Debt is so commonplace it barely raises an eyebrow. Household debt recently topped $14 trillion for the first time. In 2012, bank foreclosures and defaults on loans for churches were at an all-time high. With a small percentage of average church attendees being active givers, how do y …
What To Know Before You Build A New Church
by Nathan Artt on Feb 12, 2020 12:00:00 AM
Building a new church is an important step toward growth. Many congregations will benefit from having a new and improved space. From sheer necessity to upgrades, church buildings require a lot of consideration. As you make decisions, there are several areas you will circle back to. Th …
5 Leadership Lessons for Multisite Churches
by Nathan Artt on Feb 4, 2020 12:00:00 AM
As the megachurch model’s popularity wanes, a new model is emerging. There are now more than 5,000 multisite churches in North America. Multisite churches can function in a variety of ways. In essence, they are a multi-campus expression of a single church. This means that a core group …
Leveraging Church Real Estate To Build Community
by Nathan Artt on Nov 21, 2019 12:00:00 AM
This interview was originally featured on The Nurtured Church podcast from Pushpay. To listen to the full episode, click here.
Are Mergers Changing the Church Landscape?
by Jim Tomberlin on Sep 5, 2019 12:00:00 AM
This post was written by Jim Tomberlin, lead author of Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work. Take the Church Merger Survey here.
Church Real Estate and Room Size
by Nathan Artt on Jul 26, 2019 12:00:00 AM
There has been so much clamor in the church world about the direction and the future of room sizes. Are we going to a microsite model? Are we going to home church? Is the right venue size 500? Is it 1,000? Not to minimize people’s passionate opinions on the subject, but thankfully, I …
A New Perspective on Church Buildings
by Nathan Artt on Jul 12, 2019 12:00:00 AM
If you have ever had a chance to get to know any real estate developers, something odd should stand out to you: none of them are construction guys. None of them are bankers. None of them are architects. The most successful developer I know who builds millions of square feet of Class A …
Five Reasons to Hire an Owner's Representative for Your Next Church Construction Project
by Nathan Artt on Apr 2, 2019 12:00:00 AM
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 …