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Design principles for planning the church master
If you find a Bible, look no further than Genesis 6:14-22 to learn about the gods Master planning approach. Only through an extraordinary vision of God and smart planning that Noah was able to complete the task of building an ark big enough to save humanity. While this was certainly a task that great God, the principles are the same today. Thanks Noah, the Lord has been able to assess the problem, take stock of raw materials, and carefully implemented a plan to build a ship of three plants, capable of holding all species in the world.
Many churches are now faced with exactly the same kinds of challenges in planning the growth of their congregations. As the pressure may be the same, overcrowded facilities, new ministry opportunities, and / or the need for a fresher look, the challenges can be very different unravel the maze of legal restrictions, internal differences, the impact of code, and of course, do not forget financial challenges.
So let's take a look the four elements of a plan of long-term church director.
I. Prayer
When preparing to enter a building program, always start with a prayer. Jesus said: "I am the vine, ye are the branches, and you can not do anything unless you follow me." When assembling the committee structure project, establishing a committee of prayer to encourage each other, staff and congregation to bathe in the prayer of the project from beginning to end, and continue to lift each other in prayer while developing the vision of his church before his eyes. Make sure you are grafted into the vine!
II. Clear purpose
Before embarking on the construction of existing buildings, switching to another location or even the renewal of an existing space, it is important to carefully evaluate Church as it is. These key issues must ask ourselves:
• What is the purpose of our church?
• Which are ministries directly related to our basic goal?
• What departments are becoming faster?
• What is the main reason why we feel the need to expand?
• Are there other alternatives?
• What are our immediate needs?
• How will affect our long-term needs?
Understanding by church leaders to the future direction of the church, and support behind the long-term vision is essential in planning teacher. If you move every few years, you can find millions of dollars to get lost in a facility that is becoming an albatross or hindrance to his ministry as an architectural beauty.
III evaluation mechanisms
A first step in All Facilities Master Plan is the study of what already exists. Because the churches in general to expand their facilities for a period of several years and sometimes decades, it is important to review several areas that may affect future decisions.
• Environmental Impact Many facilities built in the 50, 60 and 70 are designed to asbestos and hazardous materials in buildings. It is important to know if you have any environmental risks that may affect your total project budget, or if sense to start the demolition or renovation. A more recent version that has emerged in recent years is the treatment of mold in buildings and issues of land as Spotted Owl Gopher tortoises, or even an old cemetery.
• Code of Impact – In recent decades, building codes have changed dramatically with new estimates of structural costs, supply of claims, impact resistance of glass, American Disabilities Act, the requirements energy, the security requirements of people and even the number of toilets available to members. Without adequate assessment, down a single wall could force you to go to the other side of the facility and conform to the code, which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so.
• Impact days parking One of the most restrictive of the church facilities is the number of parking spaces needed to meet the codes of the entire municipal administration. Although Many local authorities have a car 2-3 people each need, in reality many churches are experiencing a 1.5 to 2 people per car requirement, which may cause overcrowding and traffic problems in and out of the issues.
• Impact of the zoning by-hardening zoning allowances in municipalities throughout the country, one can not assume that your new property will be approved for zoning. Churches do not want them in residential areas because they generate much traffic. They are not in commercial areas because they do not generate taxes. And I do not want them in industrial areas because of potential health risks and safety. In other circumstances, if its growth exceeding 30% of the total area in square feet of existing buildings that may have to spend all his property by zoning procedures again.
Water Retention and Drainage • In many countries the issue of stormwater, wastewater, and how water gets stagnant, have become a major concern for many municipalities. In many places for several years may very well do what he wants with rainwater, and not really worry about by the amount of runoff affected its neighbor. But today, our municipalities are taking this very seriously and are very detailed drawings requiring engineering calendar to determine the impact of drainage, sewerage, utility connections, and environmental problems that could negatively affect the immediate area.
IV Identify the specific needs
Demographic
The first steps of a religious institution master plan may also include the collection and complete data analysis. Data such as demographics and psychographics, you begin to understand the racial demographics of their region, age, growth rates, socio-economic in the area, worship preferences, and preferences of the program areas in which your church serves.
Due to the spectacular growth of the two churches and regions they serve, it is important to try to predict his church growth based on historical growth in population in age, with future growth in the region. In many regions, it becomes a mirror of the area they serve. So if your area has experienced explosive growth and have been held with the growth of his church, it is reasonable to believe that your Church may continue to grow in the future. You might also consider a mapping service that will actually do as a member the Church and the map on which live according to their current facility or the area to expand, therefore, making it a better idea of where your congregation is becoming less.
The use of space
Your church may be one of the happy people churches are able to provide places of worship, schools, banquets and even for all members of his church. Without But it is increasingly important because of pure economics, for churches extends to two and three services on weekends and maybe a Friday night. For other departments they are having to rethink its Sunday school space, because it becomes too expensive for the church to continue with its population of Sunday school. Although there are certainly many churches are bursting at the seams and could not put another body in the building with a shoehorn, others are very willing to spend millions of dollars to provide a space for expansion do not really need. A simple re-organization of services, creating schedules, and hit a couple of walls, can make a difference in world, without additional cost to the church.
Proximity Space
You arrive on Sunday morning with her three years and seven years of a church new to you is 300 meters from the park of the children in your class, walk another 50 meters around the building through the rain to cast their seven years of age. Once crossing is made shoes in the mud property in its new to enter the sanctuary, and ultimately do it for you chorus take a breath, and try to sing "Amazing Grace" the button. How do you position your buildings, apartments, parking lots, trails, access roads, interior space, outer space, and future Main living facility can have a huge impact on the performance of your overall plan. Therefore, it is important to think about how you use each building and how you can help people who attend his church, and the financial consequences of these decisions.
The beauty and architecture
Have you ever tried to assemble a jigsaw puzzle 1000 pieces, not knowing what the finished puzzle should look like? That is what many of the church campus unexpectedly resemble a series of separate buildings they were thrown together to add different times by different people with different architectural themes to get to a point that all the pieces together, are not very nice the congregation. Maybe you should have a theme color stucco block of South Florida in Miami, but the ridiculous pace beside a cathedral in 150 years Boston, with a custom stained glass all replicas of the Last Supper before the Order Cathedral. Master Plan takes into account aesthetics, cosmetics, features and cost factors of a construction plan, and balances on paper before committing to shame, and community with an ugly building.
Phasing and implementation
There are very few churches in America who would not love to be able to respond to the vision of God and the next five phases of construction programs at once. However, due to economic factors most departments have to balance their vision given by God, his God given provision. Even Moses did not know he was embarking on a mission 40 years ago when the Lord gave Moses the vision of the promised land.
Likewise, God gives different views in all departments throughout the world, do not always have the necessary time and financial understanding to achieve the vision of our own strength human. We must be patient, we hope, we must trust in the Lord and the perfect moment. In the planning phase of the first phase of its project within the financial limits it has received, you are then able to build all stages once and for what the Lord blessed his department made to open the doors of the blessing with all money needed to complete all.
About the Author
Bruce Anderson is a nationally recognized church design and construction consultant and President of Build-Masters Group LLC,
www.build-masters.com
. Mr. Anderson also publishes of “Straight Talk” About Church Design,Building & Construction at
www.brucecanderson.com.
Email:
bca@brucecanderson.com
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