Preparing to Build – Book Overview
This is likely to be the best investment you will make in your entire church building program. A trivial investment to save the church time, effort, stress, and potentially tens of thousands of dollars.
- 3rd Edition
- 200 pages, with Illustrations
- Forward by Dr. Paul Smith
- 3 Appendices, including a readiness assessment
- Available in paperback and eBook form
- Preview: Table of Contents, Forward, Preface, and Chapter 1 - (pdf)
Preparing to Build is a comprehensive guide to preparing for a church building program. As a book on church construction it is a ‘must read’ for any church that is planning on building a church anytime in the next one to five years. We encourage you to read some of our testimonials…
Preparing to Build will help your church…
- Understand practical guidelines for church construction.
- Understand the proper steps in a church building program.
- Understand what the church can reasonable expect to borrow.
- Describe how to develop a preliminary church construction budget.
- Understand what to expect from a church capital campaign.
- Understand how to evaluate architects and builders.
- Understand various church financing options.
- Avoid common mistakes and pitfalls in church design & construction.
- Understand various methods of contracting for construction.
- Determine your readiness to build through the included assessment.
As a result your church will…
- Move forward with confidence.
- Save money in church design & construction.
- Reduce the amount of time & effort you will have to invest.
- Reduce the amount of the stress and worry.
- Reduce uncertainty of what to build and why.
- Properly equip your leadership and building or long range planning committee.
- Be more satisfied with the outcome of the building program.
Topics Covered (partial list)
- The role of vision and mission in a church building program.
- Determining project feasibility.
- Ascertaining needs and separating them from wants.
- Financial preparedness.
- Financing church construction.
- Raising money to build – the church capital campaign.
- Things to consider when searching for a church architect.
- Church construction contracting methodologies.
- Church design & construction guidelines.
- Church construction contracting methodologies.
- Church construction contracting methodologies.
- Church construction contracting methodologies.
