Traditionally church buildings are the fullest during the holidays.  Attendance goes up as church members have family visiting for the holidays and those who don’t attend church regularly tend to go to a church service over more religious holidays like Christmas and Easter.

If you saw an increase in your regular attendance over the holidays, how did your church building hold up?  Was there enough parking?  Was every seat full or was there standing room only? Did you have enough classrooms for all of the extra needs?  These are questions to ask as you begin to reflect on 2011 and its highlights for your congregation and church space.

Building a church building or renovating a current space is a comprehensive decision for a church to make.  Answering the questions above can begin to shed light on the possible needs your church space might have in the coming years.  This could be finding new ways of how to best utilize your space as well as the possible need to plan for a new church construction project.

A new building may be in your church’s near or far off future.  As you reflect this New Year, calculate what building or renovating your dream church might take on our planning calculator.

We suggest not writing the check and also knowing your costs.

When you are planning a project or just investigating the needs of your ministries and congregation, you need to have clarity about cost. I could spend a month telling you about churches that have jumped into the project with no real data on the “True Cost” of a new project. If you are growing, the sanctuary is getting tight, there are no parking spots left and people are shoulder to shoulder in the lobby after service, your natural reaction is to investigate a larger space.

A church that does not know their design and construction options will hire an architect to program and design a new facility with no thought to the knowledge and experience of the group that will be building the actual facility. This happens all the time all over the country when churches design a facility first, and then send it to several general contractors to bid after the design is complete. A high percentage of these situations end in a project price that stalls or stops the project all together.

This very problem is why we use the proven process of design build. Design build process assures a solid planning phase that includes all the design and constructions professionals, with all the costs associated with their services. This insures there are no surprises and no delays in the completion of the building project. Bottom line, Eden Religious Facilities delivers a quality facility while meeting budget and schedule.

Try our cost calculator to get a good idea of what it might take to build or expand your facility.