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Empower Your Volunteers and Avoid Burnout
We have all witnessed it time and time again: some of your best volunteers take a sabbatical. Whether it’s because they’ve been setting up and tearing down your entire sound setup for two hours straight every Sunday for six months, or they’re fatigued from the chaos of your children’s check-in system, there are several reasons…
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Dream Big in a Portable Space
At its core, to become a Level 5 Multiplying Church, you must plant churches—and many of them. While permanent facilities continue to be the dream of most church planters, the high cost, long lead times, and inflexibility of permanent facilities make them an impractical and unwise launch strategy. Thus, churches that want to multiply are…
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Portable & Permanent: Grace Community Church’s Vision
“We fundamentally believe the church is called to be a blessing.” These are the words of Derek Adye, Executive Pastor of Grace Community Church in Falls Church, VA. Last week, we shared how PCI built a combination permanent/portable solution for Grace when they moved into George Mason High School. Their purpose for outfitting the school…
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Sometimes, Portable Means Both Permanent and Portable
Grace Community Church in Falls Church, VA approached us with a challenge that is becoming more common: “We want to launch a new portable campus in a school, but we want to permanently install some equipment. Portable Church, do you do that?” Yes, we do. We have worked with over 2,500 churches to custom-design their…
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Free Resources for Portable Churches
In the past several years, we’ve talked with hundreds of portable church leaders, from technical directors to pastors to volunteer captains and more. We’re constantly amazed by the new challenges and ideas that come with unique projects. In 20+ years, we’ve not only watched the portable church arena grow, we have grown with it. That’s…
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5 Myths About Portable Churches… And Why They Aren’t True
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Deciding between a portable or permanent solution for your church facility? If so, there are a few myths that we know to be false. Check out our infographic to discover the truth about portable churches that meet in rented facilities. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
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Launch Strong: 5 Key Strategies
A record number of new churches are launching across North America. Most will initially choose to meet in a rented facility — often a school, movie theater or community center. While church is never only about the building, renting a space that works with your vision for the new church or campus is very important. Having helped thousands of churches launch strong…
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Finding a Venue for Your Portable Church Launch
Launching a new church or church campus this year? We know that finding the right facility is one of the biggest challenges you’ll face. Choosing to have church in a rented space, rather than build a permanent building, allows churches to engage with the community in a recognizable building and begin church in a space…
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Technical Solutions for the Trader’s Point Christian Church Satellite Campus
In 2015, Trader’s Point Christian Church in Whitestown, Indiana, northwest of Indianapolis, partnered with Portable Church© Industries (PCI) when they made the decision to open a satellite campus instead of increasing the size of their first campus. Brent Whetstine, production manager for Trader’s Point Christian Church, explained how the congregation decided on going multisite. “Opening…
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