Case Studies
Real churches. Real solutions. Discover how PCI helped them launch, grow, and thrive in portable spaces.
Valley Christian Church
Movie Theaters for Churches? Yes! Valley Christian Church’s leadership team needed a new campus and chose to meet in a movie theater. Partnering with Portable Church Industries, they found that the theater provided a comfortable, familiar environment for families and offered more space for children’s ministry than traditional portable venues. Location, Location, Location Karen Johnson,…
Calgary Life Church: How To Go From Permanent to Portable Church
In this case study, a church in Alberta had the perfect situation. They had a lease with an old movie theater that allowed them to update the building to suit their needs. Discover how they pivoted when they were given notice and needed to go portable.
Church Live Video Streams Weekend Service from Remote Location
City Light Church broadcasts their weekend service from a warehouse With the reductions and restrictions of large gatherings over the past week, churches all over the world have been forced to create a space for their church family to gather together on the weekend, without physically being next to one another. For portable City Light…
The Kryptonite of Multisite Momentum
Sustaining Multisite Momentum When You Have a Big Vision “Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!” “Look! Up in the sky!” “It’s a bird!” “It’s a plane!” “It’s Superman!” This could be heard at the beginning of every adventure of our superhero. He…
Valley Christian Church
VALLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH Case Study MOVIE THEATERS FOR CHURCHES? YES! When the leadership team at Valley Christian Church in Poughkeepsie, New York, decided to launch a new location, they looked at a lot of options before deciding on the perfect location for kids and parents alike, a place that was already at the center…
Champion Forest Baptist Church – North
Champion Forest Baptist Church – North Case Study TECHNOLOGY HELPS TRANSFER LARGE CHURCH DNA INTO PORTABLE CHURCH SETTING Champion Forest Baptist Church has a beautiful, technologically advanced 600,000 square-foot facility in Houston, Texas where more than 6,000 people come each week. But when the leadership team decided to launch a portable, multi-site church campus…
Seaside Community Church
Seaside Community Church Case Study HOW DOES A CHURCH THAT MEETS IN A MIDDLE SCHOOL TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL? Seaside Community Church of Huntington Beach is a congregation that gathers each week in a unique ocean-side location in southern California as they have for more than two decades. However, when a building…
Faithbridge Church – The Woodlands
Faithbridge Church Case Study HOW TO LAUNCH A PORTABLE CHURCH WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MINISTRY FOCUS Launching a multi-site church campus is a lot like preparing to take a flight in an airplane — if you ask Wayne Risher, Campus Pastor at Faithbridge Church (Woodlands). You can either invest your time in designing and building the…






