Manufacturing and Church Plants: Match Made in Troy, MI…and Heaven
By Bill Clark January 10, 2019 Bill Clark is the CEO of Portable Church Industries. He joined the company in January of 2018 after a 22-year career in manufacturing. He also is the Executive Director of Hope Water International, a non-profit organization that provides clean drinking water to communities in Africa. Bill’s first experience with…
Read MoreRetaining Donors: Who doesn’t want more of that?
From our friends and partners at Paperlesstrans.com It can be discouraging to realize that your donors want to continue to give to your cause, but have found it difficult to do so-they give once and have every intention of giving again, but it slips their mind which creates an unintentional lost opportunity. Some studies show…
Read MoreValley 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…
Read MoreChampion 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…
Read MoreSeaside 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…
Read MoreFaithbridge 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…
Read More3 Things We Now Know About Church Planting Momentum
For many years, the common idea of evangelical church growth was centered around growing bigger – that is, envisioning more people coming through their doors. Some churches were starting new ones, and we can consider them the pioneers of the multisite movement. But the model has been changing rapidly over the last few years. More…
Read MorePartner Story: Faith Promise Farragut
When Faith Promise Church in Knoxville, TN, prepared to launch their sixth active campus, they were compelled to use a portable rather than permanent space. Much of the decision was made on value-based strategies that have been adopted over years of being a great multisite church. Renting is cheaper than leasing. And ministry can expand…
Read More6 Wins That Are Attracting Pastors to Portability
Our clients come to us with all kinds of inspirational, cool, and even fun, “crazy” ideas for their worship, kids, and community areas. And while portability has its unique challenges we’re thrilled those churches have made the valuable choice to be portable. Although portability can sound overwhelming and intimidating, we are here to let you…
Read MoreVisions for Launching – New Multisite eBook
What’s happening in the movement of multisite churches? Here’s one big thing: we’re seeing an increase of churches that plant new churches even in the relatively small domain of portable churches that we serve. But there is evidence of a larger, sweeping shift in the way pastors and leaders are thinking about starting their first…
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