Category Archives: Portable Partitions
Do you need help in managing the space in your growing church?
Your ministries are growing which is good news. But the bad news is that you lack enough separate areas to handle more Sunday School Classes, the new Day Care Ministry and all other programs common to growing churches. You do have large open areas in your gymnasium and fellowship hall. Can these possibly be utilized [...]
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Maximize the use of your space and budget by using room dividers
The good news is that you have done a great job in helping your ministries grow. More and more children are attending Sunday School more and more adults are learning in Bible Study. The youth minister reports that there are also similar gains in participation of programs for teens. The bad news is your available [...]
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INSTANT CLASSROOM FOR NEW COMPUTER LAB
The administrators at an Elementary School in Washington had just received a hard worked for grant to purchase some needed computers for the school. Their efforts were very successful, and now the hunt was on to find an appropriate space within the school where an additional computer lab would be housed. No space was available [...]
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IE “Space Mission”
How to create more room with adaptable partitions: Because churches are often open to their communities, most usually have at least two large open rooms. The first is the sanctuary where the congregation worships and holds various ceremonies. The second open room in churches is often referred to as a fellowship hall, family life center [...]
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Shift in attitude from homogeneous to heterogeneous.
As the younger generation ages, they will not recognize the homogeneous unit principal that was championed in the early years of the church growth movement. This principal states that people desire to worship in church with other similar people, and the best way to reach people, is with other people who are similar. The younger [...]
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A fundamentally different children’s ministry.
Not only will older adult ministries change, but children’s ministries as well. As diversity spreads out geographically, and preschools become more diverse, churches will prepare for a different type of childrens ministry. Specifically within predominantly white churches, ministry leaders will begin to think about how to accommodate for an influx from differing ethnic backgrounds. While [...]
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A fundamentally different senior adult ministry
With waves of boomers rushing towards the senior adult life stage, churches will need to adjust how they minister to the first suburban generation. Many churches are already experiencing the “I’m not part of that group” mentality with existing senior ministries trying to get older Boomers to join. In short, there is a generational divide. [...]
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An outreach ministry less dependent on new residents
Due to decreased domestic migration, some churches will need to become less dependent on new resident outreach. There are churches that have depended entirely on new residents for their outreach focus. Understandably, someone had to reach out to new people in the community. Unfortunately, these opportunities are not as great in many areas now. Local [...]
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Seismic change is coming to the church in a new demography
Staying put – for now. Within the industrialized world, the United States has the highest rate of internal migration. In other words, Americans move a lot. Domestic migration across state lines and to other metro areas, however, has slowed substantially in the last two years. In fact, across state movement has been sliced by more [...]
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Divide and Conquer