How a Perfect Storm Sent Church Insurance Rates Skyrocketing
The same factors that have caused a crisis in the homeowner's insurance market are also affecting churches, who have to choose between paying for insurance or running programs.
What’s Going Wrong in Your Church Building While You’re Gone?
Closing down church buildings could create serious repercussions not just for the people who miss gathering there but also for the facilities themselves.
Former Cape Girardeau Baptist Building Up for Sale
The Church of the Rescued and Redeemed, formerly known as Red Star Baptist Church is for sale. In a neighborhood plagued by periodic Mississippi River flooding, “right now our church is one of the last big structures in the neighborhood,” said Billy Garner, the church’s pastor.
‘Beyond the Walls’ Church Missions Increasingly Start Within
(RNS) — When First Congregational Church of Bellingham built a new sanctuary in the mid-2000s, it wanted to be sure the facility would be used all week long and not just on Sunday.
Redesigning Sacred Spaces to Serve Their Communities — and Save Their Congregations
PHILADELPHIA (RNS) — the crowd at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture was packed in, clergy shoulder to shoulder with architects, ordinary citizens with community organizers. They gathered to see the results of Infill Philadelphia, a design competition hosted in the city to improve community spaces.