From the very beginning, our vision for our facility was somewhat unique. We said we wanted our facility to be used by the community 24 x 7. We were not going to have the kind of building where we lock the doors on Sunday afternoon and reopen the following Sunday morning. We wanted the kind of campus that people came to throughout the week for all kinds of different reasons. While I would acknowledge that most … [Read more...]
How To Increase Your Auditorium Seating Capacity
The Story Of How We Increased Our Seating Capacity By Almost 25% With One Very Simple Idea
It was during a Management Team meeting that one of the best ideas I’d ever heard was suggested. Shortly after moving from a movie theater to our 19 acre campus, into a building that was too small from the start, we were discussing our need to increase the seating capacity of the auditorium (multi-purpose space). At the time, we were able to seat up to 350. Of course we had increased the number of services to the … [Read more...]
Room And Resource Management
For a long time now we've been using Microsoft Outlook to manage our various meeting spaces and other resources. We've considered doing something else a number of times and have always come back to Exchange (Outlook) as the best tool for doing this type of thing. Well, maybe that was correct before, but it's not the case now. Are you aware of what Church Community Builder has done with their web-based church … [Read more...]