Category: Facility
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Prevent Church Plant Sign Team Burnout
Putting out road signs and then picking them up after service every week can be a big job for your church plant sign team. You need to figure out ways to make that job manageable so that you don’t burn your workers out. I remember the initial excitement of being on the church plant sign […]
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3 Clever Church Plant Sign Strategies
Good signage inside your building and on the street can make or break a guest’s experience. Here are 3 simple church plant sign strategies that will help everyone feel welcome: Buy More …than you think you’re going to need. Remember the last time you traveled to or through an airport you’d never been to before? […]
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How to Design Church Plant Signs
Street signs are always in the top 3 answers when I ask planters, “What do people say when you ask how the heard about your church?” But there’s an effective way and a not-so-effective way to design church plant signs. Have you ever been driving and seen one of those homemade garage sale signs, the […]
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Insuring Church Plant Trailers
part 3 in a 4-part series on church plant insurance issues: You’re a mobile church and you tote equipment to and from your rented worship facility every week in a trailer. Even if you already have a church plant insurance policy, they don’t include insuring church plant trailers in the standard policy. Here are a […]
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Church Insurance without a Building
part 2 in a 4-part series on church plant insurance issues: Along with the government, the insurance industry seems to be hung up on church buildings. But you’re a church planter; how do you get church insurance without a building? You’re going to want church insurance sooner rather than later, even when it’s just a […]
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Why is the IRS Hung Up on Buildings?
part 2 in a 4-part series about Church Tax Exemption We know that the church is the people. It was about people from the beginning and wasn’t intended to be about real estate. So when a church applies for 501c3 nonprofit status, why is the IRS hung up on buildings? In 2010, I helped a […]
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Are Missional Communities 501c3? How the IRS Feels About It
part 1 in a 4-part series about Church Tax Exemption I have written before about how the IRS considers churches automatically 501c3 tax exempt. It’s how separation of church and state works in the Church’s favor. I’m sometimes asked, “Are missional communities 501c3?” What’s Missional Community Planting? The conversation about planting churches through a missional […]
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Leasing a Church Plant Facility
There is at least one fixed deadline during the year for leasing a church plant facility. Miss that, and you may find yourself in the ‘wait zone’ or scrambling to find a facility. I have seen both crazy antics and providential timing in planters’ efforts in leasing a church plant facility. One planter signed a […]
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Church Plant Postal Permit Filing Tips
Here are things I’ve learned over several years of coaching church planters through dealing with the US Postal Service. If you’re using direct mail as part of your Grand Opening announcement strategy, use these church plant postal permit filing tips: Apply Early It can take a couple of trips to your local USPS and a couple […]