When Not to Build: An Architect's Unconventional Wisdom for the Growing Church - Softcover

Ray Bowman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801010314 ISBN 13: 9780801010316

Publisher: Baker Pub Group, 1992

Synopsis

Wise insight on building a church, growing a church, and keeping costs low. For pastors, leaders, and building committees.

About this title

From the Author

Most churches thinking of building have better alternatives.
After 30 years as a church architect and almost 20 as a church facilities consultant, Ray Bowman estimates that 90% of the churches that contact him thinking they need to build have a better alternative--one that requires less of the churches time, money, and energy. Since turning consultant in 1980, Bowman has pioneered a new way of thinking about, using, and modifying traditional church buildings so that a congregation that uses his approach can usually grow to three times or more the size for which the building was originally designed before needing a major building program. This book describes this revolutionary approach to church facility planning giving many examples of how churches are putting these concepts to practical use. I worked with Bowman for ten years as his writer (and coauthor of this book as well as its sequel WHEN NOT TO BORROW) before joining Ray as an associate in his church consulting work. I am now putting these concepts to use in my work as a full-time church consultant and can testify from my own experience that they really work. This book, published in 1992 and now in its sixth printing, is changing how North American churches think about, use, and pay for church buildings.

About the Author

Ray Bowman, a church growth consultant, resides in Larkspur, Colorado. Eddy Hall, a freelance writer and editor who joined Bowman as an associate consultant, lives in Goessel, Kansas. Bowman and Hall are also co-authors of When Not to Borrow, and their articles have appeared in Leadership, Your Church, Ministries Today, and Clergy Journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Baker Pub Group
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801010314
• ISBN 13: 9780801010316
• Binding: Paperback