Comments on: New Community | New Auditorium

By: Brad Hinman

Brad Hinman — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:11:20 +0000

Scott, my church added another service a few weeks ago. We had 20 to 30 families commit to attend the new service for 6 months. The first week we had around 250 people (including children). Just for comparsion, we typically have around 700 to 800 in total attendance for all services.

By: tony morgan

tony morgan — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:09:51 +0000

brad, we plan on 80% for budget purposes but our history is closer to 90% when we include non-pledge contributions; yes, we use long-term debt to help finance construction (tim & I cover that in SSS); we try to give contributors an update every couple of months to let them know what’s happening with the project, how lives are being impacted and how they’re doing with their pledge–part of the upcoming weekend series will be to communicate that to the entire church since we’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of our current campaign

By: tony morgan

tony morgan — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:05:27 +0000

scott, what specific questions do you have about adding services?

By: Brad Hinman

Brad Hinman — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:32:29 +0000

Thanks for the stats Tony. My church is about a year into a capital campaign and I’m curious about a few things. What percentage of the $6,000,000 pledged do you plan to actually receive? I believe that past capital campaigns at my church have been between 80 to 90 percent. Also, do you take on debt (short term or long term)? Finally, what do you do to encourage contributors to stay on track with their pledge? My church sends out quarterly update letters with the contributor’s pledge and amount given so far.

By: scott hodge

scott hodge — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:30:09 +0000

tony – this is helpful info. we are gathering stats right now to help us decide & plan on adding a third weekend service. (Any good pointers in that regard? There’s a future blog topic for you…) :)