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Tips for Smart Portable Video
Smart Portable Church AVL - Video Video is designed to enhance the audio of your worship experience; video helps make the audio experience better. And, since the spoken word is the most important piece of your worship experience, video acts to create interaction...
Celebrating 25 Years of Design & Innovation
As of this month, Portable Church® Industries (PCI) has been crafting innovative, intelligent effective mobile church systems for 25 years. Before the company started, the idea of having a worship service in a space that wasn’t a church building was not a...
Vlog: Tips for Smart Portable Audio
Smart Portable Church AVL - Audio Portable Church® is a design and build company providing full intelligent systems crafted around you visions, dreams and budgets for audio, video, lighting, kids, and community. This blog specifically addresses smart portable...
Vlog: Excellence in Portable Churches
Production excellence in portability While teaching at SXSW, our friend and Portable Church client, Carey Nieuwhof, recently wrote about 7 things he learned about how the world is changing (again). He goes on to put this into the perspective of the church. He says...
5 Ways Churches Can Bless Moms on Mother’s Day
Who doesn’t love Mother’s Day? It is the one designated day when we get to pamper our moms and try to thank them for just being so awesome! And it is almost that time of year again! Did you know that Mother’s Day is the third most likely day - after Easter and...
Vlog: 19 Things to Check Before Signing Your Church Rental Venue Contract
Being in the business of portability, there are a few things that we have picked up when it comes to working with and finding a great venue for your church plant or multisite church. In this Vlog we discuss in detail some the important things to go over before...
Fall Consultation FAQ’s
We've been talking to a lot of pastors lately who are launching, re-equipping or relaunching in the upcoming Fall Season. There's a few common questions we hear concerning portable church consultations, and we thought we'd address them here for you. What's the...
Brand New Video – Excellence in Portable Church® Environments
We believe the church is not a physical building, but it is people who fellowship together. The church is where lives change, where lost people become found, where darkness turns to light, and where ashes turn to beauty. Building the church is what God calls...
6 Things Portable Churches Are Thankful For
There’s probably a lot that church leaders like you can be thankful for - God’s faithfulness, the support of friends and family, a God-centered church community and the encouragement from like-minded leaders! However, an increasing number of churches across the...
Vlog: Effective Portable Church Signage
Today...we are talking about signage! Best Practices, the good, the bad, the products and materials...Everything that a portable church needs to know about signs. So, let's dive in! Have you ever walked through a municipal building, college campus or maybe even an...
Vlog: How to do Baptisms in a Portable Church
How to do baptism in a portable church. Favorite products for doing baptisms in a portable church. A horse trough is one of the most common ways we see churches do baptism. The good things about them is that you can dress them up a little with some...
Vlog: 6 Effective Principles of Portability
Principles of Portability There are hundreds of principles required to being a portable church and doing it well. In this Vlog episode we want to discuss 6 of the most important principles of portability. The first one is to consider the weight....
Vlog: Church Plant Timeline
How to plant a church in 12 months We worked with Jason Laird from Sozo Church, San Francisco to come up with a step by step timeline for launching a church. Being a church planter is not for the faint of heart and it takes a ton of courage, boldness, and stepping...
Vlog: Recruiting & Retaining Portable Church Volunteers
In this vlog with special guest Rich Birch from unSeminary, he dives into how to recruit and retain portable church volunteers. Rich has been a 15 year client and friend of Portable Church Industries. He has been a part of 13 campuses with most of them being...
Vlog: Language That Burns Out Your Volunteer
Language that burns out your volunteers. As a part of portable churches for 22 years, Kevin has learned much about the ins and outs of successful and unsuccessful portable churches. The first church plant he was a part of was setting up and tearing down every...
Practical Steps to Creating Your Environment – Part 2
in part one of this series, we talked about using signage in creating your environment to provide comfort in navigating with your church launch. This time, let’s talk about creating comfort in your foyer, lobby or commons areas. There are so many ways to create a...
Vlog: Multi-Site Church Journey Thrive & Grow
The last step on the Multiste Journey...THRIVE! Thriving may be harder than it sounds, and this is the time when your volunteers either love you or hate you. Team structure is crucial. There needs to be a framework in place for your volunteers to follow, a...
Practical Steps to Creating Your Environment – Part 1
Choosing to visit a church for the first time can be a daunting experience for many. Many first time visitors to your church can have their defenses up. Perhaps they have been hurt by a previous experience; perhaps they walked away from established religion a long...
Vlog: Multisite Launch Checklist
Mapping Your Multisite Journey. Plan, prep, launch, & grow. "How do I launch more campuses better, faster, cheaper?" This is the question that we hear. A lot. To help churches answer this question, we've come out with a resource that walks through the details...
Vlog: 5 Minute Monday
It's our very first five minute Monday. So hello to the world of church planters and multi-site churches. But hey, this is our first five minute Monday where we're talking through stuff so we are going to be starting our five minute countdown in just a little...
Mapping Your Multisite Journey
So Many Things To Do. So Little Time! A Checklist and Timeline for Launching a New Campus For church leaders, there can be a fine line between the sense of urgency to accomplish Kingdom work and fully trusting that God has everything under control. When you have a...
Helping You Thrive More in 2019
Hello, pastors and leaders in the portable church world! You are our favorite people in the world. We truly believe there are so many great things that come from being a portable church ... I am just so excited about this year ahead that is going to be launched for...
Manufacturing and Church Plants: Match Made in Troy, MI…and Heaven
By Bill Clark January 10, 2019 Bill Clark is the CEO of Portable Church Industries. He joined the company in January of 2018 after a 22-year career in manufacturing. He also is the Executive Director of Hope Water International, a non-profit organization that...
To Build, Buy, Lease or Rent…that IS the question
To be or not to be...is no longer the question. For many churches, the burning question is what to do with facilities and do we even need to own a facility. This used to be a question that only church planters were asking. When you are first starting out, the...
Retaining Donors: Who doesn’t want more of that?
From our friends and partners at Paperlesstrans.com It can be discouraging to realize that your donors want to continue to give to your cause, but have found it difficult to do so-they give once and have every intention of giving again, but it slips their mind...
3 Things We Now Know About Church Planting Momentum
For many years, the common idea of evangelical church growth was centered around growing bigger – that is, envisioning more people coming through their doors. Some churches were starting new ones, and we can consider them the pioneers of the multisite movement. But...
Partner Story: Faith Promise Farragut
When Faith Promise Church in Knoxville, TN, prepared to launch their sixth active campus, they were compelled to use a portable rather than permanent space. Much of the decision was made on value-based strategies that have been adopted over years of being a great...
6 Wins That Are Attracting Pastors to Portability
Our clients come to us with all kinds of inspirational, cool, and even fun, “crazy” ideas for their worship, kids, and community areas. And while portability has its unique challenges – largely because of different facilities, team sizes, kingdom-building visions,...
Visions for Launching – New Multisite eBook
What’s happening in the movement of multisite churches? Here’s one big thing: we’re seeing an increase of churches that plant new churches even in the relatively small domain of portable churches that we serve. But there is evidence of a...
Two Questions with John Roth of Thrive Community Church
We recently took a survey of portable church pastors around the country to find out what was ONE THING they would do differently if they were to start over again, and what was ONE THING they did well when planting their church. Today, we want to introduce you to...
