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6 Top Reasons a Budget Solution Might Be the Best Choice for Your Portable Church
Portable Church Industries asked successful plants about their opinions on key price points and non-negotiable equipment that suits church plants of varying sizes: from below 100, to more than 400 attendees. With such valuable information at hand, it was a simple process to develop innovative and high-quality Portable Church Box Solutions for churches that need a budget-focused, volunteer-focused, and future-focused solution to launch a church.
FAQs Answered: Introducing the Best Bins
Instead of rifling around storage bins or searching for a lost lid, these bins are our proven favorite. Discover the incredible benefits of using our clear, durable system containers.
5 Best Ways to Build an Excited and Empowered Portable Church Team
As church planters and ministry leaders, your team is your greatest asset. Years of listening to feedback from churches of various demographics have helped us deduce that the key to maintaining excitement and a sense of empowerment in a portable church team is to master the art of sharing the vision. Here are some of those lessons.
Best 90-Day Launch Plan for Church Plants
Church planting is not a new idea. Many have gone before you on the journey of planting churches and navigating all the twists and turns that it involves. Today, we are in a privileged position because we have so many valuable resources to consult when our church leadership teams feel called to extend the Kingdom. What every team needs is a church planting plan.
FAQs Answered: Take Better Care of Your Trailer
Owning a trailer is serious business. While it makes portability a breeze (and you know we love that here at PCI), our trailers bear the brunt of a great many things, the weather included, and so it also deserves some loving care every once in a while. Although to do so isn’t exactly a walk in the park, PCI has got a few tips and tricks to keep your trailer maintained and looking as good as new every time.
5 Pro Tips For Choosing Your Portable Church’s Sound System
A church’s sound system is one of the most critical tech components that must always be up to scratch in order for the church to serve its people effectively. It’s one of those systems that, when in place and working, no one really thinks about but when it’s not working well, everyone notices.
4 Inviting Church Lobby Ideas That Welcome Guests
Some churches have mastered the inviting coffee bar or comfy seats and tables, and others have given trusted ideas a new twist. Here’s a peek at some of our favorite ideas that you can borrow for welcoming guests into your church, too.
FAQs Answered: How to Put Away Your Play Panels
Having trouble putting away your play panels? We’ve all been there. Luckily, this video is perfect for those who find putting play panels away at the end of the day to not be the easiest of tasks.
What is Church Planting in the Bible?
Explore the core components of church planting in the Bible, and how it translates into today’s world. Stick around and see how our portable church plants embody these principles in their own unique ways.
3 Ways to Find the Best Portable Church Chairs
To most people, researching and then purchasing the required sound system and lighting rig is substantially more interesting than carefully selecting which portable church chairs are best for your setup. But if you think about it, your church’s chairs are one of the most important collections of equipment.
Our Network of Techies Recommend These 3 Presentation Software Platforms
We asked our network of church planters, AVL techies, and ministry leaders which software they prefer for projecting lyrics, announcements, verses and more, and they answered. Here, we’ve compiled the best of best advice for you.
How Rejection Develops Flexibility in Church Planting
When Wayne Northrup, Senior Pastor of Saints Community Church (SCC), set out to find a rental facility for his mobile church, he didn’t think that it would be difficult, nor did he anticipate being rejected more than 50 times. In this article, you can read about Wayne’s challenges and victories, and seize this opportunity to boost your church planting knowledge.
3 Kinds of Portable Church Signage You Need To Secure Before Launching
Signs are often taken for granted, even though they are the backbone of ensuring the efficient movement of people. We depend on signs to help us navigate through grocery stores, on the road, and in buildings that we are unfamiliar with. Your portable church needs signs, that’s for sure.
Actionable Advice One Multisite Leader Gives To Churches Ready to Reach More People
If you speak to anyone who has walked the road of going multisite or planting a church, they will tell you that learning from those who have gone before you is a top priority. This is advice that you may have already heard but it’s worth repeating because of how true it is.
FAQs Answered: How to Use Coffee Brewer
Good church coffee brewers are considerably larger than the ones we have for domestic use, and there are a few important pointers for how to use them most effectively. Get our tips in this short video from Jesse.
Keep Your Church Plant Launch Timeline Manageable with This Resource
No doubt, you and your team have read numerous articles or books to prepare for your church plant launching, and you’ve probably consulted with experts, too. However, it would be way more useful to have all of their knowledge, condensed and neatly collected into a step-by-step procedure for you to follow.
Impressive Before & After Photos of 4 Portable Church Spaces
The portable church space transformations that take place on Sunday mornings always blow our minds. We see churches all over the country take a generic stage or room and turn it into a functional space, befitting a worship service or ministry. How do churches bring their visions to life? Check out these before and after images and find out how.
FAQs Answered: How To Set Up Your Foam Flooring
With most tasks in life, there is a slow way to do it, and a more efficient way, too. Foam flooring can take some time to get used to and setting it up can take much longer than anticipated if you don’t know the best way to lay each piece. This video will show you how!
Where Should You Plant a Church?
Your church is blessed and has an abundance of volunteers and leaders who are driven to widen the reach of the gospel. Your church has been directed to plant a new church, but how do you determine where to plant a new church?
FAQs Answered: Setting Up Your Scuba Wall
Scuba walling is everyone's favorite thing about being mobile. It may be the texture or how easy it is. There is definitely a correct method for hanging your scuba that avoids damaging the material and a big mess of magnets the next time you need to set up. Get the scoop in this video.
11 Church Planting Verses from the Bible
We often set off to complete a big task, filled with inspiration and energy but soon find ourselves questioning what we are doing and how to do it. Have you found yourself in this situation? Go back to the beginning and seek God’s encouragement for your mission with these 11 verses from the Bible.
How To Effectively Train Your Volunteer Teams
It’s one thing to recruit a number of volunteers but it’s another thing to effectively train your volunteer teams. With a solid training strategy, you’ll avoid having volunteers milling around without any idea of what to do, or a high volunteer dropout rate, which then leaves you with too few people to help you out on a Sunday.
FAQs Answered: How To Set Up Your Pop-up Expand Sign
Time is always of the essence when it comes to setting up and tearing down. Now that you have invested in some great signs for your church, you’ll want to know the best ways to set them up, tear them down, and look after them.
3 Non-Negotiables for Portable Church Set-Up
Armies of volunteers set up portable churches every week. It’s a sight to behold! And there are many more on the brink of launching, and they’d love to learn from your experience. So tell us… What equipment has become a must-have for an efficient set-up and tear-down experience? We asked our network of church planters and ministry leaders and here’s a sampling of what made the list.
Learn From Expert Church Planters: Daniel Im Talks With Rich Birch
When it comes to expanding your church, keep in mind that others have been in your situation and there are loads of people out there who have come through it, with valuable information to share. In fact, we have the benefit of experts in this field; people who have researched and invested a lot of time exploring the ins and outs of this entire subject.
FAQs Answered: Case Training with Jesse
Cases come in different sizes and shapes. Often, we don’t know how best to maneuver a case and end up developing bad habits. Portable church cases are designed to be moved easily and by almost anyone – you just need to know how to do it correctly.
5 Tips From a Multisite Expert
Going multi-site is no walk in the park. Indeed, the benefits to your church and the kingdom are immense, but there are a number of things that if forgotten, will negatively affect your launch and long-term success. Thankfully, after years of churches going multi-site, we have the benefit of experts in this field who are more than happy to impart their knowledge and save us from making the same mistakes they, or other churches, did.
The Ultimate Guide to Your Portable Church Volunteer Structure
Gathering the right number of volunteers for a typical Sunday morning has more of an impact than meets the eye. If you have too many helpers, there won’t be enough work to go around and your recruits won’t feel like they’ve made an impact. Having too few is a burden on the group. What gives? There are several aspects to consider when planning your portable church volunteer structure, and we’ll unpack a few of them in this article.
FAQs Answered: How to Load and Unload Your Portable Case into a Trailer
PCI designs every church’s portable system to fit easily inside your designated trailers, but there’s an order and sequence to getting it right. These videos will tell you exactly what you need to know.
Church Planters’ Favorite Digital Leadership Teachers for Inspo and Advice
Recently, we asked our church planting network to share their favorite online teachers and influencers and we know you’ll want to check out these ‘follows’ if you haven’t already.
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