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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
Last time, we talked about using signage in creating your environment to provide comfort in navigating with your church launch. Now, let’s talk about creating comfort in your foyer, lobby or commons areas. There are so many ways you can create a welcoming...
Portable Church Signage | 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
Kevin Jones: Hello, church! It is Kevin Jones again, we are here with the five minute Monday. This is your second installation that is happening. We have Jeff Beachum with us here again, who is our multiplication specialist, and before we go into him a bit more I...
Vlog: 5 Minute Monday
Kevin: Hey, we're live. Jeff: Yep. Kevin: It's our very first five...
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...
Now Hiring – Design Consultant
Portable Church is hiring again! We are seeking a candidate to join our consulting team. Job Summary PCI is seeking a full-time Design Consultant to join our staff. Using their array of knowledge and technical ability, a PCI Design Consultant designs and...
Now Hiring – Manufacturing
Portable Church is hiring again! We are seeking a few manufacturing candidates to carry out various building tasks in our manufacturing facility. You... ... come equipped with some construction experience but will be trained on the specifics...
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...
15 Ultimate Resources for Church Planters
Peter Wagner has famously said that church planting is the “single most effective evangelistic methodology under heaven.” However, the journey of planting a new church is far from an easy one. [bctt tweet="Anxiety regarding finances, stress about leadership...
Two Questions with Trent Carpenter of C3 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...
Two Questions with Tommy Bowman of Mission 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...
Two Questions with Peter Brown of The Edge 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...
These 7 Church Planting Mistakes Can Really Cost You
With over 156 million unchurched people in America alone, church plants are the need of the hour. However, church planting can be a difficult road - one that doesn’t always end with success. In fact, statistics suggest that 30-40% of churches are not likely to...
Two Questions with John Sherrill of Declaration 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...
Two Questions with David Stephenson of The Journey
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...
Two Questions With Brian Mullins of Metro Church San Antonio
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...
Top Trends in Church Planting That Work
We hear about trends all the time. We know when fall is around the corner, because even before the first leaf turns yellow Starbucks re-introduces the Pumpkin Spice Latte. Fashion trends come and go and come back again – you must have seen velvet on someone in the...
3 Reasons to Pursue a Church Plant Now
Missiologist C. Peter Wagner once said, “Planting new churches is the most effective evangelistic methodology known under heaven.” These days, this is becoming more and more apparent. According to our new church planter survey, a third or more of churchgoers are...
Five Reasons to Start a New Church or Campus
We recently introduced in partnership with Leadership Network a report that will help pastors and church leaders make a decision based on the question, "Should we start a new church/campus?" This infographic is the best representation of the 5 major reasons...
