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Re-Opening Checklist for Portable Churches
This post is specifically focused on what should be considered to reopen a church meeting in a portable setting. It's a confusing time we live in now – especially if you are a leader in the church. Generally, leading is very real work. Specifically,...
Helpful Resource Links During This Phase of Re-Opening
Our running log of helpful sites during the time of re-opening. HK Law Firm Considerations for Landlords and Property managers Considerations for the Hospitality Industry Aspen Group Key questions to prepare for a new season of ministry Relaunching Culture...
Why CODE Series?
What makes a CODE Series solution different from others It has been said that a person will decide within the first 4 minutes of stepping into your church building if they will return or not. However, today this goes beyond the physical experience within a...
Life.Church’s Multisite Strategy
With 34 physical locations and 90 weekly online services, Life.Church is leading the way in multisite church! We have partnered with them on this brand new resource to give insight into Life.Church’s portable model and what makes their unique campus strategy so...
Virtual Consultations
New times provide new opportunities… Free virtual consults AND a revamped process! COVID-19 is shutting many things down, but the church is continually shifting, amping up, and thinking ahead for the future… In this future planning, church campusing and planting...
A Time to Thrive & Innovate
Innovative churches will win after this crisis So much discussion right now is being centered around one defining question… “What is the future of the church is going to look like?” As we plan for that future, we do so with the understanding that society will...
Trailer vs Box Truck
It’s as controversial as pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation or post-tribulation… more hotly debated than Bieber and Kanye being real Christians, more pondered than the effectiveness of essential oils. Many churches we work with have strong feelings about this topic....
Church Live Video Streams Weekend Service from Remote Location
City Light Church broadcasts their weekend service from a warehouse With the reductions and restrictions of large gatherings over the past week, churches all over the world have been forced to create a space for their church family to gather together on the...
How to Live Video Stream and Start Church Online
Simple, easy-to-use streaming kits for those wanting to get started quickly In light of the coronavirus outbreak, many churches around the world have recently been faced with the urgent task of continuing ministry activities in creative ways. For many, this means...
The Key to Sustaining Multisite Momentum
<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> The most critical asset a church’s leadership team can acquire is a big bold Kingdom-sized vision. ...
LibertyLive Story
Superman’s only real threat, as it turns out, was Kryptonite! When a growing church has a clear and relentless vision of reaching a given community or region with a multisite strategy, it will face challenges, or kryptonite, if you will. “How do we keep...
Metrics That Matter in 2020
God did not bring us this far just to bring us this far. While we are humbled by the impact we have made for the Kingdom over the last 25 years, we are pumped about what God can do through us over the next 25. For Portable Church, opening up seats to hear the...
Nursery Room Best Practices
Portable Hacks & Tips - Kids Ministry Nursery Room Wins Raising up future generations to carry on the mission of the church is a HUGE and exciting responsibility! We as church leaders want to do all we can to develop kids who are Christ-followers and...
When Power Meets Kryptonite
When God blesses a (church) leader with a clear and compelling vision, they have been given access to a unique and unmatched power. *** Unfortunately, I am old enough to reminisce about the original “Adventures of Superman” created in the 1950s. (But proudly, I am...
How to Lead When You’re Not the Senior Leader
Leadership is more than just being the highest guy on the totem pole. Whether you’re a campus pastor, senior leader, or active volunteer, you can have a voice even when you’re not the one in charge. Here are some of our favorite articles with great ideas on...
All You Need to Know About Kids Ministry Ratios
In this vlog episode of Portable Hacks & Tips - we are doing a deep dive into thinking through ratios...How many kids to expect for your launch, how much space will you need for the kids and the number of workers/volunteers you will need to keep everything safe...
Portability, Cubic Volume and Equipment
If you are starting a church, there are so many things to consider you may not even know where to start... When purchasing equipment for your portable church, with all the financial pressures a church planter faces, it is easy to focus only on economics. In truth,...
Kids Ministry Security
Portability Hacks & Tips - How to Keep Your Kids Ministry Secure There is a peace that parents need to feel when it comes to leaving their children at church. You will want to create environments where parents want to leave their kids and where the kids don’t...
7 Key Factors to Help You Choose the Right Portable Church Equipment
Finding the right equipment for your portable church is no easy task! Space, storage and transportation are just a few of the factors that have to be taken into account. In addition, setting up and tearing down equipment every week can be a unique challenge. You...
63 Potential Spaces For Your Next Launch
Our new resource - The Ultimate List of Portable Church Venues - talks about all the different potential spaces you could use for your next campus launch or your church plant. We developed this resource in response to the question we get all the time - where should...
10 Bonus Benefits of Portability
What are the ten bonus benefits a church enjoys while portable? In our most recent resource, we talked about some of the kryptonite that multisite churches can face and how to handle all of those roadblocks. We also talk about how portability could be the...
7 Little-Known Advantages of Multisite Churches
The multisite movement has taken the world by storm! In fact, the multisite model has already multiplied and revitalized thousands of churches in the United States. And, this method has only increased in number since then. With that in mind, here are seven reasons...
Multisite Church – Power of Portability (Part 2)
Sustain Multisite Momentum In our last blog post, we talked about different ways to launch new multisite campuses and how we advocate for a healthy balance of these 5 different ways. Portability is an incredible and underused tool, however, we know that portability...
Why Church. in a Box Might Be Right for You
5 reasons why you should consider Church. in a Box We often get calls from pastors who are saying they are wanting to launch soon or are on a tight budget and are not sure where to start. They are looking for a great system that they can get their hands-on fast....
Creating the Team & Establishing the Process
The way you treat your volunteers and the way they feel about serving will greatly impact the success, discipleship, spiritual formation, community impact and long-term growth of your church. The truth is, existing in a rented space is not the glass half empty...
The Kryptonite of Multisite Momentum
Sustaining Multisite Momentum When You Have a Big Vision "Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" "Look! Up in the sky!" "It's a bird!" "It's a plane!" "It's Superman!" This could be heard at...
The Benefits of Portable Church® Cases
Load in, load out, repeat. Rolling in and out of a rented facility on a weekly basis comes with the territory of being a portable church. And even though it may seem like a logistical nightmare at first, it really doesn’t have to be! Our cases have so many benefits...
How Portability is Setting Churches Free
This Fourth of July, churches across America will be celebrating and praying for the nation. It’s great to live in a free country, isn’t it? Well, did you know that your church can also enjoy greater freedom? Yes, that’s right! Portability can set your church...
Tips for Smart Portable Lighting – Part 3
How to find success with lighting in your portable church worship room. How does lighting apply to you and your church and what's important to think about? Because you need audio and video before you need lighting, it doesn't always get the credit it deserves....
Tips for Smart Portable Video – Part 2
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...
