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7 Factors to Help You Choose Portable Church Plant 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...
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...
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...
Tips for Smart Portable Audio – Part 1
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...
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
<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> We believe the church is not a physical building, but it is people who fellowship together. The church is where...
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...
How to do Baptisms in a Portable Church
Favorite products for doing baptisms in a portable church. 1. A horse trough. This 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 graphics, and you can pretty much buy...
Vlog: 6 Effective 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. #1 consider the weight Equipment choice is such a crucial piece of being...
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...
Language That Burns Out Your Volunteer
Volunteering at a portable church is no small task. No matter what team you serve on, it takes sacrifice and commitment to serve faithfully. In this vlog, our Director of Sales & Marketing describes his experience volunteering at portable churches and the power...
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...
Vlog: Breakdown of Launching a Successful Mutisite Campus
Mapping your multisite journey...The launch & land stage... The launch and land stage involves execution. It's where all the excitement for the planning and the preparation begin to take shape and all of the pieces start coming together. At the beginning of...
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
<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> It's our very first five minute Monday. So hello to the world of church planters and multi-site churches. But...
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