Podcast Episode #387
Tim Cool returns to the podcast today to discuss facility issues churches often face and how you can tackle them in 2018.
Some highlights from today’s episode include:
- Your church is more inclined to experience a parent in a divorce case trying to abduct a child than it is to experience an active shooter.
- Presence is the #1 thing your church can do to increase security.
- Is your church facility congruent with your mission?
- In a perfect world, you wouldn’t have deferred maintenance; you’d have enough money to handle facility issues as they arise.
- Your facility team is an important part of your church’s ministry.
The ten keys to maximizing your church facility are:
- Safety and security
- Flow of the space
- Contextualization of facilities
- Capital reserve – facing the inevitable
- Addressing the 4 buckets of budgeting
- Staffing
- Defining CLEAN and how that impacts staffing and budget
- Spatial utilization
- Integrating the facility and facility staff in your ministry
- Empowering the membership to be active in facility stewardship
About Tim Cool
Tim Cool is founder of Cool Solutions Group, and has assisted nearly 400 churches, (equating to over 4 Million Sq Ft) throughout the United States with their facility needs. He has collaborated with churches in the areas of facility needs analysis, design coordination, pre-construction and construction management as well as life cycle planning/facility management. Cool Solutions Group is also the developer of eSPACE Facility Management software products including Event Scheduler, Event Registration, Work Order Management, Life Cycle Calculator and HVAC integration.Tim is also the author of three books, Why Church Buildings Matter: The Story of Your Space, Church Locality (co-authored with Jim Tomberlin) and Plan 4 It: The 4 Essential Master Plans For Every Church as well as a church Facility Management manual entitled “Intentional Church Series: Facility Stewardship”. Tim lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife of 32 years, Lisa, and supports his triplet college students at Appalachian State University.
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