Houses of Worship Security Self-Assessment Tool
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The US Department of Homeland Security has created a new toolkit for assessing security for houses of worship. Check it out!
Have any of you successfully sold or donated your pews when you take them out? Wondering if anyone has had luck with this.
One church's policy to help determine roles and responsibilities to open the church safely.
Any ideas on best practices related to sanitizing and disinfecting our church buildings?
I'm looking for a sample incident form to include with church rentals. Does your church have one? Any ideas?
More churches in hurricane-prone locations are standing in as storm shelters. Yet many aren’t prepared to protect their own property or members.
Our church policy (based on complying with Revenue Canada) requires that we charge people to use our facility. We would like to open our doors (free of charge) as a witness in the community. Any idea how to do this?
Christianity Today recently published an article identifying the top 5 church design trends to look for in the year ahead. I'd love to know, have you seen these trends at your church?
The Facility Renovation Team will be responsible to act as the primary contact between Our Church and the architect and builder.
These plans enable the church to finish building a facility at specified site.
The following policies support the mission of our church and safeguards people and property.
Many congregations rent their facilities to emerging or established Christian congregations in their communities. This seems like a win-win arrangement. But what does Christ think about such an arrangement?
Our church doesn’t have a paid janitor. Instead, we consider ourselves a church of janitors. People take turns mopping, vacuuming, and cleaning bathrooms and the kitchen in preparation for our worship gathering on Sunday.
The most common symbol for accessibility features an image of someone in a wheelchair—lifeless, helpless, passive. Temporarily able-bodied people tend to look at people who have disabilities that way, seeing need without recognizing capability and giftedness. A new icon pushes that stereotype aside.
Here are basic suggestions for a church which is approached about leasing space for a cell tower or antenna.
This article demonstrates the effort, time, and cost that many churches in our denomination have undertaken to make their facilities accessible to people with physical impairments.
For building improvements, we are aware of several organizations that give accessibility grants to churches in specific regions.