Interruption or Disruption?
How you see the impacts of the Pandemic will shape the church for a generation. Over the past 20 years “regular church attendance” has declined from 3.2 times per month to 1.8 times per month. A recent Barna study indicates that 32% of practicing Christians have stopped attending any church whether in-person or online. In […]
Quick Tips on Social Distancing Guidelines
Let us be your resource as you re-open your facility! Download our Quick Tips for Cleaner, Safer, and More Accessible spaces during COVID-19. INTERIORS QUICK TIP SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES
A Call to Faithfulness
Blueline is blessed to have served well over a hundred churches in our sixteen-year history. Over those years, during periods of uncertainty, I have been inspired by and found encouragement from our church clients. Now, along with economic upheaval and a pandemic, we are confronted, once again, by the age-old problem of racism. Blueline is […]
Good News About Churches and Building Projects
Several weeks ago, we responded to the question, “Is now a good time for churches to build?” by discussing forecasts for construction pricing. But the answer to that question is not about money, it is about ministry priorities. A church in northern Virginia, for whom we recently completed contract documents for a new children’s ministry […]
COVID-19 and The Cost of Construction
When stay-at-home orders rolled out in March, it was natural for our clients to ask, “Should we move ahead with construction, or postpone?” The answer has two parts. The first part of the answer has to do with impact the pandemic is having on giving, fundraising, and lending. Blueline will tackle this in a future […]
Children’s Ministries in a Post-Virus World
We all know that the world we are emerging into will be different than the one we took shelter from. Fist bumps, or even elbow bumps, will replace handshakes. Glass shields protect us from everyday transactions, be it the post office or the farmer’s market. We may never feel secure enough in our stock of […]
Reopening Your Church: A Guide to Resources
During Blueline’s recent webinar on church operations, we were asked what guidelines existed to help churches reopen. Here is a summary of what we have found so far. When to Reopen? In Facebook Live events hosted by Vanderbloemen (a Christian Executive Search Firm), pastors around the country talk about syncing their plans for reopening church […]