Church growth is one of the ultimate good-news/bad-news situations in church work. The good news is that the Gospel is reaching an increasing number of people in your community who are coming to your church.

The bad news: now you have to start thinking about church facilities development – something your seminary never trained you for!

Yet while building projects are complicated, they don’t have to be a nightmare. And, best of all, they can actually build unity in your congregation!

Along with the Leadership Network and the Cornerstone Alliance, CCN offers you the chance to learn from church facilities experts who want you to know that a building project can actually be a transformational opportunity for your church and your community.

This practical workshop provides you with timeless principles, best (and worst) practices, and emergent ideas. Learn about:

• Collaborative Team Formation
• Process and Planning
• Vision
• Culture
• Strategic Leadership

You’ll discover how to examine transformational opportunities that will help you unlearn old practices and assumptions and develop a leadership team that leads through relationships, vision and values, and collaboration.

Find out how you can form and execute plans for facilities development that advance the church and its mission, and make a positive impact on the culture of your organization.

Ken Dean, M. Ed, Principal, Rowland Companies a Construction Development and General Contracting firm that specializes in Church construction and development in the Central and Southwestern United states. Ken and his wife Margaret have been married for 24 years and have raised three Godly sons. Ken has extensive experience in church analysis, church trends, construction best practices, financing, contracting, and church facilities development. He is a licensed minister, a former Christian School Superintendent, former Deacon Board Chairman, and worked as an investment-banking underwriter on numerous church capital expansion projects.
Ken is a featured construction writer for Church Executive and Church Business Magazines, a member of the World Future Society, the American Society for Church Growth, Associate member of the National Association of Church Business Administrators, and a conference speaker for the National Cornerstone Conferences on church construction.

Craig Janssen, President, Strategic Dimensions

Bill Couchenour, President, Cogan Industries

Ed Bahler, CEO of Aspen Group