Tips And Readiness For Church Capital Campaign

By Dominique Martin


Planning and developing for establishments would take a lot of preparation, whether it is for renovation or for construction. There are a lot of aspects you need to cover like finance, legalities, manpower, location planning, fundraising or marketing, endowments, maintenance, and also feasibility studies. There would be a lot to consider for this and whichever goal you might have whether it is for an organization, an agency, or a company.

Being able to execute the construction or maybe a renovation would need both science and art. A church capital campaign may need to have a beautiful mix of traditional and modern ways. The foundation lies both in the Old and New Testament with examples that involve in applying truths from these scriptures. This is basically a building campaign which takes in effort from the church to raise funds in a short amount of time for financing the construction and renovation of a building.

There is a certain difference with this campaign compared to every others like for universities and schools, museums, hospitals, etc. For this kind, it deals with the principle for Christian Stewardship. The foundation is built on that lifestyle which the responsibilities and the values are from the word of God.

This would all depend on how the procedures and planning are being done. The donors or givers have the most special role for this as well, and the time it would take to accomplish this would highly depend on them as well. There would be some who would commit then and there, but of course, it should be anticipated that there are those who need time to think, prioritize, and pray over their decisions.

There are projects that have made mistakes due to a few factors being overlooked. The committee should be able to have a congregational readiness survey or a feasibility study in order to know up to what level of support and capacity that the project has already reached. Placing blind faith on this would highly contribute to the failure of the project.

Another mistake would be prematurely doing publicity. It would be too impossible to finish the project with small donations or gifts and therefore initially having personal meetings with the members would be critical to the foundation. Major commitments done in a quiet phase would determine the success of everything. Never rush to make an announcement.

This has to be done properly from the beginning until it lasts. The usual notion that the success of the publicity period is the actual success of the entire project is not true. It actually depends on the beginning phase and the last phases. The last would certify the members and their loyalty and the beginning would give a foundation enough for the entire campaign to finish.

Making assumptions from givers would be a mistake as well. It is not one hundred percent certain that everyone in the church would be able to give equal support and value of assistance for the campaign and therefore miscalculating this would lead to a higher possibility of failure. It is not worth the risk, instead carefully plan and make solid implementations on the right ways of doing this.

One way to make sure that all of this would go smoothly is by referring to a professional for their inputs and outputs for the whole project. This is a complex campaign and should be highly regarded as such and given appropriate attention. Everything is critical and every step should be well calculated in order to reduce further risks for the campaign to fail.




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