Build a New Building or Increase Your Seat Turns?
- Posted on March 18, 2008
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“Let’s say you have 400 people worshiping in three weekend experiences. If your worship space has 200 seats, each seat is used 2 times. You have 2 seat turns.
(Our highest number of seat turns at a campus has been 4.25)
The higher the number of turns, the better steward you’re being of the building. (In my opinion, many churches are building or relocating when they could be focusing on more seat turns.)”
Any thoughts? Seems pretty simple… and a good way to be a great steward of what God has given you in the way of facilities.
So… what’s your ‘seat turn’?
Craig Groeschel has an interesting series going on over at his Swerve blog. A recent post told how they at LifeChurch.tv measure 'seat turns'. According to Craig, one of the interesting metrics they measure is how many times one “seat” is used. To find this number, take your total adult weekend attendance and divide it by total seating capacity. Craig continues...
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toronto condos on Sat, July 25, 2009
I must say though you have stated two things that do not go hand in hand. Quality and “As much house as possible for my budget”. You are better off with a smaller house with finer details, quality construction and that works for your lifestyle than building a huge home that has many un-used rooms. Plus have you considered your utilities? The larger the home, the larger the utility bills. I would suggest reading the book “The Not So Big House”.
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