Definitely prefer to be a better steward than to just build larger buildings.  If you can’t use the building(s) you have effectively, why would you just want a larger one?  Besides, it’s better to not have to go into debt to build new buildings.  That’s something my current church is learning right now.  If some of the larger givers leave (for whatever reason, good or bad), then the rest of the local body will hurt trying to maintain payments.

I definitely agree that once you hit ~ 80% capacity you need to add space somehow - perhaps with more services, perhaps with a new location/building.  Of course, it depends on your capacity to start with.  If you’re in a church plant and meeting in a really small location, going to multiple services may not be worthwhile.  However, if you’ve got a location that can seat a decent number of people, then filling up several services makes more sense than increasing the building size more often than not.

Good point, Jim.  I hadn’t thought about the impact on the Staff.  I realize that it may not be as easy to give the Teaching Pastor a break, but could the other staff members be rotated around to help ease some of their load?  Anyone have any experience with this or thoughts on it?  I’d like to think that if our church gets to the point of having multiple services that we’ll have the staff/volunteers to handle the load without burnout.  I know my current pastor is very big on not letting people get burned out and our Deacon body is also careful with this for our staff.

We do three services in a weekend, one on Saturday night, and two on Sunday. The only people that are at every service most of the time are the worship arts pastor (me) and the main teaching pastor (our Senior Pastor).

Neither of us is, as far as I can tell, even close to burnout. My welcome teams and worship teams rotate out every week. I play on three of the worship teams, so typically I have one weekend “off” per month, but I am, if I’m in town, at all three services.

But add one more, and I think you’re tipping it too far.

I still can’t figure this one out.  I pastor a small church which has grown exponentially.  I came on the field 3 yrs ago and we quarupled within the first year.  I did a space study and found three variations on our seating.  1.  We have a small balcony, a choir loft, and standard pew seating...80% capicity of all three areas would total to 180.  2.  There was strong resistance to staying seated in the choir loft by the singers and musicians, so we dropped that from our study and found that 80% of the balcony and pews was about 160.  3.  Our balcony is more for “decor” than use.  The heating and cooling are inefficient up there and very few were willing to sit there long.  So we did a study and found that in our pews, 80% is 134.  Our average attendance was 225. 

We did not have the funds to build, nor did we feel comfortable with debt based on unsustained growth, so we tried to multiply our services.  The problems arose immediately.  1.  In our community and demographic the idea of “not visibly ‘seeing’ every other attendee was disheartening to many and discouragement set in quick.  2.  there was also resistance in changing the format for either service (ie traditional and contemporary), so our choir and musicians did two blended services each week.  We also had problems with volunteers for children’s ministry during the services.

Ultimately, the congregation percieved the 2nd service as a flop that led to burn out, so we went back to one service and our attendance has dropped considerably.  We talked about off-site worship on sunday mornings, but in a small southern county-seat, the idea was quickly dropped.  My question isn’t if you build or turn over seats, my question is, what do you do when neither is an option?

Sounds good for able bodied people but for the disabled I hope they only have one seat turn.

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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.

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”.