Advices On 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.

Compared to other campaigns which are most likely for museums, universities, schools, and hospitals, this one is quite different. It strongly involves towards the Christian Stewardship principle and is built upon a solid foundation which the lifestyles and priorities are taken from this. The values and responsibilities are from the word of God.

How long it takes to accomplish this would depend on how well the planning and execution phases are done. It also depends on the time the donors are able to support you. Some would be able to commit their support and pledge for donating funds or assistance, but some need time to pray, discuss with the committee, and consider, in order for them to make a decision.

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.

Going out on public too soon would be another mistake that some campaigns would usually make. It so happens that during the publicized phase, the amount of donations does not contribute enough to the whole project and would only be minimal. That is why there needs to be private meetings with members and high contributing people.

This campaign should be seen from start to finish. A lot of people would think that there is more importance with publicity, but the legs of the entire project are in the first and last phases. These two would determine the complete success of the campaign. There would be more security if the start is established well, and there would be loyalty from the members if it finished well.

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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