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This web site is primarily an educational tool.  We hope it will help you make wise, informed decisions about your church building.

How?

By giving you a set of guiding principles.

We have developed these principles through our experience and research, and use them to guide our work.  We share these principles with you in the pages that follow.

Knowing and understanding them will help you evaluate your building, plan for the future, and exercise good stewardship of your resources.  They work for any building program or budget:

• New building.

• Addition.

• Sanctuary reordering.

• Renovation and repair of existing or historic building.

• Accessibility.

• Feasibility, site selection, master-plan.

• Community centers.

• In fact, any way that the physical environment can assist the church's work.

The Hiltner Company is an award winning church architecture and design firm.  Churches hire us for consultation on sanctuary design, master-planning, accessibility, lighting - in general, for help in using their building as a tool for accomplishing their ministries.  If you are just beginning to think about your building project, we can give you direction and help you establish goals and parameters.  If you already have an architect, we can supply a fresh pair of eyes to review your plans and make suggestions.

We consult anywhere.  And we also offer direct architectural services to congregations in the upper Midwest.

If you have a question, we might be able to help you.  Please call, or write us by clicking on More Information.

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