Your Building is a Tool
    to Accomplish your Ministries.

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The church building is a tool for ministry.  The ministry is the goal.  The building is only a tool to accomplish that goal.

This is a truism, but a truism of great power.  To use it, you must identify the ministries that you want to accomplish.

A ministry may be as straightforward as providing after-school tutoring, or creating an accessible route to the sanctuary.  Clearly, building a classroom will help you accomplish the first, while installing a ramp may help you accomplish the second. 

But a ministry can also be more subtle, such as forming the congregation into one body as it gathers for worship, or presenting a friendly face to the community.  Here, the answer is also more subtle, but no less real.  The next pages identify a number of  ministries and explain how your building can help you accomplish them.