{"id":13091,"date":"2019-04-08T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=13091"},"modified":"2019-03-31T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T18:43:55","slug":"how-church-buildings-can-do-more-for-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2019\/04\/how-church-buildings-can-do-more-for-the-community.html","title":{"rendered":"How church buildings can do more for the community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Church-in-Concrete.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11557\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Church-in-Concrete-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Church-in-Concrete.jpg 800w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Church-in-Concrete-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Church-in-Concrete-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week at SaveYour.Town, we&#8217;re sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/saveyour.town\/sharedspaces\/\">how to take big empty buildings and divide them up for multiple small businesses<\/a>. One model is co-working spaces, which offer shared office and workspace. Then our friend Jon Swanson sent us an article on rural churches doing innovative things, including one doing a co-working space. This seems like a perfect fit for some small town churches.<\/p>\n<p>The article is by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithandleadership.com\/allen-t-stanton-rural-churches-can-thrive-beyond-numbers\">Allen T. Stanton: Rural churches can thrive beyond numbers<\/a>. The example he gave was First United Methodist Church in Sanford, Florida, which he describes as &#8220;a small city outside Orlando.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stanton listed questions that a pastor named Meghan has started asking about their role in the community. &#8220;What are the needs we can meet?&#8221; and &#8220;What does it mean to be a leader in this particular community?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where the co-working space for non-profits idea came up. So far, the non-profits include food-based programs, support groups and entrepreneurial initiatives focused on justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of these groups were trying to find ways to work together,\u201d Meghan said. \u201cWe want to find ways for our church to help in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Think about the churches in your small town. Are any of them asking questions like this? Are any sharing their buildings with outside groups or another congregation?<\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\">Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week at SaveYour.Town, we&#8217;re sharing how to take big empty buildings and divide them up for multiple small businesses. One model is co-working spaces, which offer shared office and workspace. 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