Let me preface this by saying that these thoughts are my own and don’t reflect the views of Denton Wesleyan Church, any Wesleyan Church, Pendleton High School, Chichester United Wesleyan Church, Central First Wesleyan Church, Mull Meadow Farms, or anyone else I know. Let me also say that I am a youth pastor, not an architect.
If I were going to build a multi-million dollar chapel and fine arts building I would….
1. Make sure that there were enough bathrooms for the number of people the building would hold.
2. Put in a floor that doesn’t crack like a Clemson QB under pressure or look like a 30 year old sidewalk after a month.
3. Design a stage where you can actually hold fine arts events like plays. This would include things like a curtain and a good sized backstage area. I’d make it so nice that community groups would want to use it and I would let them for a reasonable fee. It would also be nice if the drummer didn’t have to set up in a different area code.
4. Install a sound system that could be managed by anyone, but heard by everyone. I would design it so that when a person had to go to the bathroom they wouldn’t say, “Hey, I can hear things better through the speaker in here than I could on the front row.”
5. Install a projection system that didn’t rely on anything created by Microsoft. I would also make sure that the software we used for worship was not older than what we had been using before. Technology is meant to move forward not backwards.
6. Install enough stage lights and position them so that no matter a person stood on the stage they could be seen. This would especially be helpful for someone standing on the front of the stage.
7. Install movable seating but never set up 800 chairs for an event hosting less than 200 people.
8. Realize that God can move anywhere at anytime even if the building is not perfect. I would do everything to make sure it was perfect though even if that meant construction delays to raise the necessary money to finish the building perfectly.
Tomorrow’s post will be “If I were going to host a Christian college event for potential students”
On a different note check out this story and video and some of the worst mental mistakes in the history of college basketball. There will also be a post coming up about my trip to Indy, the Pacers-Hawks game, Larry Bird, and a fight that surprisingly didn’t involve any NBA players.
You should come up to IWU. There are doing just that…and I should say when it is done it will be Oh So nice.
do you need a tech director at that awesomely designed facility? If so count me in, I’ll even bring my own Macs.
It was almost painful for me to walk in there the first time. It still is, to some extent.
Especially when the jazz band does chapel.
Oh, and that floor is supposed to look like marble. Yeah, I don’t buy it, either.