1st December 2017

Lighting Up The Valley – Shepherd Church, Porter Ranch, CA

What does a church do to engage a community as vast and diverse as Los Angeles? PlainJoe had the opportunity to serve one of the largest churches in the region by providing spatial-storytelling and...
13th October 2017

4 Signs Your Church Needs a Brand Architecture Overhaul

How well is your church managing its brand? “Brand Architecture” isn’t a term you hear often in the church world, but it’s a concept you experience every day–everywhere you go.   A...
26th September 2017

5 Signs You Need to Update Your Church Website

If your church has a website, that means you’re ahead of the game, right? Not necessarily. Chances are that your site probably needs to be updated and here are five places that need the most...
25th September 2017

3 Facility Upgrade Strategies That Can Help Your Church Grow (and Spend Less on Posters & Flyers)

God is a God of “place-based” community. In fact, the book of Leviticus takes a deep dive into the specific features God wanted the Israelites to pay attention to as they built their community....
25th September 2017

Design Intervention: Australian Churches Explore New Environments

As I write this, I’m flying across the island continent of Australia after having spent more than a week uncovering what God is up to in this amazing corner of his creation. Outside of Sydney, I had...
25th September 2017

Church Renews Its Discipleship Strategy, Story And Space

A century-old Free Methodist church founded in 1908 in the middle of Washington state was not the most likely church home and mission field for 35-year-old Mike Wilson. He and I had collaborated on...
25th September 2017

Mosaic Church starts demo

Demolition is set for this week on a long-closed, Winter Garden department store that will be rebuilt as Mosaic Community Church’s main campus. Now located off the West Orange Trail in Oakland,...
25th September 2017

Florida Church Looks To Re-create The Lost Vision Of Eden In Disney’s Backyard

Almost five decades ago, a storyteller named Walt Disney took what he had learned about the intersection of story and space and “imagineered” a Disney World roughly the same size as San Francisco...