If your church is looking to optimise its buildings or land, Making Property Serve Mission is the definitive resource.

Architect Fred Batterton looks at church property and its impact on mission. He then explores the opportunities that buildings can offer, how to get started, options for financing and outcomes that can be expected.

Covering all building types and with 77 colour illustrations the book has 11 Sections with frequently asked questions and a call to action.

• Define your core business
• How property can serve mission
• Evaluate your assets and opportunities
• Where to find help
• Design considerations
• How to pay for it
• Getting traction to proceed

"A gift to the wider Church."
Daniel Bullock, Director of Mission & Ministries, Baptist Union of Victoria

“A wealth of insight.”
Dale Stephenson, Senior Pastor Crossway Baptist Church

"This book rekindles our longing to speak the good news with relevance, power and grace."
Richard Giles, author of Re-pitching the Tent

In addition to seeing existing property in a new light, there is also a need to acknowledge new ways of being church and connecting with 21st century society in order to present the gospel message with clarity and relevance. Fred Batterton suggests clear approaches to successful outcomes and wise expenditure.

About the Author
FRED BATTERTON is an architect and director of Studio B Architects in Australia, having previously led a UK practice. He has researched the needs of churches in the UK, the US and Australia. He is passionate about how spaces impact upon the users of buildings, making places more effective and sustainable.

"This splendid resource provides an invaluable set of tools with which to re-evaluate the place of property in our missional planning and liturgical formation, whatever our size or situation, and rekindles our longing see to the Church re-equipped and reenergised to speak the good news with relevance, power and grace."
Richard Giles, Author of Re-pitching the Tent, Formerly Dean of Philadelphia Cathedral