COVID 19 Design Impacts: An Interview with Tim Songster

Tim Songster, CEO of Cosco & Associates, joins Thom and Sam to discuss COVID-19 and your church building. Tim shares great insights for understanding how building usage and church space design is changing during the pandemic.  * How has COVID 19 changed the way your clients are using their buildings? * What immediate and maybe obvious things are churches you are working with adding to their facilities due to COVID 19? * What changes do you see coming in the design of various church spaces because of pandemics like COVID 19? * Restrooms? * Common areas? * Children areas? * Worship Centers? * Small Group spaces? * Offices? * Youth spaces? * New Spaces?Resources mentioned in today's podcast: * Church Future Indicator * Cosco & Associates * One way to assist your church members to bridge the racial divide is through the Tyndale House Publishers’ Friendship Challenge. The Friendship Challenge is a practical 6-week program for individuals or groups to pursue racial reconciliation. The Friendship Challenge consists of a book and online videos to help you or your church heal racial division. For information go to https://www.tyndale.com/sites/thefriendshipchallenge/          Episode SponsorsTyndale recently launched a new website, tyndalechurchconnect.com/. The site supports church leaders with helpful content and resources from some of the world’s most trusted pastors and authors. You’ll find videos, study guides and book excerpts, along with some of Tyndale’s newest and most popular books and Bibles for churches and church leaders. Visit tyndalechurchconnect.com/ and sign up for the Church Connect e-newsletter to receive regular Church Connect updates by email. You can also learn how to get a free digital preview of my upcoming book, The Post-Quarantine Church—due to release in September. The mission at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by equipping students to serve the church and fulfill the Great Commission. The school offers more than 40 different degree programs, including the new Master of Arts in Church Revitalization in partnership with Church Answers and the Revitalization Network. This 37-hour degree is designed to help students move established churches from flatlining to flourishing.Learn about this program and more by visiting sebts.edu. Where are you going? Southeastern will help you get there.