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Church Furniture
George Kreger

Best Value: Office Chairs Inc.

As I assist churches across the country with their church furnishing needs, I consistently find a need or “niche” for mid-market product lines. For lounge and reception furniture, I find I’m advancing Office Chairs Inc. in an increasing manner these days as such a solution.  Here’s why: Office Chairs Inc. was founded about four decades ago.  From the beginning, their

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Church Chairs / Worship Seating
Church Seating
George Kreger

My Favorite Church Chair?

Back in the 1980’s a new Christian Conference Center opened for ministry about an hour from where I pastor.  A wealthy businessman had donated several million dollars to make this ministry a reality.  As a condition of his gift, everything about this project was carried out in an excellent manner.   He believed the Lord’s work was worthy of excellence and

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Save Your Church Money Blog
Church Furniture
George Kreger

Taking Church Furniture to Market: Part Three – Hybrid Approach

Our church furnishings manufacturer from Parts One and Two of this series of articles begins producing church furnishings. As before they have developed an innovative line of church furniture that will serve churches across the country well. How will they take their new church furnishing line to market? In Part One, our manufacturer chose a “Manufacturer Direct” approach for their

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Church Chairs / Worship Seating
Church Seating
George Kreger

Church Seating Criterion #6: HANDLING

Handling church chairs and seating normally only gets attention when the chairs need to be moved regularly, and even then only by those individuals who have to actually move them.  Here are some factors to consider to help appreciate the efforts of the chair movers in your church. Weight: The most common style of worship chair weighs around 20 pounds. 

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Church Chairs / Worship Seating
Church Seating
George Kreger

Church Seating Criterion #4: DURABILITY

Church Furniture must be durable.  Every week the church furnishings found throughout the facility will be used by groups within and without the church, and by groups of every age.  All church furnishings need to have a high degree of durability, and this is especially true for the most used type of furniture, church seating.  Let’s take a look at

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Church Chairs / Worship Seating
Church Seating
George Kreger

Church Seating Criterion #3: STORAGE

Now that we’ve looked at the top two church seating criterion, cost and comfort (see my previous two articles), we’ll move on to other five.  Each of these five are very important, but normally not given the consideration they deserve.  We’ll start this group of five additional criterion by examining “chair storage“. When I counsel churches on chair purchases, I

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