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Faith in the spaces
Does your congregation want to bring in more children and families? Most do, and some are simply desperate to attract them. Yet many congregational leaders don’t understand how their buildings either fail to accommodate the needs of parents and children or how they actually repel them. How does your congregation fare on this issue?
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