The year 2020 has been memorable for many reasons. 2020 has been especially important to The McKnight Group because it marks our fiftieth year in the church design and building business. We’ve told our history through our podcast series, which appropriately concludes with the thoughts and memories of our long-time employees. This group of people, all of whom have [...]

Throughout this year, we’ve been commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of The McKnight Group. Over those fifty years, many aspects of church design have changed significantly, and we talk about those changes in our fiftieth anniversary podcast entitled “Changes.” In a prior post, we shared some excerpts from the podcast related to the physical changes in typical church building designs. [...]

Fifty years can make a lot of difference, or none at all. This year The McKnight Group is commemorating our fiftieth anniversary as a church building organization. When we began the company in 1970, church buildings looked very much like churches built fifty years before, or even 150 years before: a long, narrow worship space, filled with pews and [...]

Highlighting more from our podcast series we created to commemorate The McKnight Group’s fifty years of church building and design, we look more in-depth at some of the ups and downs throughout our history. In our last post, we shared excerpts from the podcast entitled “Tough Times,” which addressed the interest rate spike that occurred during the early years [...]

Last month, The McKnight Group officially turned 50. As we commemorate our 50th anniversary year, we’ve been presenting a special podcast on our history. In this post, we share excerpts from the first part of the episode “Tough Times,” where our founder, Homer McKnight, talks about how The McKnight Group survived some early challenging times and still grew as [...]