I'm not sure how these bigger churches are supplying the money for the building. We only have about 100 regular attendees in ours and we just renovated our sanctuary for the first time since 1970 something. It cost around 300,000. We did a special offering twice a month designating on the check it was to go toward building fund. We didn't start building untill we had all the money. We made no changes to regular giving. We also do have a food pantry that is open two days out of the month to give 3 meals a day for 7 days. We are feeding close to 300 people on that. We might not be like most churches that have a lot of paid staff. We only have one paid person, the pastor. There is churches around here that don't even pay the preacher.