Brown Brown & Associates 'What's New' Blog

By Matthew Nolan B.Sc., LMT, MTI, CEP, CPT

‘Reach out and touch someone’… some of you may be old enough to remember when AT&T used this as their marketing slogan.  In these more modern days we have a number of technological advances that allows for us to remain in ‘contact’ with our friends, families and well, just about anyone and everyone!  While high-tech has made it possible to keep up minute-by-minute with the world, our need for plain, old-fashioned touch is just as important.  In his landmark book, ‘Touching’, Ashley Montagu calls touch the ‘mother of the senses’ and states that it is the first of our senses to become ‘functional’ during fetal development.  He also recounts how in the early 1900’s doctors in medical institutions could not understand how mortality rates for infants admitted was almost 100% for each institution.  It wasn’t until Dr. Fritz Talbot was visiting a hospital in Germany that he discovered a ‘secret’.  He witnessed an old woman carrying around a baby on her hip and when he inquired as to who she was, found out that when a baby wasn’t doing well and the medical team did everything they could, they called her in and she would ‘turn the child around’.   Dr Talbot brought back to the U.S. the concept of touching infants; holding them, rocking them, stroking them.  Amazingly infant mortality rates dropped from about 35% to just10% in one year!

Dr. Tiffany Fields established the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School Of Medicine in 1992.  Her goal:  to really understand the importance of touch by creating studies that look at the impact of touch throughout a lifespan.  Touch is so powerful that she list the benefits on the website (www.miami.edu/touch-research) and includes this statement:  (touch) “enhances attentiveness, alleviates depressive symptoms, reduces pain, reduces stress hormones and improves immune function.”

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Computer Model of Phase One

MASTER PLAN

FLOOR PLAN

First Baptist Church of Bells, Texas is working with Brown, Brown & Associates – Architects to Master Plan their new church as they relocated to 6.5 acres of prime land on Highway 82 in Bells, Texas. The church projects needing seating for 200 members and plans to build and appropriate Phase One building including:
• Worship Area (seating 200)
• Gathering Areas
• Kitchen
• Administration Area
• Classrooms
• Parking

Brown, Brown & Associates, the leading architectural firm for new or revitalization church construction in the Dallas and surrounding area, enters its third era of continued dedication and devotion to benefit area congregations. The architectural group was established in 1946 by John Hall Brown, Sr., and quickly gained repute for its work in church construction for new buildings or revitalization projects in Dallas and the surrounding areas. Brown, Brown & Associates was carried on by John Hall Brown, Jr., and is now owned by the founder’s grandson, J. Hardy Brown.

The Brown, Brown & Associates’ architectural team specializes in new and revitalizations of church construction in the Dallas area, maintaining a tie to many local ministries. With over fifty years of experience, Brown, Brown & Associates, Brown, Brown & Associates enjoy a positive reputation that continues to grow. Their successful new or revitalization projects in the Dallas, Richardson, Carrollton, Frisco, Southlake, and other surrounding areas has secured Brown, Brown & Associates as the leading architectural firm for church construction in the Dallas metroplex.

Works for the premier church architectural firm include Custer Road United Methodist Church and First Baptist Church of Carrollton, along with construction projects outside of the city itself such as Grace Evangelical Free Church in Lucas, First Baptist Church in Red Oak, Stonebridge United Methodist Church in McKinney and many more. These outstanding church designs provide physical evidence of the excellence created when a congregation works in tandem with the visionaries of Brown, Brown & Associates.

The firm focuses all of its energy on one project at a time in order to ensure the highest quality and total client satisfaction for each and every job, taking on only three to five large projects a year in order to completely devote itself to the requirements of the ministry at hand. J. Hardy Brown works as the lead designer for each project, meeting frequently with clients during every stage of new church construction and ensuring that a congregation receives exactly the building it desires. Hardy Brown oversees every aspect of the work, directing each aspect of the construction process and guaranteeing the accurate execution (and complete satisfaction) of a congregation’s vision for their church.

Any congregation will be delighted with Brown, Brown & Associates’ passion for its work and dedication to a church’s vision of their new church construction or revitalization project in the Dallas and surrounding areas. To contact the team at Brown, Brown & Associates to discuss details of your church construction project or for more information on Brown, Brown & Associates past projects, pricing and available services, please visit www.BBA-A.com.