In 2010 Jim & DeDe Wood launched a new campus of our church in Paxton, Illinois, a rural county seat town 30-miles north of our original church here in Urbana. On Easter of this year (2015) this vibrant campus moved out from under our larger church to become a church plant or independent church, Hope Vineyard […]
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4 Keys to Great Communication in a Multisite Church
Communication is challenging in any church or organization. It’s especially challenging in the matrixed organizational system of a multisite church, which has lines of communication and accountability running vertically from top to bottom—from senior leadership down to the campuses—and horizontally across ministries. Things are further complicated by the geographic distance separating campuses and team members. […]
Your Three Multisite Video Options: One-Week, One-Day, One-Minute Delay
If you are using video to deliver messages in your multisite strategy as our church does, you have three options. We’ve used all three over the last four and a half years of our multisite journey. Let me tell you our story and the advantages and disadvantages of each of these three methods. Of course […]
8 Things You Need in Your New Multisite Campus Facility
Our church has launched four new campuses in the last four years. In the process we have learned that we should look for eight things when searching for the ideal building for a new campus. Worship Space. Obviously, you need space for worship services when you launch. We have always started every campus with two services. […]
3 Tools to Assess and Improve Your Church’s Health
Like many of you, I’ve sat in countless leadership meetings. So often at these meetings we are trying to figure out the state of our church and ministries and then come up with plans for improving them. Someone at the meeting might say something like, “Our youth ministry is a mess.” That might be an […]
Four Keys to Using Direct Mail to Help You Publicize Your Campus Launch
In the last four years our church has launched four new campuses in outlying county seats here in east central Illinois. When we launch a new campus, our goal is to launch strong. We want momentum and a large enough core of people to sustain the key ministries of the church with workers and to […]
Three Reasons Your Next Church Campus Should Launch with Two Services
In the last four years our church has launched four new campuses in other cities. Each time we have launched with two Sunday morning services, and I foresee us doing two services every time we start a new campus. There are three reasons why we do this and why your church should consider this, too. […]
The Simple Key to Launching a New Multisite Campus Well
In the last four years our church has launched four new campuses. I feel like the fourth time we finally did it right, with our communication, support team, and systems working together well. The key to getting this right was one simple concept—weekly launch team meetings. I’ll explain what I mean by that in a […]
Four Great Guides for Your Multisite Journey
There are just four books written on doing multisite church. I have benefitted immensely from all of them and commend them to you as four excellent guides for your multisite journey. To succeed with multisite there’s a lot you need to learn, and these books are a great starting point. Here they are: The Multi-site […]
Where Should Your Church Start a New Campus?
If your church is getting serious about using a multisite strategy to reach more people for Christ, one of the first questions you’ll probably ask is, “Where should we start a new campus?” To answer that question I am going to outline three ways churches have picked places and then I’ll tell you our church’s […]