If there’s one thing that multi-site churches hold in common, it’s that we sign up for heartbreak. Think about it: we are intentionally creating space for some of our best leaders to leave. We are encouraging friends to spin out of our Sunday morning …
Last Sunday saw the public launch of our tenth Summit campus (twelve, if you count our prison campuses). As you know, there are roughly a billion moving parts that go into a campus launch, give or take a half-million. Entire books have been written …
Each week as I read through our first-time guest surveys, I know there will be some predictable trends. First-timers are prone to talk about the organizational hospitality they sensed when they arrived, the excitement of the worship service, or the inviting atmosphere of the …
I’ve said before that there are as many ways to arrange a multi-site church as there are multi-site churches. If your structure includes some form of central oversight, or depends on campuses to have a similar DNA, then this post will be helpful. Years …
If you are a multi-site church, chances are that at least one of your locations is in a facility you do not own. For us, we currently have just over half of our eleven campuses in rented / leased / borrowed spaces: one middle …
Multi-site structure is a funny thing. Not always “funny-ha-ha.” Sometimes it’s more like “Funny as in I’m laughing to keep from taking a long drive off of a short pier.” If you’re in a multi-site church that has a centralized staffing structure with oversight …
I’ve mentioned before that there are as many multi-site models as there are multi-site churches. But today’s question centers around one of leadership: How do you lead campuses from a central role? Here’s how the structure works in our model: my “direct reports” are the …
If you’re a connoisseur of certain retail and fast-food chains like I am, you no doubt have picked up on some discrepancies over the years. One retail giant will have exceptionally good customer service in one location, and not-so-good service in a location just …
If you know anything about multi-site churches, you know that there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all. There are almost as many ways to do multi-site as there are churches that do multi-site. In a similar vein, there are multiple ways of executing particular ministries within …
It’s a conversation I’ve had at least four times in the last couple of weeks. It’s a question of accountability and org charts, of DNA and influence, of standards and procedures. If you’re a multi-site church, you likely either operate from a centralized structure …