Category: Multi Site

What You Must Know as Your Church Moves from Portable to Permanent (part five)

We’re wrapping up a series on taking a congregation from a portable location to a permanent one. Don’t jump in mid-stream: get started here. You made it. Not only to the end of this mini-series...

What You Must Know as Your Church Moves from Portable to Permanent (part four)

We’re continuing a series on taking a congregation from a portable location to a permanent one. Don’t jump in mid-stream: get started here. There are any number of motivations involved in taking a weekly gathering...

What You Must Know as Your Church Moves from Portable to Permanent (part three)

We’re continuing a series on taking a congregation from a portable location to a permanent one. Don’t jump in mid-stream: get started here. Every portable location has its rhythms: drive to the storage unit. Hitch...

What You Must Know as Your Church Moves from Portable to Permanent (part two)

We’re continuing a series on taking a congregation from a portable location to a permanent one. Don’t jump in mid-stream: get started here. An ode to mobile church life: There is something extremely special about...

What You Must Know as Your Church Moves from Portable to Permanent (part one)

If there’s one thing that scrappy church plants and megachurch multi-site models have in common, it’s that many of us spend our fair share of time in elementary school cafeterias, high school auditoriums, and suburban...

Multi-Site: Guest Services and Launching a New Campus (part three)

We’re wrapping up a three-part series on our central Guest Services team’s role in launching new campuses. Get started here. In the first post in this series, I told you the three primary areas we...

Multi-Site: Guest Services and Launching a New Campus (part two)

We’re in the middle of a three-part series on our central Guest Services team’s role in launching new campuses. Get started here. In the first post in this series, I told you the three primary...

Multi-Site: Guest Services and Launching a New Campus (part one)

Q: When the Summit launches a new campus, what role does your Guest Services team play in that process? Training content, schedule, plans, etc.. [Question submitted in a recent Connections Confab] A: Once upon a...

Multi-Site: 6 Best Practices for a Campus Visit

If you serve in a central role in a multi-site context, you are going to make campus visits. Or at least you should be making campus visits. You should strive to be a church hopper....

Multi-Site: How Many Staff Should You Hire for a New Campus?

Q: Can you talk about what staff roles we should launch with at a new campus? Does this change when you go from portable to permanent location? [Question submitted in a recent Confab gathering] A:...