Category: Multi Site

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:...

Multi-Site: Context, Collaboration, and Pushback

In the world of multi-site churches, the pendulum often swings between campus autonomy and central control. I think that swing can be a good and healthy thing, and isn’t something to be avoided. That’s where...

Multi-Site: Supplying Portable vs. Permanent Campuses

Q: With non-permanent locations have you had to change the way [things] look, or some things that just don’t work well with a permanent location? [asked in a recent session of our Connections Confab] A:...

Multi-Site EPODs: Campus Teams vs. Central Teams

We continue a miniseries based on this long-ago post titled Multi-Site: You Need an EPOD. An EPOD is one of the tried-and-true tools in our multi-site toolbox, and keeps us on the literal same page....

Multi-Site EPODs: Defining the Don’ts

We continue a miniseries based on this long-ago post titled Multi-Site: You Need an EPOD. An EPOD is one of the tried-and-true tools in our multi-site toolbox, and keeps us on the literal same page....

Multi-Site EPODs: Opining the Optional

We continue a miniseries based on this long-ago post titled Multi-Site: You Need an EPOD. An EPOD is one of the tried-and-true tools in our multi-site toolbox, and keeps us on the literal same page....