Category: Multi Site

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....

Multi-Site EPODs: Promoting the Preferred

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: Establishing the Essentials

Many moons ago I wrote a post called You Need an EPOD. It was an ode to one of the tried-and-true tools in our multi-site toolbox, a document called – you guessed it – an...

4 Reasons Consistency Matters in Multi-Site

I’ve long said that there are as many ways of doing multi-site church as there are multi-site churches. In fact, I’ll do you one better: take 100 multi-site churches, put them in a room, and...

Multi-Site: How to Build Volunteer Culture Across Campuses

In the past, we’ve discussed how to build both church culture and staff culture in a multi-site organization. But one key group we’ve left out of the process is our volunteers. If we really believe...