How to answer multi-site church questions

Spotted in Jim Tomberlin's ThirdQuarterConsulting.com Multi-Sightings e-newsletter:

"Hope Community Church in Raleigh, North Carolina is one of those churches seizing the opportunity by launching two campuses this fall. Check out the great video of the Multi-Site Town Hall meeting where senior pastor Mike Lee cast the vision with executive pastor Dave Patchin. They introduced the campus pastor and fielded questions from the congregation. One of the best multi-site envisioning experiences I have witnessed. Watch and learn!"

This is a great example of explaining to normal people in a congregation about launching a multi-site campus (aka satellite location). Watch the Town Hall videos: part 1 and part 2. The town hall presented a great deal of relevant details, covering the why, the how, the costs, and also answered people's questions, with a good dose of laughter and joy. Funniest comment I heard about why start a new location, in order to bring church to the people, instead of the other way around: "Jesus could be pastoring 30 minutes away and I'm still not going to go... I'd listen to the podcast."

In addition to the town hall, there's also a web page with frequently asked questions and more info about Hope's Multi-Site Initiative.

Know of other great online resources for how churches have communicated with a congregation about launching a second location, in essence changing from a typical one-campus church to a multi-site church? Add a comment and share!

// DJ Chuang is a Director at Leadership Network, launching digital initiatives, and connecting multi-site churches and Asian American pastors.

Comments

[Doug]

This is good stuff DJ. When we were casting the vision we did something similar and depended a lot on a blog we set up at www.suncresteast.org. Since we launched, I reorganized it slightly and have most of that early stuff under the tab "multi-site." It has worked effectively for us.

thanks for the great post.