Leadership Network recently hosted Rich Birch from Liquid Church as a resource for our Multi-site JumpStart Innovation Lab. The churches that participated in this lab had all recently launched a new campus - from nine months to three weeks earlier. Rich provided some excellent insights about organizational changes that have to happen as churches enter the multi-site church world.
You can listen to the entire presentation here or check out the following notes.
According to Rich’s experience with both Liquid Church where he currently serves, The Meeting House where he formerly served and interaction with churches he has served through Multi-Site Solutions, the following things must change as a church launches their first campus:
1. They must move from staff driven to volunteer fueled.
2. They must engage intentional leadership development instead of simple intuitive leadership development.
3. They must distinguish between the nice to haves and the need to haves.
Three other random learnings (Rich’s words!) include:
1. Multi-site should not be the sum of your vision. Rather it should be a tool to aid the larger goal.
2. Churches often take longer to think through “campus three” than “campus two.”
3. Audit and adjust the eco-system – measure and compare campuses for growth and effectiveness of the parts and the whole.
What are you learning from new campus launches? Would love to get your comments.
Greg Ligon
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email – greg.ligon@leadnet.org
hmm some really good though simple thoughts.
Intuitive Leadership Development V Intentional is certainly where we have been lacking. We are moving towards planting our third service but it will be the first with a totally separate team (clashing with another service time)
Posted by: Josh | May 08, 2010 at 06:11 AM