At a recent Leadership Network Multi-site Churches Leadership COmmunity, we listened in as one of the Mars Hill Church in Seattle staffers told the story – “We’ve been at it for 9 years as a church and in the early years, we were multi site. Then we bought an old warehouse building, rehab’d it and thought we were good for a while. Once we moved into the new space, new growth quickly outstripped our building and parking capacity. So now we’re multi site again. We currently do 7 services in 2 locations for 4500 people. We had double the anticipated number of people show up at our first service at our second location. Just recently, Mars Hill was given another building for free, although it needs renovating before we can use it. Given where we’ve been and where we seem to be going, we have 2 big questions: 1) when and where is the right time to start a new site? 2) how do we make sure the impact we have on the community fits with our vision?”
What are the questions that you and your team face?
You can learn more about the Mars Hill story by reading Confessions of a Reformission Rev by lead pastor, Mark Driscoll.
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