Multisite Unstuck

 

We believe a healthy multisite strategy can help you lead more people in your region to Christ.

And we have a proven process for where you are in the multisite journey.

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Multisite works best when healthy, growing churches expand into new locations to reach more people and have a greater Kingdom impact.

 

You replicate who you already are. Which means without a clear assessment of where you are today, and without a clear strategy in four key areas, going multisite can get your church multi-stuck.

Ministry Strategy

How do we disciple people?

Multisite Strategy

How do we lead one church in different communities?

Expansion Strategy

How do we optimally launch a new campus?

Execution Strategy

How do we put this plan into place?

The Unstuck Group helped reverse our plateau.

'We found ourselves at a place where we knew something wasn't quite right but we couldn't quite put our finger on it. We didn't want to wait until we got really stuck.'

David McQueen

Beltway Park Church

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Our Multisite Approach

We offer two different multisite consulting processes, tailored for your church depending on where you are in your journey.

Both processes follow this overall flow:

Assess Ministry Health

Get perspective before you plan. Assess the church's level of health for multisite in 10 key areas.

Multisite Planning

Develop a clear action plan to launch or strengthen your multisite strategy.

Staffing & Structure

Position your ministry team to execute at its highest potential. Find yourself equipped with a clear staffing plan to support your vision for multisite.

Implementation Phase

Take the steps that will lead your church to experience sustained health as your ministry footprint grows.

Confirming the discipleship path you can replicate
Establishing a ministry model for each location
Determining the teaching model (video vs. live teachers)
Clarifying decision rights (campus vs. central)
Planning central support resources
Identifying & assessing future locations
Setting an optimal schedule for launching new campuses
Developing a candidate profile for the campus pastor role
Defining success for new campuses
Outlining initial staff and volunteer leadership teams
Building an action plan for next steps
Developing a launch plan for future campuses

Six months after engaging our team for church consulting, 9 out of 10 pastors recommend us to another church-because they are seeing real results.

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"The talks around communication, decision making and staff structure were so defining and helpful that we now know they may have saved our second location a painful experience or possibly even not making it. It's going really well and our processes in these areas are actually working."

Shayne O'Brien

Rockpointe Church

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"Our big question was how does multisite impact the staff and how we lead together, relate to each other, and make ministry decisions going forward. Our #1 win for the strategic planning process is that we were given the right tools, to make the right decisions, at the right times!"

Jim Johnson

Preston Trail Community Church

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"Our lack of a clearly defined system of operating for our campuses was causing frustration at both the central and campus level. Now people don't just see a dream-they see a path to achieving those dreams with God's help."

Toby Slough

Cross Timbers Community Church

We're passionate about helping churches lead more people in more places to a relationship with Jesus.

We have experience serving multisite churches across the country: helping many clarify and structure a current multisite strategy, as well as launch for the first time or effectively navigate a church merger.

Our team has 100+ years of combined experience leading in effective multisite churches.

by Wade BurnettSenior Associate, Multisite Solutions

Recently, I made a significant shift from local church leadership to the world of multisite consulting. The reason? I believe one church in multiple locations is an instinctive step forward in developing a culture of genuine multiplication in our churches.

In his book Spark: Igniting a Culture of Multiplication, Todd Wilson identifies three different types of churches embodying three distinct messages to their people:

Subtraction – “Please stay!” Addition – “Please come!” Multiplication – “Please go!”

In America, the vast majority of our churches are firmly entrenched in subtraction mode. Over 80% of American churches consist of less than two hundred people, and many of those are declining and dying.

One big exception, of course, is the American megachurch. Many megachurches have grown so fast and so large that they often run out of space or run out of capital well before they have maximized their reach in a given community. It was out of this precise tension that a solution was born — multisite church. One church in multiple locations.

In the fall of 2001, at the very beginning of the multisite concept, a number of early multisite pioneers and
trailblazers came together in Chicago to share their experiences and learn from one another. It was a historic gathering that gave birth to the multisite church movement. A progression of concrete advancements emerged from these initial gatherings, as did a number of enduring relationships among leaders that would serve the multisite movement for years to come.

Today, nearly fifteen years later, the multisite movement has advanced to a place of recognized leaders and best practices. We know how to do multisite now and we know how to do it well. The multisite strategy has allowed megachurches of 2,000 or more in weekend attendance to become giga-churches of 10,000 or more in attendance. At the same time, multisite has also expanded into a growth strategy for churches of all different sizes. Out of the 5,000 plus multisite churches in America today, only 20% are megachurches. The rest are small and midsize churches taking the best of the current model and adapting it to their unique contexts.

Despite these incredible advancements in the multisite world, there is one thing that was true about multisite church at the very beginning and that is still true today: multisite remains primarily an addition model of church. While multisite does indeed take church to the people, our primary message to those same people remains “Please come!”

This is not a bad thing. After all, addition is much better than subtraction! The multisite church has been a tremendous step forward that God has used in immeasurable ways and it blew fresh wind into the sails of many churches. Multisite changed the way we think about church.

Now, though, it is time to change the way we think about multisite. A growing number of successful multisite church leaders are wrestling with how to move from growth by addition to a movement-making strategy of true multiplication. The challenge is not to pit addition and multiplication strategies against one another. Instead, the hope is to inspire and learn from one another: how can we embrace both addition and multiplication strategies in our churches? Or more importantly, how do we take the people God has added to our congregations and see our churches really begin multiplying at the individual, group and congregational levels? What would we have to change? And what would have to change in us?

If you lead a multisite church with four or more campuses and desire to go beyond multisite addition to multisite multiplication, please consider applying to one of our Radical Multisite Learning Communities beginning this fall. Only a few spots left!


 

This is a sponsored post from MultiSite Solutions, one of our Strategic Partners at TonyMorganLive.com.

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