Multi-Site Churches: My 2 Cents
Starting multiple campuses of a church has become wildly popular the last few years. My personal experience, along with witnessing a bunch of churches that have tried it and failed, is that most churches should not do it. There’s been some research on this showing that churches that are under (I think) 1,500 people don’t do well with multi-sites, while churches with more than 1,500 do.
A lot of people say you shouldn’t start a second campus unless your original campus is bursting with people. (And so basically you’re starting the second campus to open up more seats for more people.) I disagree. I say you shouldn’t start a second campus unless your original campus is bursting with volunteers. If you have too many volunteers, and layers of leadership, and multiplying teams, then you’re the kind of church that can pull off another campus.
Just my 2 Cents, but then again, I’m always right…