Yesterday I shared the first part of what I am sharing on Thursday to a Conference on Multi-site churches. I'm sharing our Story as Oasis Church, and our journey. Tonight I am sharing the Wins we've seen since we began our 2nd and 3rd Campus. Yes, we have learned a lot of things through our failures and mistakes, but there are also a ton of WINS!!
I will do two more posts on the 7 Nights of Worship part also.
Below is the list of wins taken from about 50 different Wins given by our Leadership Staff. These men and women are the ones who have done most of the leading out on this huge effort and continue to lead it. They are an awesome group along with all our Lay Leaders involved. I distilled down the many Wins given to just the 10 below.
Wins with Multi-Site:
1. Gives the Church a Missions mind-set, you find the missional and missionary
persons.
2. Gives greater opportunity to more people to be developed in leadership, and
the Arts/Worship.
3. Gives greater opportunity to reach people where they live. Culturally more
diverse than all coming out to the suburban campus, or vice versa.
4. Expands your church’s Vision outside the four walls of the present campus.
5. Gets much of the church involved in a Vision, Project, Mission larger than
yourselves.
6. A large, healthy Central Campus, gives a new campus the resources and
momentum that a new church plant does not normally have. Support is more
than just finances.
7. Opportunities to grow beyond a limited campus/parking and location.
8. Combine efforts of outreach, communications, missions etc. without recreating
the wheel in so many areas.
9. Gives gifted laymen and young pastors the opportunity to Teach/Preach. We
use a team teaching approach, of between 7-8 teachers. Rotating around to the
campuses. NO SUPERSTAR!! No name attached to the Sign, TV, Bulletins!!
10.Campuses begin to complement each other. It’s not all from one way -- it’s a
two way street. (For a suburban campus, with little homeless and benevolent
opportunities it gives us an outlet to expose our people to the urban setting).
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Guy,
Welcome to multi-site church world!
Your insights are right-on about multi-site. Agreed, if you can talk a church out of it, they shouldn't do it. Multi-site is for those churches that become convinced it is the best way to fulfill their vision and redemptive potential.
Go forth and multiply!
Jim Tomberlin
"MultiSiteGuy"
Posted by: Jim Tomberlin | October 10, 2009 at 10:23 AM