New rules for church construction.
In a culture increasingly hostile toward new church construction the rules have changed for constructing new church buildings. The new church buildings going up today are smaller, multipurpose, multivenue, local community-centric and environmentally friendly buildings. You can read more about this revolution in church construction on my blog post New Rules for Sacred Space.
The majority of multisite churches are not maximizing the model.
Most of the 5,000+ multisite churches are stuck at two or three campuses because they don’t know how or aren’t willing to make the organizational changes necessary to fully benefit from the multisite model. The majority of multisite churches are still functioning like a monosite church with campuses instead of a church of campuses. If this describes your church take the Multisite Diagnostic Test to determine how well your church is managing this paradigm shift.
Multisite churches with four or more campuses.
Even though the majority of multisite churches are not fully maximizing the multisite model as previously mentioned, more are growing beyond three campuses. The fourth campus is the “game-changer” that typically forces churches to change their structure, which positions them to take full advantage of the model and grow even beyond four campuses. These churches of four or more campuses typically have a full-time multisite director on the lead team, a dedicated campus pastor at the original campus and a well-defined central support system.