Comments on: 5 Multi-site Mistakes

By: MULTI-SITE as strategy … is hot « Beyond the Course

MULTI-SITE as strategy … is hot « Beyond the Course — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:54:54 +0000

[...] Tony Morgan identified five key factors when launching a new site: [...]

By: Best Church Planting Blogs of the past week | Planting Space

Best Church Planting Blogs of the past week | Planting Space — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:16:14 +0000

[...] 5 Multi-Site Mistakes by Tony Morgan A handful of mistakes Tony sees churches making when they jump into multi-site. [...]

By: Mike Filicicchia

Mike Filicicchia — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:40:29 +0000

I have a question for Tony and the rest of you with multi-site experience regarding point #2. Do you have any rule of thumb regarding distance to the original site?? I mean, I’m just totally clueless regarding this issue in particular. Any tips would be helpful.

By: kevin russell

kevin russell — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:51:43 +0000

After the right leader, I would submit a clarified vision is the second most important thing you can do to set yourself up for success in the multi-site approach.

This past spring we launched our first campus and are planning the launch of our second campus for next fall. (months, not weeks!) We’ve learned it’s critical to have a clear vision, first as a non-multisite church BEFORE you turn to a multi-site approach, secondly, a clarified vision for the campuses.

Clarified vision all around will help your existing staff align and own it, and give your new campus staff clear expectations.

By: Randy Vaughn - 1429

Randy Vaughn - 1429 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:51:29 +0000

The stat is #5 about 18-24 months to start giving – I would love to share that stat with some of the leadership of church looking at a multi-site situation, but as well, a new church plant – I think they are pushing the expectation level for the new church to already be giving generously toward self-sufficiency. If anyone has any documentation or another supporting article, I’d love that as well.
-Randy, Fort Worth

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:01:04 +0000

Verbage: Not knowing what to call the multisite. Ie. Campus, satellite, church.

Intention: Clearly cummunicating WHY we are a multisite church and why each campus is the way it is.

Systems/Infrastructure: Leadership systems don’t need to “grow” as you add campuses, they have to be reinvented at various stages.

Thanks for your insight.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:23:13 +0000

Couldn’t agree with you more. We struggled with the music, got too big of a venue, didn’t fund the technology, equipment, or marketing properly, but had a good leader to manage through it. About the only two things we nailed were the children’s area and the campus pastor. The site is running 200+, but had a rough start. Overall, it was absolutely worth it as we are reaching more people for Christ and we learned a ton for future sites.

By: Sandy Gibbes

Sandy Gibbes — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:22:19 +0000

Awesome post Tony.

We work with churches a lot who are using the multi-site model. It’s important to gain as much knowledge as possible before you launch a second site. I will be deferring people to this post for quite a while. In the meantime, if you know of any churches that need help with these steps, we can do that.

Until then.

By: John Carroll

John Carroll — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:45:29 +0000

Great thoughts Tony.

We just went through a year process from deciding to go multi-site to actually launching.

One thing we experienced is people don’t expect the same, they just don’t want less effort with what you got. Lowering the quality is not acceptable, but reproducing the exact same deal is not expected.