Multisites & Mergers
“Oh, we’ll never be a multi-site. We’re too small.” Not so. Multi-site is still growing! Church mergers are happening all the time, making for a strong union of two like churches. Or a church might plant a sister church in a nearby community, reaching out to a different racial mix. What are the strategies?
Six Shifts Changing the Landscape of the Church Space
The church building and religious-use facility industry is being dramatically and permanently altered by factors that began emerging at the dawn of the 21st century. In 1989, popular author Ken Follett wrote a riveting [...]
Talking Multisite
The following question and answer dialogue is between Bob Wood, a Campus Pastor with Central Christian Church and Greg Rupley, one of our students in the XPastor Online Course. They will discuss Bob's experiences in helping [...]
Multisite vs. Multi-venue
The excitement of seeing God bring more people to the doors of the church—as He works in the hearts and lives of our neighbors and friends—can also bring challenges. The reality of physical space—worship [...]
Church Mergers: Legal and Financial Matters
Each year, thousands of U.S. churches—plus tens of thousands of others elsewhere around the globe—are sensing that they could fulfill their God-given mission better together than separately. They're exploring new ways to join forces for [...]
Making Church Mergers Work
Two friends of XPastor have written an insightful book, Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work. Jim Tomberlin and Warren Bird have collaborated to bring us a great work on church mergers. Here is what Amazon [...]
On Being A Campus Pastor
For the first several years of our marriage, my wife and I were “renters.” We began in a wonderful, two-bedroom apartment. Upon hearing that we were pregnant with our second child, we moved into a [...]
The Facility Challenge in Church Planting
In May 2006, the rented building that our 2-year-old church plant was using was no longer available to us. We were given two weeks to vacate and secure a new location, suitable for 200 [...]
“Virtual Pastor” via Video Venue
I walked in the darkened auditorium and saw Toby Slough pacing a sixteen-foot path on the stage. On two side screens, I saw close-ups of Toby. There was a blink and Toby disappeared from center stage—then [...]
Dallas: The New Capital of Evangelicalism
In Christianity Today, Associate Editor Edward Gilbreath presents a thesis which could serve as a cogent rationale for the selection of case study churches. In the cover story, Gilbreath writes on “The New Capital [...]
Multisite Matters: Lessons Learned
On September 13, NewPointe Community Church in Dover, Ohio, embarked on a journey into the realm of multisite or multiple campus church. We decided to launch two additional campuses on the same day, in two [...]