Welcome back to our monthly All About Multisite podcast! I’m chatting with a group of multisite ninjas and answering your questions about the ins and outs of launching new campuses. Our group is as follows:

Natalie Frisk is our family ministry expert. She is a key leader from The Meeting House. This church has 19 (!) locations and is doing all kinds of great stuff, including a killer kids’ & youth curriculum that they give away for free. Natalie’s a lot of fun and will have so many great insights around leading in a thriving multisite church.

Greg Curtis is our guest connections and assimilation expert. He leads at Eastside Christian Church, one of the fastest growing churches in the country, and literally, is the “go to” source for getting people to stick and stay in the church. (Eastside has assimilated something like 1,500 people in the last 18 months!) His coaching practice around assimilation is amazing.

Ben Stapley is our communications and service programming expert. Ben is one of the most helpful leaders I know. His day job is the Weekend Experience Director at Christ Fellowship in Miami, but he does so much to help other leaders with the “big show” part of church world.

And I, Rich, have been involved with 14 different campus launches over the years and enjoy helping churches that are thinking about multisite.

We are here to answer your questions about running a multisite church and are excited to be here today with our tenth episode.

Open Question: What’s

another church you’d love to visit this year? (And why?)

* Natalie – One would be Life Church simply because I’ve never been and have a bunch a friends that have worked there over the years. And also I’d like to visit Liquid Church because I heard there were some cool guys who worked there that I know. I would love to go visit some churches that are doing an incredible job of leading a variety of ethnic backgrounds.* Greg – I think of Connexus because of all kinds of stuff I’d love to see. But you know one church I find myself fantasizing about is this tiny Baptist church near east Los Angeles where I met Jesus and I want to go back.* Ben – I would be interested in ones that are crushing the service experience—ones I can think of are Central Church in Vegas, some local churches in Orlando and Menlo Church in Menlo Park. * Rich – I’d love to get a chance to visit each one of your churches and spend a weekend with you and see you do your thing.

We’ve just launched a three-part video series that is

free and one of these videos is designed to help your church grow. If you want

to get this video series, then while you’re listening on your phone open up the

messenger app and send the word CHURCHGROWTH to 44222. The first launched

yesterday, the next will launch in a couple of days. They are free and designed

to help your church grow.

Just one

“roundtable” discussion today: HELP! Our campuses aren’t growing! What advice

would you give to leaders who are looking to see their campuses reach more

people?

Focus on these three parts: Pray, Plan, and Promote. Ben advises

that you start with why you want growth, for God’s glory or your own? Communicate

the clarity of this glory for God to the staff and congregation, and ask for

His blessing. Then take a look at how you are bringing together your

staff team in prayer and seeking God’s direction. Discern God’s Will Together by Ruth Haley Barton helps church

leadership lean into God and listen to His voice. Natalie says when you do that