Recently I was talking with a church leader in a multisite church that broke my heart. This leader was reflecting on when their central services counterpart would come and visit their campus to "help". "They just show and vomit all over our people ..." this leader said. Too much information...

It seems like about a dozen churches across the country get all the attention of church leaders when it comes to looking for innovative approaches to ministry. Even though there are over 100,000 churches in the country we all seem fixated on just a few! Today I wanted to highlight...

I'm a fan of churches not owning locations and being portable. I know there is a stigma amongst church leadership types against mobile ministry but I really do think churches that have permanent locations are the ones missing out!  If you are looking at launching a new location for your church here are...

What would you do if there was a shooting at the theater that you rent for your church on a Saturday evening? What if it was the night before Easter? Today we have a guest post from Tim Day, the senior pastor of The Meeting House in Toronto. The Meeting...

Today we have a guest post from Andy Tilly. Andy is the Pastor of Family Ministries at Crosstimber Church in Dallas.  He's an innovative leader in one of most dynamic ministries in the country. He's a speaker, author, consultant, film maker and pretty nice guy! I'm thankful that Andy was...

The language we use as church leaders has the potential to shape the culture of our church because it frames peoples thinking. Often the language we use when we launch a new ministry can set it on an unintended course simply through the way we've helped people understand it. Here...

In the coming weeks hundreds of new campuses will launch for multisite churches across the country.  The process is a lot like birthing a new baby . . . often times we are so focused on the delivery we don't spend time thinking about what happens after the new thing...

It would appear that basically every church in North America that is growing is either thinking about multisite or already has at least one campus....

At some point during the launch of your next multisite campus you need to get people into a room and ask them to join the team of people looking to help launch out the campus.  What's the best way to do that ask?  Sunday morning? A mass rally with all...

Ten years ago I was on staff at The Meeting House in Toronto and we were embarking on launching our "second" campus.  We had the crazy idea of not launching one location but we were thinking about launching one new "regional site" a year for the following five years.  Crazy...