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It seems that more and more churches are embracing the multi-site church model for church growth these days. For those who are new to this, multi-site churches are those who share a common vision, budget, leadership, and board (The Multi-Site Church Revolution, Surratt, Ligon, and Bird, 2006). These can be “video venues” where a pastor preaches one or more “live” sermons on a weekend which is video recorded for other congregations at either the same location or satellite locations around town (or around the state, country, etc.). Multi-site churches can also be daughter congregations with their own teaching pastor who ultimately report up the chain to the senior pastor in the “main church.”
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I mentioned in a previous article that Mesilla Park Community Church (www.getrealchurch.org) is branching out by planting new churches in Las Cruces — and hopefully elsewhere soon. The problem we’re having is that MPCC is working on just the right way to label what we’re doing. How do you go about describing something new in your organization when none of the labels that are “out there” seem to fully or accurately convey what you’re really trying to do?
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