Just had a conversation with Jim Tomberlin, formerly of Willowcreek Community Church. Jim oversaw Willow's multi-site efforts and regional churches. Jim is the one who invited NCC to be part of the panel at the Multi-Site Conference hosted by Willowcreek last summer.
Anywho.
We had a great conversation about some possible synergies with some other churches across the country. I think we'll host another theater church forum, but we'd also like to do a church planting forum and multi-site forum.
We'll keep them smaller and make them highly interactive. I think our coffeehouse is the perfect environment for it. They will probably be one day events. And we'll try to tag-team with some multi-site and church planting gurus.
We're still recuperating from Buzz, but I'm already excited about hosting some additional forums.
Anywho.
We had a great conversation about some possible synergies with some other churches across the country. I think we'll host another theater church forum, but we'd also like to do a church planting forum and multi-site forum.
We'll keep them smaller and make them highly interactive. I think our coffeehouse is the perfect environment for it. They will probably be one day events. And we'll try to tag-team with some multi-site and church planting gurus.
We're still recuperating from Buzz, but I'm already excited about hosting some additional forums.
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Have you heard about Northland, A Church Distributed, in Longwood, Florida? I think they were one of the pioneers of the multi-site approach. They've been doing it for years. They do it both with multiple locations near their facilities (a mile or 50 miles away, give or take), as well as with locations across the country (New Hampshire, Arizona) and around the world (Namibia).
They have also been helping Mars Hill Church in Seattle do the multi-site thing in their area.
Tim
10,568 days
Tim,
Very familiar.
They are doing some amazing stuff. Their tech guru was at our last multi-site gathering with Leadership Network talking about their live video feed.
A-mazing!
Mark
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