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What are strategic change and transition issues to address?

Examples of this choice:

  • Congregations who use multiple sites but vary the activities at each.

  • Mother congregations who sponsor children congregations, but maintain an organic, collegial, or network/partnership relationship. This is also known as satellite congregations.

  • Congregations with a global constituency made possible by the Internet.

  • Congregations who worship on different states, countries, or continents through sister congregation relationships.

  • The classic example of this is the congregation that worships in a location in the city and a location in the suburbs.

Worshiping at multiple sites allows for experimentation with radically different worship, discipleship, and fellowship styles. It allows for a schedule of activities that competes with or compliments the schedule at the primary campus. It empowers a congregation to reach diverse groups of people that they could not reach because of the bounded culture present at their primary location.

Worship at multiple locations also allows for a primary congregation to partner with congregations that are generally smaller, very focused in who they are seeking to reach, and in need of a relationship with a larger congregation for the provision of various support services to carry their ministry.

This has been an effective model in urban areas for a multi-cultural partnership of congregations.

Harmony can be maintained as the ministerial staff from the primary location also provides leadership at the satellite locations.

Often when the satellite locations are created because the primary location is out of space, or the satellite location is more than 20 to 25 minutes away, the attempt is made for the senior pastor to preach at least two, if not three, locations.

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