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Benefits of a Reproducing Church

Posted by: Todd
Posted on: Wed, August 24, 2005
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Increased Outreach. At Community Christian, we want to reach people because we believe that each person matters to God. And as we have coached hundreds of churches, we have seen that when churches begin multiple locations, they dramatically increase their outreach. When Leadership Network surveyed one thousand multi-site churches, the number one reason churches added new sites was "for evangelistic purposes".

Involved Followers. When you reproduce sites, you involve more people in ministry. Last year, one of our sites sent 150 of its best people to start a new site. Before they left, 54 percent of the people at the sending site were both in a small group and involved in serving. So when those 150 key people left, we worried about the effect it would have on the sponsoring site. Now, one year later, we have seen the total outreach increase from 800 people weekly to over 1,100 people weekly?with 74 percent of the people at both locations connected in a small group and involved in serving others.

Improved Quality. Each time we launch a site, we rethink how we do children's ministry, creative arts, small groups, etc., which improves their quality. Plus, since certain overhead and personnel expenses are shared, costs drop.

You can read the whole article here...

Any thoughts?

Still vacationing,

Todd

Dave Ferguson is the lead pastor at Community Christian Church in Naperville, IL. Dave has a new article just posted at BuildingChurchLeaders.com, in which he identifies some of the benefits of a multi-site, reproducing church format. Dave writes… When a church becomes a reproducing church, it discovers several benefits…

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mick on Wed, August 24, 2005

I have not recieved your em newsletter for two weeks for some reason. Can you get me back on please?

Thx
Gerry on Thu, August 25, 2005

Good info, but this topic has really been worked over on this board!
Todd Rhoades on Thu, August 25, 2005

Only one reason for that Gerry… it’s one of my interests and it’s my blog. http://www.mondaymorninginsight.com/images/smileys/smile.gif

Todd
Todd Rhoades on Thu, August 25, 2005

No newsletters for the past couple of weeks only because I’m on vacation… newsletters will resume not next week but the week after (around the holiday weekend.)
bobby on Wed, August 31, 2005

I read the full article and it was pretty good. From reading just what was here on your blog, I couldn’t tell if they actually reproduced churches or just sites, but I saw in the article that they have planted several churches.

This seems to make the most sense to me. Church multiplication has many advantages and I believe is in fact what we are called to do. But I am still not completely sold on multiple sites. Maybe I don’t yet fully understand the concept. I can see benefits on some levels, but it just seems that many churches who are starting multiple sites are stopping at that and not reproducing churches. If you have the leaders, why not put the effort into giving life to a whole new body?
Rev Jay on Mon, September 05, 2005

The SBC has been doing this for decades? What’s so new about it?

Rev Jay