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Multi-Site News: Conference in San Diego / McLean Bible Church Announces NINE New Campuses!

Posted by: Todd
Posted on: Sun, February 04, 2007
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With 13,000 worshipers, a $93 million campus and multimillion-dollar budget, can McLean Bible Church—the Christian colossus in Tysons Corner—possibly get any bigger?

Yes, it can.

McLean Bible Church is one of the largest in the country and has launched a campaign to create a “spiritual beltway” with satellite churches in the D.C. area. Above, Angelica Mendoza and John Van Auken attend a Rosslyn service. (By Marvin Joseph—The Washington Post)

The evangelical megachurch, one of the country’s largest and fastest growing, is launching an ambitious expansion. It plans to build a “spiritual beltway” around the D.C. region by opening nine satellite locations to bring tens of thousands more into its fold. Through televised broadcasts, congregants at each location would see and hear portions of the same service at the same time.

The church is hunting for space in the District and in Prince George’s, Montgomery, Loudoun and Prince William counties—as well as farther north in Maryland and south in Virginia.

Two weeks ago, the first satellite church was launched, with a regular Monday night service aimed at young adults, in leased space at the Rosslyn Spectrum after holding three preview services there in the fall.

McLean is on the vanguard of churches in the Washington area that employ this new growth strategy. Unlike the traditional church-growth strategy, where houses of worship spun off—or “planted”—independent entities, an increasing number of large churches in the Washington area are growing by opening multiple locations under the same name and considering themselves one church.

If successful, senior pastor Lon Solomon told worshipers in a sermon last month, “we can keep expanding our impact for the Lord Jesus in this town until we have touched the entire town for Christ.”

Have a great week!

Todd

I'm here in San Diego for the Coast to Coast Multi-Site Church Conference today and tomorrow (along with a bunch of meetings and appointments with Leadership Network). I'm really excited about what's happening with the multi-site movement. Did you know that there are over 1,500 churches that are now using the multi-site model? And today and tomorrow, over 700 people from a couple hundred more churches are here to learn more about what's happening in this area of the church. All this as McLean Bible Church, a huge church already, announces plans to open up nine different campuses in the D. C. area. Here's part of a report published over the weekend in the Washington Post...

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Linda on Mon, February 05, 2007

I love this comment:

If successful, senior pastor Lon Solomon told worshipers in a sermon last month, “we can keep expanding our impact for the Lord Jesus in this town until we have touched the entire town for Christ.”
Peter Hamm on Mon, February 05, 2007

I just read this article in the Post, too. Although MBC has some theology that I’m at odds with, especially with regard to “Sign gifts” and such, I have visited them on several occasions, they are doing a GREAT work there in VA. This is a good move for them, because their continued expansion over the past few years has been looked upon unfavorably by the neighborhoods nearby, and this will mean expansion without making the facility/traffic/etc more of a “problem” for those folks.

Go Lon!
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Melissa on Wed, February 04, 2009

Thumbs up, McLean Bible Church! My family and I go there every Sunday. Sometimes it feels like going to a shopping mall. 10,000+ people are suckered into this big church. But we really like it. It is a place where you can find real biblical truth. Thanks for your post! Very informative.
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