I recently received a comment asking how our family handles the details of being a multi-site church.
"On a related note, our church plant is headed toward going "multi-site" in a similar way you have done at Forefront. My questions for you are two:1. Do you go to both services (the Sunday service and the Tuesday one at the bar)? 2. If so, do you have kids, and what do you do with them on Tuesday night? I don't want my wife to feel like she has to attend services at both sites, but I also don't want the site that she does not attend to feel like a "second class" site because my wife doesn't attend it."
1. We currently have 3 campuses of Forefront. We have two Sunday morning services in separate high schools. I attend one of those services. We also have a service on Tuesday nights in a local bar. I do not attend this service. The main reason is that I have two kids. I guess I could hire a babysitter on Tuesday nights, but I would rather not.
2. I feel no pressure to attend the service from Vince or anyone else. I understand your concern about feeling "second class" and it's a legitimate concern. However, we want our church to not be personality driven and so I hope it wouldn't matter which campus I attend. Also, we have campus pastors at each of the locations. But, even the campus pastor of the bar service's wife only attends about once a month (because she has two young kids).
Every church planting family is different. Each situation we encounter needs to be prayerfully considered. Seek God at every turn!
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
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2 comments:
Thank you! That was what my wife adn I had decided to do, but it is good to hear confirmation from someone who is in the midst of planting.
We are on the front end of starting the first venue at our churhc. I have four young children under 7. I work three days a week. How do you fit it all in?? I am mostly concerned about the fact that I will have to be at the church (school) all day on Sunday every week because of the leadership roles I am filling. What do you do with them all day?? Do you have someone keep them??? Let them roam??? Put in a movie?? Send em to the grandparents?? I am in a quandry...I want them to be part of what we are doing and there are a couple of other small children...I wonder about the all day thing...will I just wear them out and burn them out to where they will hate church?? Any advice would be appreciated. We will have two services from the beginning. 10:30 and 12:00 noon. We will start set-up probably by 8 or earlier.
thanks for listening....Dawn C.
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