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Multisite Is Multiplying: Survey Identifies Leading Practices and Confirms New Developments in the Movement's Expansion
By Warren Bird and Kristin Walters
Cost: Free Download
There are an estimated 3,000 multisite churches in the United States and recently Leadership Network invited many of them to be part of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive survey of multisite churches. The idea was to gain further insight into the phenomenon and to discover how churches are making it work. A number of findings surfaced, highlights include:
Multisites now outnumber megachurches
Multisite is mainstreaming and crossing cultures as well
Multisite is birthing other sites and churches
Multsites reach more people and mobilize more volunteers
Multisites have a 90% success rate
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Nine Game-Changers for Global Missions: Trends that Shape the Future
By Eric Swanson
Cost: Free Download
After interviews with 50 leading missional leaders engaged in global outreach the following nine trends emerged that could shape the future of missions: cities, mutuality, partnering, investing in leaders, combining good news and good deeds, greater financial accountability, business as mission, focus, and technology.
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Breaking the 50% Barrier: How to Increase Small Group Participation in Your Church
By Pat Springle
Cost: Free Download
Leadership Network invited several innovative small groups pastors to explain how they have broken the mythical—and for some churches, seemingly impenetrable— 50% participation barrier. Case studies of these leaders and their ministries address many important issues from different angles, primarily the church’s culture, selection and training of new group leaders, coaching, and curriculum.
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Lean Staffing: Churches That Handle Staff Costs in Under 35% of Budget
By Warren Bird
Cost: free download
Slide Presentation
Highlights from of a Leadership Network study of churches we describe as “lean staff” – where 35% or less of the total budget goes to staff costs.
Contents:
- Key Findings
- What Churches Said about Keeping Staff Costs Down
- The Most Important Values
- The Most Important Numbers
- What You Can Do
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European Snapshots: Models of Multisite Church in Europe
By Joanne Appleton
Cost: Free Download
Across Europe, there is growing interest in multi-site church. This paper describes three very different churches in Europe who are developing multi-site, and explores the logic behind their going multi-site, the life of their sites and their leadership development.
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