Multi-site Church Road Trip

Releasing for Reproduction Followup

2009-12-17T11:48:11-06:00

I recently posted a video interview with Dave Ferguson regarding what they have done to '”get unstuck” in releasing campuses to add campuses. I am reposting the video here.

If you are interested in receiving a copy of the “one page document” he references in the video, shoot me an email at greg.ligon@leadnet.org.

Greg Ligon

Leadership Network

Vice President and Publisher

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Multi-Site Church Bloggers Tour

2009-12-14T09:38:17-06:00

A little over a year ago, Warren Bird, Geoff Surratt and I took a “road trip” as we connected with 15 plus of the leading innovative churches in the multi-site movement. At each stop we learned about one of the latest innovations in the way multi-site that is being executed in the United States and literally around the world. We reported on our exploration in our book A Multi-site Church Road Trip.

On December 15, we will be taking a different kind of tour – a tour of 15 or more blogs where we will answer the questions of the following bloggers:

Story in the Making Ben Arment http://www.benarment.com

Monday Morning Insight Todd Rhoades http://mondaymorninginsight.com/

Mosaic Eric Bryant http://ericbryant.org/

Leading from the Second Chair Mike Bonem http://www.secondchair.blogspot.com/

Observations Bill Easum www.billeasum.com

Guiding Christian Leaders Tom Bandy http://tgbandy.com/

BullardJournal George Bullard http://www.bullardjournal.org/

Consulting, Coaching and Chatter Bill Tenny-Brittian http://www.billtennybrittian.com/

Women Who Lead Sherry Surratt http://www.sherrysurratt.com

LifeChurch.tv (NW OKC Campus) Scott Williams http://bigisthenewsmall.com/

Granger Community Church (Elkhart Campus) Jeff Bell http://livewellleadwell.com

Eagle Brook Church (White Bear Lake Canpus) Don Graffam http://wblbehindthescenes.wordpress.com/

South Bend campus of Grace Community Church Tim Boucher http://bouchersblog.blogspot.com/

Bay Area Fellowship Bil Cornelius http://www.bilcornelius.com/blog

Captain’s Blog Chad Estes http://chadestes.com

Please join us on these blogs and here on the Multi-Site Church Road Trip Blog and feel free to ask a question of your own. Rumor has it that there will be a free copy of the book given to anyone who can stump Geoff Surratt!

@GregLigon – greg.ligon@leadnet.org

@GeoffSurratt – GeoffSurratt@seacoast.org

@WarrenBird - warren.bird@leadnet.org

Releasing for Reproduction

2009-12-03T16:12:37-06:00

I recently spent a little time with Dave Ferguson from Community Christian Church in Naperville. If you know Dave and you know Community Christian, you know that they are all about reproduction – leaders, artists, campuses, church plants and networks. At a recent planning session, they realized that with reference to reproducing campuses, they were stuck. Check out this video to hear how they got unstuck and the amazing results.

Multi-site Innovation Lab 2 spots left!

2009-11-24T10:50:37-06:00

Leadership Network offers a new experience – the Innovation Lab

Is your church looking for the chance to explore new ideas and discover a new path? Do you sometimes feel caught between ideas and action? You’re not alone. That’s why Leadership Network has developed The Innovation Lab, a unique environment designed to help you overcome the common obstacles to innovative thinking and problem solving in developing a ministry area.

JumpStart Innovation Labs are designed to give you a quick start in a ministry area, based on the proven results of others. We are launching the two new multi-site jumpstart labs described below in 2010. We have one spot available for each lab. If you are interested or know of someone that might be, give me a shout today at greg.ligon@leadnet.org.

Multi-Site Multipliers – Churches have already launched one or more campuses/venues and have a vision to accelerate the launch on multiple campuses.

First meeting is January 19-20, 2010 in Dallas and two online meetings from your office on July 13, 2010 and January 18, 2011.

Multi-Site Runway – Churches with a plan in place for a new campus and a launch date sometime between now and early 2010.

First meeting is March 23-24, 2010 in Dallas and two online meetings from your office on October 21, 2010 and April 21, 2011.

For more information on the Innovation Lab process and an application, go to http://innovationlab.leadnet.org.

At the same website, you can find information about six other innovation lab topics we will be tackling in 2010.

Greg Ligon

Vice President and Publisher

Leadership Network

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Accounting Made Simple?

2009-11-24T09:10:23-06:00

At a recent Leadership Network multi-site leadership community, Tim Goetz from The Well Community Church announced the completion of a new accounting software developed by he and a team of folks from the Sacramento area. Here is what caught my eye - “We wrote it around the fact that most nonprofits and most churches have their accounting done by a volunteer or someone without an accounting degree. We really simplified accounting (one of the beta testers 7 year old was able to use it), and time saving features so that volunteers can spend less time on the books and feel confident that they are doing the books right.” Take a minute to check it out at www.aplossoftware.com