The NewThing Network

An Attender's Look at The Hitchhiker's Guide to Multi-Site

Written by Jim Egli

16 members of the Vineyard Church (Urbana, IL) set out at 5:30am on Saturday, June 7,to take in Community Christian Church’s (COMMUNITY) “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Multi-Site.” An experience designed to help churches discover what a multi-site church looks like on a typical weekend.  As we entered their leadership meeting (called Leadership Community), I was noticing different things: 

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What Will It Take to Catalyze a Movement

Written by Dave Ferguson

Twice a year our NewThing Lead Pastors get together to hang out and strategize about catalyzing a movement of reproducing churches. In May they all came to Chicago and we had a lot of fun; but during the fun we talked about just this question:  what will it take to catalyze a movement?

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Restore Community Church Launch

On March 2, 2008, the newest NewThing church, Restore Community Church, was launched in Kansas City, Missouri. The dream for Restore began over a year ago when Troy McMahon felt God telling him that it was his turn to be missional and plant a church.

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What Every Follower Wants in a Leader

Written by Brian Zehr, Church Planting and Multi-Site Coach

Ecclesiastes 10:10 tells us: “If the axe is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed; but skill brings success.”

We are consistently looking to equip and empower leaders with the skill sets needed not only to lead, but to reproduce leaders. One such skill set comes from learning what every follower wants in a leader. If leaders can learn to start with the needs and wants of those on his or her team, there is exponential development in results as well as in the development of new teams. So what does every follower want in a leader?

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