Guest Blog: Chunks Corbett, Executive Pastor

This post will be short and sweet.

Elevation Church is a church with several locations. In fact we will be adding a 3rd in the fall and I’m hopeful to add a 4th by Easter 09.

But having multiple locations (especially if they are portable) is not glamorous. Here are a few questions that I would think through before adding campuses:

1.    Are we at capacity at our current location?
2.    Would adding another location open seats up at our current location? (Would it cannibalize our current site?)
3.    Is God leading our church toward a strategy of having multiple locations?
4.    Will we use video or live preaching?
5.    Not all Pastors are right for video, is ours?
6.    What is the density of our current campus related to where we want to add another campus?
7.    Can we add another service where we are and get the same effect?
8.    Do we have the leadership to pull off another campus?
9.    Will another site be a step of faith or foolishness?
10.    What would you define as success for another campus? Define this by using metrics for attendance, salvations, giving, etc.
11.    Will another site make us more effective at reaching people for Christ?

Those are just a few. Multiple locations is very effective but also trendy. Asking the right questions beforehand may keep you from making a mistake or confirm the direction God is leading his church.