Along with list of 100 largest and fastest growing churches this year, Outreach Magazine describes some of the ways that these churches are growing. The latest and almost norm now? Multi-site. Churches reproduce themselves in locations throughout their area with either satellite campuses that broadcast the message from the main campus or campuses that have their own pastor and worship team, but exist as an extension of the main church. Here’s what Outreach had to say…
“By now, multi-site worship can’t even be considered a trend. Over the last 5 to 10 years, it has emerged from obscurity as one of the most popular tools a church can use to expand its outreach. Check out the telling statistics below:
In 1990, only 10 multi-site Protestant churches existed in the United States. Today, 16% of all Protestant churches in the United States are seriously considering adding a site within the next two years.
In 2000, only 5% of all U.S. megachurches had multiple locations. Today, 25% of all megachurches have more than one site,l and experts are predicting that by 2010, 50% of all megachurches will be multi-site (multisiterevolution.com).
Currently, seven of the top 10 fastest-growing U.S. churches on the Outreach 100 are multi-site churches. Seven of the top 10 U.S. churches on the Outreach 100 largest list are multi-site churches.”
