Yesterday, Carol and I visited our friends Jeff and Sue Small at their home church, Central Christian, in the Phoenix, Arizona area. Jeff’s on the team at that church which now has three campuses and is experiencing the same remarkable growth in their multi-site ministry as we are at North Way! The inherent blessing in this to me is that all of this was something God spoke to us nearly five years, which is now leapfrogging all over the nation and effectively winning more people to Christ than any other structure in local church ministry.
There are a myriad of benefits to this “multi-site” approach which I won’t explain here, but it was a great blessing to see about 50 people baptized into the body of Christ because of this new church and then to hear that back in Wexford nearly 30 people came to the Lord over the weekend! The essence of the structure is secondary to the message of the cross. However, it’s both encouraging and exciting to know that the Lord has gone before us and that there are now more “multi-site” churches than “mega” churches in America!
What a faithful God we serve!
Blessings,
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