Assessment Pack: Launching New Services and Sites

Is your church planning a new service? Is your congregation looking to move? Are you unsure how to prepare your church for a big transition? Download these assessments that help you gauge your congregational climate for change and prepare for a second service or church move. Use them with your ministry team to appropriately plan for the future. Each assessment conveniently fits on one page, so they're easy to print, copy, and hand out. Table of Contents: Church Climate Conditions Your church?s atmosphere is a key ingredient for new expansion success. Donald Gerig Questioning Your Next Step Leaders are bound to question new ideas. Lyle Schaller Do You Know How To Expand? Planning and strategy need to guide your church?s next step. Don Cousins When To Add a Service Predict the outcome of expanding based on your church's life cycle. Charles Arn An Opportunity for Improvement Evaluating current services can highlight ways to strengthen a new service. Charles Arn How To Launch a Second (or Third, Fourth, or Fifth) Service Get ready to reach the lost by expanding your options for worship. Charles Arn Second Service Tradeoffs Anticipate where your church is willing to be flexible when adding services. Gilford Bisjak, Jr. The Many Meanings of Multi-Site What do you imagine when you talk about launching a new service? Bob Smietana