It may not be grand but it will be the final post on accesselevationchurch.com for this season. This blog has been fun for our staff to share our thoughts but has served its purpose.

We will keep the blog live and all old posts will be archived and searchable. But all future insights into the how and why we do things the way we do at Elevation will be done through guest blogs on our Pastor’s blog:

stevenfurtick.com

You can also check out one of the many Elevation staffers who update their blogs regularly. Here are the links:

Larry Hubatka

John Bishop

Wade Joye

Ryan Hollingsworth

Chris Brown

Mack Brock

Signing off.

Chunks Corbett, Executive Pastor

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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:

Are we at capacity at our current location?

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

Chunks Corbett, Executive Pastor

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