At Mosaic, we started our first campus off-site from our main building in East Los Angeles in 1998 when we began meeting in a nightclub downtown. Now in 7 different locations across California, we have enjoyed the beauty of partnership at the highest level, and we have also experienced the challenges with this strategy. The authors of A Multi-Site Church Road Trip asked me to pose a couple of questions to them during their blog tour. Here is the second one.
My Question:
What are some of the skills you feel the most effective campus pastors display?
Their Reply:
The top five campus pastor qualities tend to be:
1. A leader who completely buys into the church’s vision and is loyal to its senior leadership.
2. A team player with strong relational skills.
3. A team builder who can reproduce vision in others.
4. A pastor, someone with a desire and heart to shepherd groups and individuals.
5. A flexible entrepreneur.
Mac Lake from Seacoast Church has launched a very helpful online community called Leading Multi-site. On that site you can find a growing set of conversations and training videos for campus pastors and other multi-site leaders.
Also, for further dialog, see more Q&A at the authors’ blog www.multisiteroadtrip.com or contact them via Twitter: @geoffsurratt, @gregligon or @warrenbird. Click to order Multi-Site Church Roadtrip and to order Multi-Site Church Revolution.