Summary: Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: [iTunes] [RSS] [Stitcher] [TuneIn] // [VIDEO iTunes] [VIDEO RSS] Warren Bird is the head of research at Leadership Network. This week he published the Leadership Network/Generis Multisite Church Scorecard ... the largest study of the multisite movement ever done. This report is full of fascinating insights into this explosive part of the body of Christ. It's a free download ... you should pick it up! Today I'm honored to have Warren on the show giving you some insights into and beyond the numbers. Warren Bird // [Website] [twitter] [email] Interview Highlights // 00:30 // Warren is the Director of Research and Intellectual Capital at the Leadership Network 01:04 // The Leadership Network/Generis Multisite Church Scorecard is the largest ever survey of multisite churches 01:45 // Rich and others contributed to generating the questions asked in the report 02:30 // Warren's biggest surprise was that 87% of multisite churches saw an increase in lay involvement when they launched. 03:10 // Rich has experienced that the launching of a campus is the best way to mobilize people into service 03:30 // 85% of multisite churches are growing at a rate of 14% per year 04:40 // Multisite is no longer a movement of only mega churches 06:23 // The average church has been multisite for 4 years 08:09 // Size of core group / launch team depends on church size and scale 09:25 // Vast majority of Campus Pastors are hired internally 12:55 // Rich's question was answered: 57% of multisite plan to launch again in the next 12 months. 13:25 // Email your potential survey questions to research@leadnet.org Interview Transcript // Rich - Alright, good morning! Happy Thursday everybody. Hope you are having a great week. You have reached the unSeminary Podcast. My name's Rich Birch, the host around here. Today we have a real treat. We've got Warren Bird on the line. Warren is the Director of Research and Intellectual Property. I believe that's your title, isn't it Warren? Warren - Ya, Intellectual Capital, whatever sounds good, I'll take. Rich - Nice. At Leadership Network. And this week you might have heard around the web, there was a report that's super important. I think every church leader should take a look at this. The Leadership Network Generis Multisite Score Card. And so Warren why don't we start by you telling us, what is the Score Card? Warren - Well, we did the largest ever survey of multisite churches. The vast majority were in the United States, then Canada after that, then Europe after that and so forth. And we pulled it all together, then we have the naming sponsorship of Generis, which is why their name gets in the title. And also they did a section later in the report on funding because the money question, probably better the stewardship question, the generosity question is a big part of how do we make multisite work. So they landed in on that part and it's a great report. It's got over 25, at least I thought there were 25 big discoveries of 'Wow!' We came up with most of the questions by asking people, actually Rich you were among the different ones. We said 'Hey, what are people wanting to know out there?' Of course we asked a bunch of multisite leaders themselves and then we built that into the survey. Rich - Absolutely. Now, like you said, there's 25 of these kind of surprises, what are one or two of them that, to you as the author, were particularly surprising? That kind of jump to the top for you. Because this isn't the first time that you have done a report like this. This is the second or third time that you've done a report on multisite. What were the things that kind of jumped out this time for you? Warren - Well, actually one of the few questions we asked a second time, because it was my biggest surprise that we did in the last round in 2010, was about lay involvement. It was a simple question,
