Taking an almost-full room and dividing into two less-than-half-full rooms can be a psychological blow. Here's how one church overcame it.
Has your church ever tried to add a second weekend worship service, only to have it flame out? This was the question that was asked on a small church pastors’ discussion board recently.
Several of the responses were, understandably, along these two lines:
“That’s a ‘problem’ I’d love to have.”
“Going to two services killed our momentum. Never again.”
So, yes, needing to add a service is a ‘problem’ many churches would love to face, but if you don’t do it well, it can hurt more than it helps. So let me share with you how our church did it without killing our momentum. Read More
As Charles Arn and Leith Anderson point out in How to Start a New Service, when you start a new service, you are not providing the existing congregation with the option of an alternative time that they may attend church. You are starting a new congregation. The second congregation may take on an entirely different character from the first congregation and that is OK.
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