When Should A Church Add A 3rd Service

Calculation A Second Church Service Without Killing Your Momentum

Taking an nearly-full room and dividing into two less-than-half-full rooms can exist a psychological accident. Hither'southward how one church overcame it.

Has your church always tried to add a second weekend worship service, but to have it flame out? This was the question that was asked on a pocket-size church pastors' discussion board recently.

Several of the responses were, understandably, forth these ii lines:

• "That's a 'problem' I'd dearest to have."
• "Going to two services killed our momentum. Never again."

And so, yes, needing to add a service is a 'problem' many churches would love to confront, simply if you lot don't practise information technology well, it can hurt more than information technology helps. So let me share with y'all how our church building did it without killing our momentum.

How To Know If It'southward Time For Ii

First of all, adding a 2d Lord's day morning time service isn't for anybody.

Adding a 2nd Sunday morn service isn't for everyone.

Every church needs to judge the reasons why they should exercise it against the downsides of doing it.

Some potential upsides include:

• More worship options might bring new people in
• It might increase your volunteer base, since people can help in ane service (like in the nursery) and attend the other
• Adding a 2d service tin create excitement and interest
• The opportunity to do two different styles of services (like contemporary and traditional)

Some potential downsides include:

• Everything has to be done twice, which tin can be tiring
• Landing on the correct start times can be hard (Is the first service too early? Is the 2d service too tardily?)
• Information technology puts a time limit on the first service (a positive for some) which is a negative if your church is more than open-ended in its worship style
• Creating sectionalisation, especially if you do two different styles of services
• Killing momentum going from one full service to two half-full services

That last one appears to take been the business of most of the commenters on the small church building pastors group.

Avoiding The Problem Of Two Half-Full Rooms

Despite the potential downsides, when our church added a 2nd service over 15 years ago it was one of our best scheduling decisions, ever. Specially since information technology allows u.s.a. to utilize our tiny facility to an even greater degree.

But nosotros did it carefully. I had heard from other churches that taking an almost-total room and dividing into two less-than-half-full rooms was a psychological blow, and so I told our congregation almost this potential problem. So I asked them to sign up, on a rotating basis, to attend both services at least once a calendar month for the offset half dozen months.

Several said they'd exist happy to attend both services for the unabridged half dozen months to help us get over the hump, and to figure out for themselves which service worked improve for their schedule.

Source: https://www.christianitytoday.com/karl-vaters/2017/august/adding-second-church-service-without-killing-your-momentum.html

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