Question: What would be the ideal financial model for opening multi-site campuses in small towns areas?

Reply: We see two different streams:  1. For some multi-site campuses, there is no expectation they will ever break even financially. The campus viewed as is an outreach to be supported by other campuses. This might include a weekly service at a drug rehab facility, the cancer ward of a hospital, a university campus, an extremely poor section of town -- or in this case, a small underchurched town.  2. Other multi-site churches want the small-town campus to support itself, and they scale it accordingly. They recruit a bi-vocational campus pastor. They rent their location from a church, school, community playhouse or other comparatively inexpensive facility. The sending campuses might give a one-time gift to help the church get started, such as for advertising, sound equipment, or giving the rental location a facelift.  For further dialog, see more Q&A at the authors' blog www.multisiteroadtrip.com or contact them via Twitter: @geoffsurratt, @gregligon or @warrenbird. To order Multi-Site Church Roadtrip, click here http://bit.ly/7pmFZQ, and to order Multi-Site Church Revolution, click here http://bit.ly/5q5AaD.