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POLL: Would you go to a multisite church?

By: Tracy Simmons

Date:

March 12, 2014

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A study released this week showed that 10 percent of American Protestants who attend a “multisite” church, and enjoy watching their pastor on a movie screen.

The “Leadership Network/Generis Multisite Church Scorecard reports that there were 8,000 multisite churches in the U.S. in 2012 — up from 5,000 in 2010.

Multisite churches typically operate with a main campus headed by the senior minister and one or more satellite locations. In some settings, attendees at the satellite location watch the same sermon that’s beamed in from the central location but have their own dedicated on-site pastor, music or small group meetings, which would happen in Spokane if and when Mars Hill-Spokane comes to town.

We want to know, would you go to a multisite church?

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Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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