HOW GROWING MULTISITE CHURCHES ALLOCATE SERVICE TIME
The majority of churches have three elements in a service - worship, *hosting and a message. These three elements go by different names like singing, announcements and preaching. And sometimes there are additional unique elements like baptism, communion and budget votes in a service. But generally speaking the typical American church service consists of these three elements.
*Hosting includes meeting & greet, offering, announcements & dismissal
I wanted to know how thriving multisite churches allocated service time to these elements. So I asked them. The results were shocking. On average these churches had…
Service 69 minutes
Worship 22.3 minutes
Hosting 6 minutes
Message 40.7 minutes
Below is a breakdown of each church.
Service 65 - Worship 23 / Hosting 9 / Message 33
Service 60 - Worship 16 / Hosting 4 / Message 40
Services 64 - Worship 25 / Hosting 4 / Message 35
Service 88 - Worship 30 / Hosting 8 / Message 50
Services 75 - Worship 28 / Hosting 7 / Message 40
Service 69 - Worship 16 / Hosting 6 / Message 47
Services 65 - Worship 22 / Hosting 8 / Message 35
Service 75 - Worship 23 / Hosting 7 / Message 45
Services 65 - Worship 20 / Hosting 8 / Message 37
Services 70 - Worship 22 / Hosting 3 / Message 45