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What is a Missional Multi-Site?
A Faith Church, Missional, multi-site has the same values and theology of Faith Church. In the sense of a basic structure, it is essentially the same: a Sunday service, with Treasureland and worship. The goals are also similar to other Faith Church multi-sites: to have a Faith Church presence in a community other than Dyer and through that presence see lives transformed. But, there are differences. The differences of a Faith Church, Missional, multi-site are its target audience, its mini-churches and its form.

Target Audience
The target audiences of this Faith Church, Missional multi-site are the following:
• Men and women who are post-Christian and post-modern people. For sure, post-Christian people come to Faith Church. But because of our geographic location (the heartland), the majority of people in and around us are still part of Christendom. It is the intent of this Missional, multi-site to tell the story of salvation, and Reformation theology to a post-Christian, post-modern community.
• The “Other”—we seek to be prayerfully diverse economically, racially, and politically.

Missional Mini-Churches
Mini-church life will be foundational to this missional multi-site. Every mini-church will have the same values, characteristics and boundaries as a Faith Church mini-church. The one difference will be that each mini-church will form around a purpose. For example, the initial 8-20 people (the initial mini-church) that move into the neighborhood of the missional multi-site purpose will be starting a Sunday morning service with Treasureland. Subsequent mini-churches will begin around common purposes (examples: Celebrate Recovery, TRL, MOPS, etc).

Form
To reach men and women who are not only unchurched but post-church, there is a need to adapt the worship service to speak their language, talk about the things they care about, challenges them to counter-culture living, and that trains them up as theologians who can testify in the public square.

The form of the service will at times line up with the form of Faith Church. At other times, we will hear from Bob B. (whether live or dvd). But there will also be times that the missional multi-site will deviate from the traditional model in the effort to bring the gospel to post-Christian men and women in relevant ways.
Another point to be made here: art, literature and music are essential tools that will have to be used in order that we might get a fresh hearing in a community that no longer even knows the Christian story. Thus the use of such material will be intentional, thoughtful and weekly.