A local pastor is leaving the 30th largest church in America for the sixth largest church in America — to help make the bigger church bigger.
Geoff Surratt, pastor of ministries at Mount Pleasant-based Seacoast Church, will join Rick Warren and Saddleback Church in Southern California as director of church planting, according to a news release.
Surratt will spearhead one of the key initiatives in Saddleback’s “Decade of Destiny Campaign,” which includes the launch of a new church planting center later this year. Part of Surratt’s responsibility will be to develop Warren’s vision for planting churches through that center and other programs, according to the release.
[i]Seacoast, a nondenominational church, steadily moved up the list published by Outreach Magazine of the 100 largest and fastest-growing churches in America. With 13 distinct campuses…[/i]
How many ‘campuses’ does one have to have before you become a ‘denomination’?
#1: in Tec, 13 “campuses” would be a diocese.