A consistent campus model Today, Milestone Church continues to grow in attendance and influence. It now has multiple campuses, with Pelletier often calling upon the Goff team to help ensure a firm foundation for each.“ We see Goff as a partner; they help us make informed decisions, particularly on the technical aspects of a property or a piece of land,” he explains.“ It’ s very important that due diligence is completed before we purchase property or land, and their input is of high value to us as subject matter experts. As we’ ve seen, they play a key role in helping us understand potential site penalties, which can be very, very costly.” Another common element at each campus is a“ signature vibe.” It’ s a formula that relies partly on ratios. In each location, the people-toparking ratio is consistent. So are the ratios associated with worship center headcount and square feet required for each child. Moreover, every campus prominently uses the same five building components: glass, wood, concrete, stone and steel. Effectively, Pelletier explains, these make up Milestone’ s design calling card— which is important beyond just aesthetics.“ No matter which campus you go to, you’ ll feel at home,” he says.“ It creates a similar look and feel irrespective of where you engage with Milestone Church.” Combined, it all helps Milestone leaders deliver the level of ministry they want to deliver.“ While we love our buildings and are happy to share what we’ ve learned with other churches, our biggest motivation is the guest experience,” Pelletier explains.“ From the time a guest enters the parking lot, walks into the building, gets their kids checked in, and enters the worship center, all of it matters to us. We want to remove any barriers and help guests feel welcomed.” Future phases of the Keller campus will include a stand-alone chapel and a ministry center. Although the chapel will be used for additional seating when needed, it will primarily host weddings and funerals.“ Our heart for the chapel is simply to further serve families,” Pelletier says.“ Here, they can create what we call‘ generational memories’ and celebrate big life moments.” Meanwhile, the ministry center will house the church’ s accredited university, Milestone College.“ Again, we believe in the next generation; we’ re dedicated to helping students and young adults grow into all they’ re created to be,” Pelletier says.“ We need additional space to equip and to empower these young leaders to step into their calling.”
Always ready for what’ s next No doubt Milestone’ s proven, designed-for-maximum-ministry approach will be evident in its future projects: namely, in the form of additional campuses. Recently, this ethos helped shape the renovation of a warehouse in Haslet, Texas— 25 minutes from the main campus in Keller— into an 800-seat satellite campus. The Haslet campus is a great example of how Milestone leaders like to partner with God and meet Him where He’ s already working.
Each fall and spring, the church’ s youth team hosts midweek services as part of its Super Series, a three-week outreach to students.“ The emphasis is for them to bring their friends,” Pelletier explains.“ So, it’ s really an outreach into the schools, and it’ s pretty impactful.” True to form, the inordinate number of students attending from the Haslet area was hard to miss— a few hundred per week. Milestone even began busing them in on Wednesday nights.“ We took note of it and ultimately, to best serve families in the Haslet area, it made sense for us to explore putting a campus there,” Pelletier says.“ Simply stated, it’ s exactly how our multisite approach is devised: primarily as a way to best serve and steward our people where they already live and do life.” Plans for even more campuses are in the works, with the next one likely to occupy land acquired by the church in nearby Justin, Texas. Beyond this, Pelletier says he and the rest of the Milestone Church leadership team plan to simply stay open-minded.“ We remain opportunistic,” he says.“ We continue to prepare for every next opportunity, not only financially but also in developing the leaders we’ ll need to actually pull it off. We sit on ready.”
QUICK FACTS ABOUT MILESTONE CHURCH
Year established: 2002 Locations: 4 physical + 1 online Staff— full- and part-time: 153 Average attendance: 13,000
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