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Multi-campus church operations in LA County.
LA County multi-campus churches face a specific set of operational realities — traffic between campuses, broadcast versus in-person dynamics, parking, and the math of per-campus pricing. This playbook covers how the operations actually run on a Sunday and what changes when the software layer is collapsed.
What Sunday morning actually looks like.
A typical 3-campus LA-area church serving 1,500–2,500 weekend attendees runs roughly this schedule:
- 7:00 AM — Campus pastors at each location confirm setup. Volunteers arrive. Tech booth checks the broadcast feed if the sermon is being delivered live from the main campus.
- 8:30 AM service — Smaller, often older congregation. Giving runs higher per-attendee. Check-in volume is manageable.
- 10:00 AM service — The biggest service. Children's check-in becomes the bottleneck. Parking fills first at the main campus, then the satellite campuses.
- 11:30 AM service — Often the youngest demographic. Most app-based giving. Most in-app sermon listening on Monday.
- 12:30 PM — Campus pastors pull weekly numbers — attendance, giving by service, new visitor count. The pulled-from-spreadsheets summary lands on the senior pastor's desk by Monday afternoon. Late.
The software stack underneath this typically includes a church management system (Planning Center, Realm, ChurchTrac), a giving platform (Pushpay, Tithe.ly, or Subsplash giving), a streaming platform, the church website, and an SMS/push notification tool. Five to seven separate systems for a single Sunday.
The per-campus math.
Most rented platforms charge per campus. The per-campus rate is rarely linear. Subsplash mid-tier runs $349/mo per campus; the higher tiers add features, the lower tiers strip them. Pushpay's ChurchStaq pricing typically lands at $400–$1,200/mo per campus depending on giving volume.
A 3-campus church on Subsplash mid-tier pays $1,047/mo. Add giving processor fees (1.5–2.9% of digital giving), the streaming platform, the SMS tool, and the website hosting, and the all-in monthly cost is usually $1,800–$3,200.
Rehost Faith is $250/mo per campus, linear, no exceptions. Three campuses run $750/mo. Five campuses run $1,250/mo. Ten campuses run $2,500/mo. The architecture supports the same shell across all campuses with per-campus branding, schedules, giving funds, and content libraries.
Three-year all-in comparison, 3-campus LA-area church:
| Model | Year 1 | Year 3 total |
|---|---|---|
| Subsplash mid + Pushpay giving + streaming | $26,400 | $79,200 |
| Custom dev ($95K upfront + $1,200/mo) | $109,400 | $138,200 |
| Rehost Faith ($750/mo flat, all-in) | $9,000 | $27,000 |
What changes operationally on Sunday.
- One app, one experience across campuses. Members pick their campus on first launch. Each campus gets its own service times, giving funds, sermon library, and group directory — but the app shell, the branding, and the data substrate are shared.
- Cross-campus visibility for senior leadership. The senior pastor sees attendance, giving, and engagement rolled up across campuses, broken down per campus, in a single Monday-morning summary written in English.
- Sunday on-call from us. If anything breaks during a service, our on-call engineer is paged. Worship-day SLAs are the default, not an upgrade.
- Weekly content publishing without a CMS. Sermon uploads, bulletin updates, event additions — all happen by message to the Rehost team. Your communications director keeps writing; nobody learns a CMS.
- Giving processor stays yours. Stripe, Tithe.ly's API, Pushpay's API — the processor in your name with your bank. We integrate. We don't take a cut.
For deeper context on the multi-campus math, see the dedicated multi-campus math page. For the migration playbook from Subsplash, Tithe.ly, or Pushpay, see how the switch works.