Playbooks / Faith
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.