We’re a multi-site church–one church with multiple locations. We meet in the the movie theaters @ Union Station and the movie theaters @ Ballston Common Mall. We’ll add a third location in January @ our coffeehouse on Capitol Hill. We’re targeting fall of 2006 for another theater location in NW Washington, DC. And our vision is to meet in movie theaters @ metro stops throughout the DC area.

But I had a thought yesterday. Everyone who owns an iPod and subscribes to our podcast is a multi-site location.

Then I was reading Shawn Wood’s blog last night. Shawn is the creative pastor at Seacoast Church in South Carolina. He cites a WSJ article that quotes new Disney CEO, Robert Iger. Iger was talking about the way Disney is reinventing itself by rethinking how they distribute their message. Iger said, “If we sit back and rely on old technology, the consumer is going to pass us by.“

The church needs to take that to heart. I have a simple rule of thumb: if it’s worth preaching it’s worth podcasting. The church needs to redeem technology and utilize new distribution channels.

What happens when Apple comes out with a video version of the iPod?

Why not vidcast messages?

Here’s the bottom line: I’m rethinking multi-site! Instead of a handful of locations in physical buildings, why not hundreds of thousands of podcast or vidcast subscribers carrying iPod nanos.

Thinking out loud.