Greg surratt biography

About Greg Greg is the founding pastor of Seacoast Church, one of the early adopters of the multi-site model. Located in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, Seacoast has been recognized by various media as an innovative and influential thought leader in future strategies for church growth and development. Seacoast combines a unique approach to highly participatory worship with a heart for missional evangelism. Greg calls their weekends a “practical, spirit filled, but non-spooky, yet kind of mystical worship experience, done in multiple locations, very inexpensively.” Seacoast currently has 29 weekend worship experiences in 13 separate locations. Greg is also a founding board member of the Association of Related Churches (ARC), a church planting network that has given birth to over 200 churches in the last 10 years. He is married to a very hip grandma, has 4 children, 9 grandchildren and enjoys reading, photography, fishing, golfing and rooting for lost causes…specifically the Cubs, Broncos, and Gamecocks.

As senior pastor of Seacoast Church near Charleston, South Carolina, Greg Surratt was speaking at an annual vision meeting when he spit out something that even he believed was preposterous.

He challenged his church to plant 2,000 churches.

In a face-to-face interview with Outreach, Greg confessed: “The second I said it, I asked myself: Why did I just say that? That’s ridiculous.”

Sixteen years after developing the Association of Related Churches (ARC), Surratt said 564 churches have been planted. The author of several books, including Ir-rev-rend: Christianity Without the Pretense. Faith Without the Façade, Greg sat down to talk with writer Rob Wilkins about his addiction to church planting, the exponential growth of pay-it-forward next-generation relationships and the surprises springing from a life-giving model of church.

Tell me about the challenge to plant 2,000 churches.

I got this idea that just sounded crazy, really nuts, that we would launch 2,000 churches by the time I died. I was speaking at an annual vision night for our ch

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