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Multilingual Churches with Multiple Languages
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As churches adapt to serving a multicultural global village and communities with more diversity, some are developing ministries in multiple languages. (cf. polyglot – someone who can speak multiple languages) Many ethnic Asian churches and other immigrant churches have done that for decades. For some ethnic Korean churches, they’re ministering in Korean and English, for Chinese…
U.S. Church Diversity has nearly doubled from 1998 to 2010
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The percentage of multiethnic churches in America has grown from 7.5% in 1998 to 13.7% in 2010, based on 2 different survey-bases studies, using a 20% minority criteria. One of the leading church researchers, Dr. Scott Thumma (Professor of Sociology of Religion, Hartford Seminary), posted this on the Huffington Post blog, Racial Diversity Increasing In…
List of Churches with Innovation Pastors
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@ churchWhat may be emerging is a new role in the church: pastor of innovation. (Granted this may not become mainstream where every church would have one, since most churches have more pressing operational day-to-day needs.) I’ll do my part to keep this list updated. (Please do add to this list.) How much of their job…
Asian American churches around the OC and the world
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2013 OC Register article, “O.C. exports Asian American churches to the world” featured the stories of next generation Asian American churches in Orange County, California..
The coming Evangelical recession in America is already here
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@ churchThe current event of the day does not bode well for America on the whole, with regards to unity for a diverse people holding different convictions, and for the Evangelical church, on many fronts. Within 48 hours of the official invitation, Pastor Louie Giglio announced that he’s “respectfully withdraw my acceptance of the President’s invitation”…
Most popular Facebook pages of churches and ministries 2012
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See the list of the most popular Facebook pages of churches and ministries with the most likes at SocialMedia.Church
Making of a Movement: Multi-site Churches
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@ churchThere’s something exciting about being a part of movement. And there are some people who want to start a movement. How do you start a movement? One of the most significant movements in recent church history is an (organized) church that meets in multiple locations, the multi-site church movement. I connected with Greg Ligon to…
Listen to leading voices from the global church
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The world is much bigger than America, and according to what’s reported in books like The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, people are responding to the Christian Gospel message in far larger numbers in Africa and Asia than America. While the marketing platforms aren’t being used as actively in the non-Western world to…
Top 10 of some creative church names
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@ churchThere are so many other ways to name a church than to use a generic Anytown Church, Christian Fellowship, or First Congregational Church. And I don’t mean the cool and/or hipster way. There are some unique church names that might raise an eyebrow or garner the attention of a second glance. For example, who says…
why Megachurches draw attendance and attention
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@ churchWhen it comes to religion in America, megachurches have a particular draw. Each megachurch has at least 2,000 in attendance on a typical weekend, most of them with multiple worship services, and an increasing number with multiple locations. (actually, the largest megachurches in the world are outside of the US.) And megachurches get more than…
Worlds colliding with church leader conferences
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Conferences are kinda of a big deal, even in the 21st century where the internet can deliver content nearly instantly globally and hundreds of digital platforms for online meetings are available, but not yet the norm in most circles. And, it’s big business: RCMA (Religious Conference Management Association) member meetings drew more than 5.3 million…
