Globally, 313 large congregations are a significant development in Protestant Christianity. In the United States, the phenomenon has more than quadrupled in the past two decades. It has since spread worldwide. In 2007, five of the ten largest Protestant churches were in South Korea. The largest megachurch in the United States is Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas with more than 40,000 members every weekend and the current largest megachurch in the world is South Korea's Yoido Full Gospel Church, an Assemblies of God church, with more than 830,000 members as of 2007 with 1,000,000 in 2015. My...

Over 300 pages of information, surveys, workshops and forms to use in the Sunday school and other areas of church organization.

Alton Loveless knows books and he knows how to write. With his rich history as a seminar speaker and later as the President of Randall House Publications, his life has been immersed with the printed page. In reflection, I sat at his feet many times and listened to him describe books that he had read. Often as John C. Maxwell and I would sit and talk with Alton, he would hold up a book by R.G. Lee or Warren Wiersbe and with a twinkle in his eye and passion in his voice, he would declare, "this is the best book I have ever read and you boys need to read it." I still treasure those books on my...

I spent 35 years active in Teacher Training workshops, Christian Education and Interpersonal Relationship seminars in this country and abroad presenting more than 1100. I traveled, spoke, was used as a consultant, or conducted seminars in 69 denominations and independent churches in all 50 of the States with the exception of Nebraska and North Dakota. I performed various roles in all the provinces of Canada, but five, and in 38 other foreign countries. The notes in this book represents some of those workshop programs.

This volumw has 1244 burial locations covering 46 states and 4 foreign countries from one of the oldest denominations in the United States and covers a vast range of ministers who set the pace for growth and change where ever they were. This edition contains those from New Mexico to Wisconsin. Every minister in every state had their own story to tell. This book will share these messages. I have found the history of every minister fascinating. I know you will also.

This book is a compilation of the responses I received from a poll sent, and from many files of material in my computer obtained over many years. For years I have compiled research from men, namely; Dr. Stan Toler, Dr. John Maxwell, Dr. Gary McIntosh, Charles Arn, Win Arn, Dr. Thom Rainer, Dr. Elmer towns, Lyle Schaller, Dr. Kenneth Gangel, Dr. Lawrence Richards and noted pollsters George Barna, George Gallup and David Kinnaman. I hope I have given credit property to those that I have included and regret that I did not know the sources of all my material. Much of my material came from...

This a book that reveals the largest mega-churches in the United States that have attendance from 1,000 up to 48,000 each week. They are list by city and state. One who would like this information in hand will want this book. The last chapter reveals the riches ministers.

Rev. H. S. Gordon, familiarly known as "Uncle Henry," organized, near where Campbell Hill now stands, the Looney Springs Free Baptist Church, the first church of what is now known as the Central Illinois Yearly Meeting of Free Baptists. That this work was of God and has been blessed of Him is certainly evidenced by the results accomplished and the fruits borne. In fifty years this movement so small in its beginning has grown to considerable proportions till at present our yearly meeting is composed of five quarterly meetings, as follows: Looney Springs, Lebanon, Franklin Co., Wayne Co., and...