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In 2007, the largest megachurch in the world by attendance was South Korea's Yoido Full Gospel Church, an Assemblies of God (Pentecostal) church, with more than 830,000 members. [25] [26] Graha Bethany Nginden, is a megachurch which is one of the largest churches in Surabaya, Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
The same source also lists more than 1,300 such Protestant and Evangelical churches in the United States with a weekly attendance of more than 2,000, meeting the definition of a megachurch. [ 4 ] As the term megachurch in common parlance refers to Protestant congregations; although there are some Catholic parishes which would meet the criteria ...
The church also has a program for helping homeless people acquiring skills, thus helping them back to a normal life and work. According to the church, 2,000 children have been helped off the street, and have been returned to their families. Furthermore, the church runs a 24-hour hot-line, named "Trust line", [7] for people to call in need. The ...
The church will officially launch its campus at 4451 Winchester Road on Aug. 11, though services have been ongoing at the site, which was previously Cornerstone Baptist Church. “Lexington is ...
It was — for God’s sake — Rev. Adams. His corner house on Fairfield and Clarita, always pristine, was his domain. ... Now, we take for granted that when a mega church is built, with it will ...
Robert Morris, founding pastor of the megachurch Gateway, delivers a sermon at the church in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2018. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times / Redux Pictures)
Large churches from other denominations, like Catholicism, are not included as they are not deemed to belong to the megachurch phenomenon which by definition is part of Protestantism. The list is not exhaustive, there are large annual changes, and there are difficulties to compare the churches as different methods to count can be used.
A megachurch affiliated with the World Assemblies of God Fellowship having 2,000 or more worshippers for a typical weekly service. According to a 1996 statistic, nearly one in ten megachurches in the United States are affiliated with the General Council of the Assemblies of God .