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Pastor GJ Barnes 10,000 [22] African Methodist Episcopal Church: Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church Philadelphia: PA Alyn E. Waller 15,000 [citation needed] Baptist: Yes west EPIC Church International: Sayreville: NJ John J. Wagner 10,100 [3] Non-denominational Faith Landmarks Ministries Richmond: VA Randy Gilbert 10,000 [citation needed] Family ...
The church started in 1956 as a mission of Broadway Christian Church in Lexington. The founding pastor, Wayne Smith, came from Unity Christian Church (near Cynthiana, Kentucky), and held the first service with 172 people in attendance. The church was originally located on Hill 'N Dale Drive (near Southland Drive) in Lexington.
This list of the largest evangelical megachurches contains evangelical Christian megachurches by weekly attendance. 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 .
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A pastor at Stonbriar Community Church in nearby Frisco also resigned after 17 years due to an unspecified "moral failure," while a former pastor at the North Dallas Community Bible Fellowship in ...
Music, Smith also formed The Word for Today in 1978, a publishing/radio broadcasting ministry that is still in existence. [5] [better source needed] On October 3, 2013, Smith died after a long battle with lung cancer. He remained as senior pastor at the church throughout his illness, including preaching at three services the Sunday before his ...
Rev Jonathan Evans steps in for his father at a Dallas megachurch. Dr Tony Evans resigned from the church after 48 years saying he had committed ‘sin.’ (Jonathan Evans / YouTube screengrab)
In 1969 Calvary Chapel became a hub in what later became known as the Jesus movement when Smith's daughter introduced him to her boyfriend John Higgins Jr., a former hippie who had become a Christian, and who went on to head the largest Jesus freak movement in history, the Shiloh Youth Revival Centers (1968-1989). [5]