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Old 11-07-2008, 12:53 PM
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I just hung up with one of the Pastors and he's laughing!
He has no clue who gave these people those numbers for his church...
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I just hung up with one of the Pastors and he's laughing!
He has no clue who gave these people those numbers for his church...
Looks like they only had three numbers they used - 3000, 2050, 2000 - maybe those are codes for something and not the attendance - lol!
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How does anyone pastor a church that big? Must be some busy preachers.
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Maybe they meant square footage???
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They were probably reading some old Easter Sunday School reports...because those numbers were all true....
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They were probably reading some old Easter Sunday School reports...because those numbers were all true....


A lot of churches have Easter productions and full weekend events on Easter and add all 3-4 services up to one total
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Maybe they meant square footage???
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The Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion Research, is one of the world’s leading and most respected religious research institutions. Its researchers keep a database on mega churches in the US. They define a mega church in part as having a weekly attendance of 2000 people.

Here is the link to the database: http://hirr.hartsem.edu/cgi-bin/mega...ds=1&ID=*&sb=2

According to its database, it lists the following 15 UPCI (and now some former UPCI) congregations as mega churches out of 1360 nationwide:

Christian Life Center
Nathaniel Haney - Stockton, CA
Attendance 5000

Calvary Tabernacle
Paul Mooney - Indianapolis, IN
Attendance 3000

Revival Center
Randy Keyes - Modesto, CA
Attendance 3000

Life Tabernacle
James Kilgore - Houston, TX
Attendance 3000

The Pentecostals of Alexandria
Anthony Mangun - Alexandria, LA
Attendance: 2800

Truth Tabernacle
Vaughn Morton - Fresno, CA
Attendance 2500

Woodlawn Pentecostal Church
James Carney - Columbia, MS
Attendance 2500

Apostolic Church of Auburn Hills
Steve Warman - Auburn Hills, MI
Attendance 2200

First Pentecostal Church
Chris Craft – Jackson, MS
Attendance 2050

New Life Tabernacle
Mike Mitchell - Brooklyn ,NY
Attendance 2050

The Pentecostals
Mark Foster - West Monroe, LA
Attendance 2050

Revival Tabernacle/The Anchor
James Larson San Diego, CA
Attendance 2000

The Pentecostals
Mark Hattabaugh - Cooper City, FL
Attendance 2000

East Valley Pentecostal Church
John Nelson - San Jose, CA
Attendance 2000

The Rock Church
Myles Young - Elk Grove, CA
Attendance 2000

I believe these numbers are from 2007. Can anyone verify the accuracy of these attendance numbers? I am somewhat familiar with the churches in California and the numbers seem to be very inflated.

What a joke, i work at one of these churches and its NEVER been that big. Matter of fact the number is off by at least 70%!
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The is NO WAY that Jim Larson's church is 2OOO!!! Maybe 500 max on a Sunday.
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The is NO WAY that Jim Larson's church is 2OOO!!! Maybe 500 max on a Sunday.

That's why I said those are Easter Sunday totals (remember "king of kings"?)
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