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Kingdom Fellowship AME Church: ‘A Heart for the People’

Kingdom Fellowship also carries on the tradition of addressing community needs. “The Black church has always seen itself as providing not just spiritual leadership, but holistic leadership,” Pastor Matthew Watley says.

Embrace Church: Real Transformation

The church’s success is a testament to divine grace working through flawed people, Pastor Adam Weber insists. Embrace’s goal-setting process, called “traction,” has also multiplied its congregation.

CenterPoint Church: A Steady Presence in Long Island

“Our focus is always on reaching the lost and those who are far from God. We just keep honoring God, trying to reach our community, being missional and attractional, and person by person, they keep coming through the doors.” - Pastor Brian McMillan

Don’t Forget These 10 People at Christmas

Those who have wayward children who likely won’t be home for Christmas. Those parents grieve, too, sometimes in unique ways. They cling to hope that this might be the Christmas for return and reunion, then weep when it doesn’t happen.

About Your New Website

We added a number of automated functionalities that allow us to do such things as schedule pages, events, informational pop-ups with a direct “call to action” (CTA) and more, to go live/hide automatically. Our administrative team now genuflects in our tech team’s direction.

Keeping Christ in Christmas — Without Meeting In Person on Sunday

Many if not most churches choosing to not hold in-person services on Christmas Day are offering online services.

A God-Shaped Vision

Back in 2001, the leadership team at Shades Mountain Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, launched a vision plan that laid out some lofty goals....

Christmas Strife — Not All That Merry and Bright

There are people in our nation today who don’t want us to merely tolerate their views; they want us to accept them—and, even more so, endorse them. This can’t happen, because as Christians, we stand on the Scriptures.

What Gift Are You Bringing to Jesus?

Since that day, Meck comes together as a church to give the most generous gift we can – above and beyond our normal giving – as a direct gift to Christ Himself at Christmas to celebrate His birthday.

Try This!: 100 Outreach Ideas for the Post-Pandemic Church

Invite kids to come to church one weeknight to learn more about the Bible by playing with LEGOs.

Dishin’ With Dolores

We wanted to focus on real-life challenges and offer help and encouragement for parents.