Church Profiles

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

Resurrecting an Urban Neighborhood

Providence Bible Church in Denver is committed to socioeconomic, generational and racial diversity.

Building a Sustainable Community Outreach Ministry

How Woodmen Valley Chapel in Colorado Springs has embedded itself in the community through creative outreach.

Doing Whatever It Takes to Reach the Lost

The pastor of Daybreak Church in Hudsonville, Michigan is committed to doing evangelism at any cost.

Empowering the Congregation to Make a Local and Global Impact

Sandy Hook UMC in Columbus, Indiana, has an impact that far exceeds its size. The secret? Decentralized funding.

How a Dying Texas Church Was Transformed Through Service

Numbers started growing at Living Proof Church once people saw that the church was helping their friends and neighbors.

The Elements: Hip-Hop Church Reaches Bronx Community

Pastor E, a Christian hip-hop artist himself, has found ways to incorporate the genre into everything Elements Church does.

Missouri Church Embraces and Celebrates Diversity

“We like to say that our church is where we come to be celebrated,” Lead Pastor Damon Duran says, “not just be tolerated.”

Crowds Flock Across State Lines to Small Church’s Annual Passion Play

Church in New Galilee, Pennsylvania, population 400, attracts hundreds of guests each year for Easter-themed play.