Church Profiles

Calvary Church of Naperville: Calling All Champions

The church has added Champions Nursery, which serves special needs children from birth to 4 years old in a sensory-friendly environment.

Temple Baptist Church: Let’s Go Serve

This growing Mississippi church cares for those with disabilities, people in their community, and ministries around the world.

Highland Baptist Church: A Heart for Gen Z

Gen Z places a high value on prayer and worship, and they appreciate authenticity from leadership and the pulpit. Most of all, Gen Z craves the truth of Scripture.

First Baptist Leesburg: More Than Sunday Morning

“We minister to the broken people in our community through many ministries, and we attract a lot of people who want to join our church because of our ministries,” says Art Ayris, executive pastor of administration at First Baptist.

Evangel Church: Never Stop Serving

Last year, Evangel started a church two hours away inside the largest women’s prison in New York. A pastor and a team go every Thursday to share a message, preach and lead worship for the prisoners.

Hills Church: New Name, Same Mission

Hills Church has grown, in part, due to Marksman—a strategy for men focused on reaching and discipling other men that includes a 6-week Bible study boot camp.

Bethlehem Church: What You Celebrate, You Replicate

The power of storytelling is used throughout the year to proclaim God’s goodness to the congregation, and it seems to be affecting church growth positively.

FBC Simpsonville: Raising the Sails

Pastor Wayne Bray maintains that God has organically been building and evolving their church year after year.

Elevate Life Church CT: Leave the Key Under the Mat

“When you walk into the church, I want you to feel life, I want you to feel joy, I want you to feel enthusiasm, I want you to feel passion...." -Pastor Jeremy Baker

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.