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[1] [2] According to The Hartford Institute's database, approximately 50 churches had attendance ranging from 10,000 to 47,000 in 2010. [3] The same source also lists more than 1,300 such Protestant and Evangelical churches in the United States with a weekly attendance of more than 2,000, meeting the definition of a megachurch. [4]
In 2010, the Hartford Institute's database listed more than 1,300 megachurches in the United States. About 50 churches on the list had average attendance exceeding 10,000, and one had 47,000. [22] On one weekend in November 2015, around one in ten Protestant churchgoers in the U.S.—about 5 million people—attended service in a megachurch. [23]
Hartford Seminary's origins date back to 1833 when the Pastoral Union of Connecticut was formed to train Congregational ministers. [2] The next year the Theological Institute of Connecticut was founded at East Windsor Hill, Connecticut. The institution moved to Hartford in 1865 and officially took the name Hartford Theological Seminary in 1885. [2]
Post-pandemic burnout is at worrying levels among Christian clergy in the U.S., prompting many to think about abandoning their jobs, according to a new nationwide survey. More than 4 in 10 of ...
The church's rapid growth led to its inclusion in Outreach Magazine's "Top 100 Fastest-Growing Churches in America" in 2008. [3] [better source needed] In January 2019, Harvest Bible Chapel was listed in the Hartford Institute's database of American megachurches as one of the 50 largest churches in the United States. [4]
Churches part of the Assemblies of God in Australia; Futures Church in Paradise, Adelaide, SA (6,000) Horizon Church (formerly Shirelive Church) in Sutherland, Sydney, NSW (3,200) Garden City Christian Church in Mt Gravatt, Brisbane, QLD (3,000) Edge Church in Reynella, Adelaide, SA (3,000) Planetshakers City Church in East Melbourne, Melbourne ...
Says David Roozen, Director of Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion Research, "Location, Location, Location used to be the kind way that researchers described the extent to which the growth or decline of American congregations was captive to the demographic changes going on in their immediate neighborhoods."
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. The list is not exhaustive, there are large annual changes, and there are difficulties to compare the churches as different methods to count can be used.