Church Archives - Page 148 of 201 - MinistryWatch
Below is a list of the Top 15 stories of the year, as ranked by the number of page views at the MinistryWatch website, plus a bit of description and commentary for each story.
The Rev. Frank Barker, whose 4,000-member Briarwood Presbyterian Church grew from a Birmingham, Alabama, storefront before he helped found a conservative branch of Presbyterianism, has died. He was 89.
For many seminarians, Young is a harbinger of the difficulties many of them will face as they graduate into a religious landscape that has been transformed — spiritually, physically, politically and logistically — by COVID-19, ...
A former Ohio youth pastor has pleaded guilty to seven sex charges involving contact with underage girls.
When Westminster United Methodist Church in Houston resumed in-person services late last year, after a seven-month halt due to COVID-19, there were Sundays when only three worshippers showed up, according to the pastor, Meredith Mills.
Leaders of the United Methodist Church and the Boy Scouts of America have reached an agreement tied to a proposed multibillion-dollar settlement that would assist tens of thousands of sexual abuse survivors.
More than half of Christian congregations say they have started a new ministry or expanded an existing one during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey.
Supporting a full-time minister requires an average of 130 or more in worship, according to MacDonald, who cited research by the Hope Partnership for Missional Transformation, an Indianapolis-based consultancy that’s worked with hundreds of churches ...
The richest pastor in America pays no property taxes on his 18,000-square-foot Texas mansion thanks to a loophole in the state tax code, The Houston Chronicle reported.
A former pastor in Vernon, Texas, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison after he pleaded guilty last week to aggravated sexual assault of a child.
