Focus on the Family Archives - MinistryWatch
And other notable ministry happenings from this week.
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World Vision remains atop the list while three new ministries join the top 10.
A list of the 50 largest Christian ministries curated from the MinistryWatch 1000 database as of October 29, 2025.
Jen Hatmaker deconstructs, the songs of Nashville, Truth Rising, and notable deaths
“Signs and Wonders” is a column that shares thoughts on news items that either don’t quite rise to the level of a news story for MinistryWatch, or are slightly (perhaps even significantly) outside our normal ...
A child psychologist by training, Dobson crossed over from academia to pro-family activism with his 1977 founding of Focus on the Family.
(RNS) — James C. Dobson, a psychologist, political activist, and author who championed Christian pro-family values on his popular radio shows and in his bestselling books, died Thursday (Aug. 21). He was 89. “Dr. Dobson ...
Total revenue for these ministries exceeds $1.9 billion.
A list of the largest media ministries in the U.S. based on the current data in the MinistryWatch 1000 database as of July 28, 2025.
Ministry targeted for biblical views of sex and marriage
Focus on the Family has joined a long list of conservative Christian ministries to receive a “hate group” designation by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
His behavior has revealed deficiencies in leadership among North American Anglicans
--If you are a conservative, Bible-believing Christian, there’s a lot to like about the Rev. Calvin Robinson. Raised in England, he stood up to the liberalism of the Church of England and, as a result, ...
More ministries call themselves a ‘church’ or ‘association of churches’ to avoid disclosure requirements
Since 2020, more than 80 of the 1,000 largest Christian ministries in the US have asked the Internal Revenue Service to classify them as an “association of churches.”
Upgrades for Missionary Athletes International and Moody Bible Institute; Downgrades for Focus on the Family and Kids for the Kingdom
Each week, we highlight ministries in our database that have had rating changes, plus a brief explanation about why it matters.
Almost 200 ministries comprise this list, including some of the largest in the country.
This second list for March from the MinistryWatch 1000 database features the 189 Christian ministries that do not file a Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service. The groups are listed alphabetically, and some of ...
