Megachurch World: Learning from the International Church

A church in Hungary came up with a clever, free way to broadcast its worship services weekly on a major television channel. A Nigerian denomination has figured out how to track Nigerian ex-pats and plant churches among them, starting 296 new churches in the last five years in the United Kingdom alone. An Australian church changed its name in a way that the rebranding got them all kinds of free—and positive—media publicity. One of South Korea’s largest-attendance churches found an ingenious way fit its downtown congregation on a track of less than two acres for parking, worship and Sunday school.

As Christianity grows outside of North America, even explosively in many countries, so does the potential to learn from their ministry innovations. In previous decades, if something big or unusual happened in North American church life, we quickly assumed it was the world’s largest or first. No more. Today, chances are that someone overseas is leading the way, pioneering in one of the many corners where response to the gospel is flourishing.

Now it’s our turn to learn from others. Read more