Influential Churches


Via The Church Report

This survey was sent to 2,000 church leaders with the goal of ranking the nation’s fastest growing churches and churches with more than 2,000 weekend attendance. The 127 churches nominated for the 50 Most Influential Churches survey were located in 32 states and represented 27 affiliation groups and/or denominations.

It would be fascinating to read about the 50 most influential Children’s Ministries in the world, and if they correlate to the 50 most influential churches…

On that note, what are your top five influences in your ministry to kids?

Leave a comment, I will need to think on it a bit.

Information and Links

Join the fray by commenting, tracking what others have to say, or linking to it from your blog.

Information
May 22nd, 2006
8 Responses
Feeds and Links
Comment Feed
From This Author
Del.icio.us
Digg
Technorati
Categories
Culture
Leadership

Other Posts
T-Quilizer - T-Shirt with Sound Activated Equilizer
Google Maps Australia and New Zealand

Write a Comment

Take a moment to comment and tell us what you think. Some basic HTML is allowed for formatting.

Reader Comments

Comment Number:
1
Written by:
Pastor Todd McKeever
Posted on:
May 23, 2006 at 1:29 am

Are you talking “top influencES” or “top influencER’s”?

Comment Number:
2
Written by:
Dave Wakerley
Posted on:
May 23, 2006 at 10:55 am

Hmm,

Probably InfluencER’s, although if there is a general ministry that has influenced you that would be cool.

Dave

Comment Number:
3
Written by:
Justin Browning
Posted on:
May 27, 2006 at 8:53 am

Northpoint Community Church- Reggie Joiner and Andy Stanley
Willow Creek - Sue Miller

Comment Number:
4
Written by:
Dave Wakerley
Posted on:
May 27, 2006 at 11:17 pm

Justin, I gotta agree with ya.

After discovering Northpoint a few months ago, and checking out some of their resources, I have tweaked the way we do things quite dramatically.

Also George Barna, with his book Creating Spiritual Champions. Not a children’s ministry exactly, but influential.

Dave

Comment Number:
5
Written by:
Joe Short
Posted on:
May 28, 2006 at 6:23 am

McLean Bible Church, McLean, Virginia. They have an amazing Children’s Ministry (Kid’s Quest) that is exciting and bible-focused.

Mountain View Community Church, Culpeper, Virginia. Their children’s ministry (Kid’s View) leadership is influencing children’s ministries in Chuches all across the entire region of the state!

Comment Number:
6
Written by:
Kathryn
Posted on:
June 2, 2006 at 12:24 am

Reggie Joiner

Sue Miller

Bill Hybels

George Barna

http://www.familywise.org (Northpoint/Reggie Joiner resources and curriculum.)

Comment Number:
7
Written by:
Keith D. Johnson
Posted on:
June 4, 2006 at 3:25 pm

It’s interesting how those who influence are CREATORS of their own curriculum and culture. Compare that with those who do not and merely are coasting on a previous pastors’ impact (Church on the Way in Van Nuys, Fellowship Bible in N. Plano). What is more interesting is the WAY these churches are influential. For instance, Northridge Church in Plymouth, MI actually MOVED and changed their name and then became HUGE. Wooddale Church (where I worked in the 90s) did the same thing. BOTH are different in their influence. I’m amazed at Univ. Pres. in Seattle, WA (Earl Palmer used to be at Univ. Pres. in Berkeley where he was MORE amazing) being on the list instead of Overlake Christian Center (in Redmond, near Microsoft HQ), or 1st Baptist (Charles Stanley is so much diminished) or even Crystal Cathedral (Schuller has about 200 kids in the ministry while the church has built a graveyard, for crying out loud). I dare anyone to look into Bethlehem Baptist’s Children’s Ministry (John Piper is the Jonathan Edwards of our day, though John has yet to be kicked out of his church) and just try to make sense out of their approach! Children’s Ministry Influence? Mike Johnson at Fellowship Church in Grapevine, TX is AMAZING (and why isn’t Prestonwood Baptist on the list??? They’re JUST as remarkable). Incidentally, Mike at Fellowship has some of the best printed brochures of anyone in ministry!!! And finally, GLIDE???? San Francisco???? What in the world!!!!

Comment Number:
8
Written by:
Dave Wakerley
Posted on:
June 4, 2006 at 4:04 pm

Thanks foy you input Keith!

I am gonna have to look into these churches!

Dave