Brandon O’Brien, associate editor for Leadership Journal, has written a new book, The Strategically Small Church. In this work, he seeks to demonstrate how small churches are uniquely equipped for ...

Aaron Griffith, pastor of Pawnee Christian Church, said he's happy when people show up to church. Although about 90 to 110 attend Pawnee Christian's worship each week, Griffith said he's "not ...

(RNS) — Among American churchgoers, roughly half are concentrated within a small fraction — less than 10% — of the nation’s churches, according to data reported earlier this year on church attendance ...

There’s a movement of microchurches that is challenging the prevailing church model.

In a conversation last week about the virtues of small churches, a pastor friend of mine, Chuck Warnock, quoted a passage from John Zogby’s 2008 book The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the ...

A recent report detailing the spiritual, demographic, and financial challenges faced by small congregations meant little to Robin Bartlett, pastor of First Church in Sterling, Massachusetts. “This ...

(RNS) — With social-distancing guidelines in place to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, small churches with less income and older parishioners may struggle with declining weekly tithes and ...

(RNS) — An initiative that seeks to financially help small and struggling churches in the wake of COVID-19 has raised more than $400,000 and received over 1,000 applications for funding. As part of ...

At Lovejoy Memorial United Methodist Church in Newnan, there’s row after row of empty pews. Usually, about 29 people attend Sunday services. Today, there are 17. “We had homecoming last Sunday, so ...

Church of the Highlands hosts thousands of Small Groups for members and attendees to join this spring. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Church of the Highlands is thrilled to launch over 5,000 Small ...

The decision was reached after 29 rounds of voting lasting a month ...