Articles for tag: Calvary Christian Church (Winchester KY)

September 25, 2019

Christian Standard

Church Vans Serving Community throughout Week (Plus News Briefs)

Compiled by Chris Moon and Jim Nieman Calvary Christian Church is among several organizations in Winchester, Ky., that have created a pilot program to help people in need of transportation, especially those individuals in recovery programs. “There were all these churches around town that have vans, and there’s all these people who need transportation,” Calvary pastor Mike McCormick told the Winchester Sun. “Could those vans be repurposed beyond Sunday morning . . . to be used for the benefit of the community? . . . At Calvary, we’re very intentional about wanting to serve the community and break down whatever

December 12, 2018

Christian Standard

Churches Rescue City’s Hoops Program (Plus News Briefs)

Compiled by Chris Moon Calvary Christian Church in Winchester, Ky., is ramping up for the little league basketball season one year after the church helped rescue the sports program after the closure of the community’s YMCA. Calvary Christian is one of several churches sponsoring Upward 40391, a Christian-based basketball and cheerleading program. The program came into existence after the Winchester YMCA closed in late 2016. “We were breaking down barriers and coming together for the cause of the kids,” CCC’s lead pastor Mike McCormick told the Winchester Sun. About 940 preschoolers through 12th-graders are signed up for the program this

May 18, 2012

Christian Standard

Multisites & Mergers

By Kent E. Fillinger Multisites are being created and church mergers are happening everywhere. Are they a certain path to church growth? Can they help a church evangelize better than it could from a single campus? What must a church do to successfully launch a second site? Multisites now outnumber megachurches, and the number of multisite churches is growing faster than the number of megachurches, according to a Leadership Network survey.1 One factor driving the increase is church mergers. The same Leadership Network survey found that one in three multisite campuses is the result of a church merger. One notable

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