June 26, 2025
“How Will Revival Come?,” A Christian Standard Article from May 25, 1957
It is our sincere conviction that a genuine Christian revival in our generation must begin with and be channeled through the local church.
Articles for tag: Church Revival
July 17, 2016
Never Give Up
By David Eubanks In the spring of 1963, while I was a professor at Johnson University, I preached for the Main Street Christian Church, McConnelsville, Ohio. It was the most productive revival I have ever held in terms of attendance growth and responses for both conversion and placing membership with the congregation. In a church running 150 on Sunday morning, the attendance increased every night to more than 300 on Friday evening, with chairs set up and down the aisles and even on the platform. The whole experience was exhilarating. There were 79 responses to the invitation, 39 of them
June 12, 2011
Large, Healthy Churches Merge in Phoenix Area
By Jennifer Taylor What if thousands of people drove past one another on the highway to worship at churches that weren”t located too far apart? What if both churches coordinated hundreds of small groups in their communities””groups studying different material and never working together to reach the city? When Christ”s Church of the Valley (Peoria, AZ) and Parkway Christian Church (Surprise, AZ) saw this scenario playing out in their shared mission field, they made a surprising decision””to merge both churches and do more together than they could apart. The two churches, both located in suburbs of Phoenix, officially merged in
