April 6, 2026
DiscipleShift 2026 is a two-day hands-on training experience designed to help pastors and church leaders make disciples of Jesus through authentic relationships. The event focuses on intentional leadership, relational disciple-making, small-group environments, alignment around a common mission, and building a disciple-making culture within the church.
April 6, 2026
DiscipleShift 2026 is a two-day hands-on training experience designed to help pastors and church leaders make disciples of Jesus through authentic relationships. The event focuses on intentional leadership, relational disciple-making, small-group environments, alignment around a common mission, and building a disciple-making culture within the church.
January 24, 2023
COVID-19 impacted churches everywhere in 2020, but two churches in Boise, Idaho, saw their futures forever altered through a merger that has spurred two years of growth and almost 50 baptisms during 2022.
January 29, 2020
This Church’s Outreach Approach Recycles Much More than Clothing and Furniture _ _ _ “I needed clothes and you clothed me.” By L. Mackenzie On December 15, 2008, leaders of The Crossing in Quincy, Illinois, were discussing possible changes to their benevolence strategy. Several of them had just visited a church in Post Falls, Idaho, where they sought out ideas for growth. Elder Bruce Freeman was among those who listened as an idea for a thrift store ministry was discussed. Freeman was head of benevolence, a man passionate about helping others. He also had 25 years of experience working in
May 8, 2014
Our annual megachurch chart is one of CHRISTIAN STANDARD”s most popular features. This year there are 62 churches listed as megachurches (those with 2,000 or more in weekly attendance) and 62 listed as emerging megachurches (those with average attendance of 1,000 to 1,999). Click here to look at the chart of the 2013 Megachurches and Emerging Megachurches.
February 18, 2012
By Jennifer Taylor In the fall of 2009, Pepperdine University opened the Churches of Christ Heritage Center on its campus in Malibu, CA. Today the collection of books, photographs, congregational histories, speeches, and other documents fills a room in the school”s library. “Many of these “˜artifacts” are connected to Pepperdine, like the catalog from the school”s first year in 1937,” says Jerry Rushford, director. “But there are also unusual pieces like a device from the 1920s used to fill Communion cups. A church in Idaho donated it to us.” In fact, the collection was created primarily with donations from
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