From the site: "The Barna Group examined data from nine national surveys, involving interviews with more than 8,600 adults, conducted right before the attacks and at regular intervals since then. The study shows that despite an intense surge in religious
"...training pastors to start congregations from scratch, sending them off with seed money and a vision statement to locations that range from quiet retirement communities to tough cities and inner-ring suburbs."
Their numbers have doubled in the last five years from 600 to 1,200 nationwide. And now, more and more, a single church may become a megachurch by having branches at several locations.
Interview with scholar and believer Gordon Anderson, president of North Central University, an Assemblies of God-operated institution in downtown Minneapolis.
"Church Growth Today surveyed the leaders of more than 2,000 of the largest non-catholic congregations as well as a few smaller churches in the United States. Participants were asked to name the ten churches that they consider to be the most influential.