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We currently attend a 25,000 member church here in Chicagoland. Are there any Mega Churches in the Raleigh area?
Not the super mega churches.....yet. There are plenty of large enough ones.
Believe me....if you can't find a Christian church around here, you aren't trying. There are plenty of other religious houses of worship for others as well....just not as many of them yet.
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it's funny how we all want different things. I actuall prefer that there not be mega churches. I like small local churches where you know the people, but just big enough to have a nice sized youth group.
I don't live in the NC area (at least not yet), I live in a development and attend the church that's within the development less than a mile away. On the rare occassion that we're not running late and the weather's nice we actually walk there.
Are there nice small but not too small Methodist churches in the Durham area?
There is a rather large church on Glenwood Avenue, across from Pleasant Valley Promenade. I can't remember the name but it WAS a hotel until the church bought it.
No! Mega is not a requirement. But we do prefer the larger size churches. We feel the larger the Church the more impact it has on a community. My church offer everthing from a soup kitchen and a cot, supprting families that the Father is at war. We will pay for the funural of a fallen soilder to providing cars to single moms. Which is a great ministry! We give cars that were donated ,to single Moms that need help. We provide everthing from gas cards to oil changes. amd on occasion engin replacements. Small churches struggle all the time with keeping the bills paid. Our church sits on millions at any given time. It's all about serving others. And my experience has been small churches simply are not able to. Being involved in a large church provides me with endless opportunities to help someone in need.
That's very nice and you can do lots with a Mega church. But Jesus accomplished more with just 12 men and individuals than he ever did with a group. Those things are nice but " sitting on millions " is the the reason personally a Mega church would not be for me. It should never be what can be accomplished with millions then we take the focus off of Christ, who came riding on a donkey. Believe me money can do much as you stated and mega churches are great and do many things, but lets never forget it's not what you can do with money, maybe you should try to see how you can help someone without the money being a factor. Almost always there is a more important deeper issue that needs fixing more than the material.
God Bless
Are there nice small but not too small Methodist churches in the Durham area?
There are many, *many* Methodist churches in the Durham area. For good reason: The Duke family, which brought industry and Trinity College (later Duke Univ.) to Durham, were very devout Methodists and big supporters of the church. In fact, the Duke Endowment to this day supports philanthropy in NC/SC, Duke and other universities... and, rural United Methodist Churches in NC.
There are a number of beautiful Methodist churches in Durham with strong and active congregations.
I used to live near the church VickiR was talking about glenwood avenue and it is huge. I just cannot remember the name of it now! I think they even had a private school set up there. If I think of the name, I'll post it here.
There are some larger churches in the area which have been around for as long as I can remember and while they probably don't qualify as mega churches, I think they've supported themsleves and the community well over the decades.
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