Hope Community Church Part of Feature About Megachurches
Posted by Liz Cutler Gates on June 24, 2009
Hope Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Cary, N.C., was among those mentioned in a June 18 story in the News-Observer (Raleigh-Durham-Cary-Chapel Hill). To read the complete story, click here.
The story cites a study that say many attenders of megachurches tend to be younger, unmarried, and college graduates. The study, by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research and the Leadership Network of Dallas, also noted that 45 percent of megachurch-goers don’t volunteer and 32 percent don’t give money, though the longer they stay in a church, the more they give.
The News-Observer interviewed people from several of the “dozen” megachurches — defined as having an attendance of 2,000 or more — in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle.
Hope Community Church Pastor Mike Lee was quoted in the story.
Pastors of megachurches say they weren’t surprised by the findings about volunteering or giving.
“A lot of the people we reach are coming back to church,” said Mike Lee, senior pastor at Hope Community Church. “We know it’s a process of giving people time before they can trust God. We would rather have them here and address their needs.”
To read the rest of the story, click here.
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