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Granger Community Church launches a new service at their Elkhart campus, held in a movie theater and is 100% video... beginning to end... no live elements.
"Changes in American Megachurches: Tracing Eight Years of Growth and Innovation in the Nation's Largest-attendance Congregations" -- report based on research jointly conducted by Hartford Institute...
From The Barna Update, "Back in 2000, just one-third of Protestant churches (34%) had a church website. That exploded to 57% in 2005, and has inched upward since then to 62%."
"Dr. Warren Bird... the research director for the Leadership Network... co-authored "The Multi-Site Church Revolution." He estimates that nationwide there are about 2,500 churches following this [...
Marin Alsop, the first woman to direct a major American orchestra, stepped into her new position with a performance on Sept. 27, 2007.
a compilation of internet stories and resources that would be of interest to pastors and church leaders across the United States and the world -- curated by Todd Rhoades
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Catalyst created a conference specifically focused on leaders under the age of 40. In Atlanta, GA, Catalyst convened 1500 church leaders for their inaugural experience.
Nancy Ortberg served as a teaching pastor for eight years at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. During that time she led Network, a ministry that helps people their spirit...
Bill Hybels
National Community Church held its first Sunday service on January 7, 1996. During the first nine months of 1996, average attendance at Sunday services was between 20-25 people. At the time, all me...
Mars Hill Church was established in 1996 by pastors Mark Driscoll, Lief Moi and Mike Gunn and when the original twelve members began meeting in the living room of the Driscoll family's home in Wall...
In January of 1996, Life Church began in Oklahoma City with 40 congregants meeting together "in a two-car garage, equipped with just a borrowed overhead projector and two construction lights purcha...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 1996--WebTV Networks, Inc. today hosted the first public demonstration of WebTV for hundreds of media and industry representatives at the Equitable Auditorium in...
Google began in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page, who was soon joined by Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. They hypothesized that a search engin...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 1996--eBay Inc. announced today a record number of completed auctions in 1996 for its online auction service, AuctionWeb. Since January, the company ...
Since 1996, Willow Creek Association has held an annual Leadership Summit. Speakers at the Leadership Summit have included Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, Karen Hughes, Special Advisor to...
The first version of RealAudio was released in 1995. RealAudio was developed as a streaming media format, meaning that it can be played while it is downloaded. It is possible to stream RealAudio u...
The Purpose Driven Church has been translated into over 30 languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. It is listed in 100 Christian Books That Changed the Century and has been gi...
Saddleback famously did not build its first permanent building until it had 10,000 weekly attenders. When the current Lake Forest campus was purchased in the early 1990's, a 2,300 seat plastic tent...
In 1995 he left Skyline Wesleyan Church (near San Diego) to devote himself full-time to speaking and writing. He credits his leadership instincts and his early leadership training to his father Me...
In November 1995, Andy Stanley stood in front of a gathering of believers at a North Atlanta convention center and cast the vision for a new church. He said, "Atlanta does not need another church. ...
DVD" was originally used as an initialism for the unofficial term "digital videodisk". It was reported in 1995, at the time of the specification finalization, that the letters officially stood for...
In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford University. In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". Filo and ...
Maya Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration.
Introduced on March 22, 1993, the Pentium succeeded the Intel486, in which the number "4" signified the fourth-generation microarchitecture. Intel selected the Pentium name after courts had disallo...
In her novels, Toni Morrison focuses on the experience of black Americans, particularly emphasizing black women's experience in an unjust society and the search for cultural She uses fantasy and my...
The Message Bible was published in piecemeal over a nine year period. The New Testament was published in 1993. The Old Testament Wisdom Books were published in 1998. The Old Testament Prophets were...
Since 1992, the Willow Creek Association (WCA) has been linking innovative, outreach-oriented church leaders with one another and with strategic vision, training, and resources. Now a worldwide net...
The first official PK conference was held in July 1991. Approximately 4200 men were in attendance.
In 1991, Craig Groeschel entered the ministry as an associate pastor in the United Methodist Church. He attended Phillips Theological Seminary, which is affiliated with the Christian Church (Discip...
Churches began to embrace the multi-site church model shortly after the turn of the 21st century. However, the behind the current approach to the multi-site church began to stir in the 1990s, with ...
Since its debut on December 17, 1989, the show has broadcast 420 episodes and the twentieth season will commence airing in fall of 2008.
Wow... 256,000 color VGA graphics, 80386 processor running at 'lightning fast 20 MHz. 2 MB RAM; DOS 3.3, MS OS/2. A great value. Mouse support included (but the mouse is extra!) Click the lin...
Mark Driscoll was born in Grand Forks, North Dakotaand is a 1989 graduate of Highline High School in Burien, Washington,where he served as student body president and editor of the school newspaper....
Fellowship Church Dallas started in 1989 as a mission church of the First Baptist Church of Irving, Texas, and was initially known as "Las Colinas Baptist Church". Approximately 150 members of Firs...
Digital Service: A method of encoding information using a binary code of 0s and 1s. Most newer wireless phones and networks use digital technology. In digital, the analog voice signal is converted ...
The Church Copyright License service was birthed in the music department of a large church called Bible Temple in Portland, Oregon, USA. It began in 1984 when the pastor first became aware of the C...
America faces problems domestically and internationally that must be tackled and solved. These include immorality, a failing educational system, national debt and tolerance of oppression in other c...
In 1985, after a teenager killed himself while listening to Ozzy's song "Suicide Solution," Swaggart went on a crusade against rock music and took every opportunity to point out Osbourne's depravit...
Nancy Beach becomes Programming Director for Willow Creek Community Church.
Heritage USA opened in 1978, and by 1986 was one of the top vacation destinations in the nation, behind only Walt Disney World and Disneyland, attracting nearly 6 million visitors annually and empl...
In 1986, FedEx introduces tracking to the shipping industry, allowing customers to see where their shipments are.
In 1986, Swaggart exposed fellow Assemblies of God minister Marvin Gorman, who was accused of having an affair with another pastor's wife, who was at the time undergoing counseling with Pastor Gorm...
Joyce Meyer Ministries was officially launched from Dave and Joyce Meyer’s basement with only two employees and a cardboard box for a desk.
Lynette Woodward becomes the first woman member of Harlem Globetrotters.
Windows 1.0 was a 16-bit graphical operating environment released on November 20, 1985. It was Microsoft's first attempt to implement a multi-tasking graphical user interface-based operating enviro...
Since 1984, Leadership Network has fostered church innovation and growth ... that are consistent with our far-reaching mission: to connect and help high-capacity Christian leaders multiply their im...
The Macintosh was the original Apple Macintosh personal computer. Introduced by a single televised broadcast of the now famous US$1.5 million Ridley Scott television commercial, "1984" (which aired...
Beginning in 1984, Leadership Network has fostered church innovation and growth through strategies, programs, tools and resources that are consistent with their far-reaching mission: to connect and...
Sally Kristen Ride is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut who in 1983 became the first American woman to reach outer space. At the time, she was the youngest American to enter outer s...
Eddie DeGarmo: "We were the first Christian group on MTV with a video called '666.' Then they banned us a few months later when they figured out we were a Christian group. Jane Pauley mentioned it...
First airing on January 10, 1984, "Fluffy Bun" featured three elderly ladies examining an exaggeratedly large hamburger bun topped with a minuscule hamburger patty: the other two ladies poked at it...
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