Almost everyone involved in the life of the American church is asking, “Where do we go from here?” Here are 5 ideas.

Small church pastors are encouraged to leverage their strengths to avoid permanently closing their doors, according to a ...

When thinking about the number of people attending their church each week, the experience of the average pastor is vastly ...

It just became too difficult for a small congregation to maintain it." A final vote by church leaders in May at the UMC Greater New Jersey Annual Conference sealed the church's fate. "Despite ...

He and his wife rushed to 1092 Scott Lake Rd. in Waterford and found the small wooden church almost ... The Clinton River Church congregation bought this Waterford Church 27 days before fire ...

“But nobody thinks it is going to be their church.” For more than a century, the small congregation at Monticello and Berteau avenues in Chicago had proved resilient, ready to adapt to the ...

Stephanie Van Horn loves the flower cutouts in the old wooden archways inside the Franklin Unitarian Universalist Congregation parish hall. The hall is a grand space for a small congregation ...

This story was updated to provide free access. LUCK — By almost any measure, West Denmark Lutheran Church is a small congregation. About 35 members gather to worship on a typical Sunday.

NOW HE AND HIS CONGREGATION WANT TO HELP AND HOPE THE COMMUNITY WILL JOIN THEM. SO EVEN THOUGH WE’RE A VERY SMALL CONGREGATION, WE CAN DO A LITTLE BIT TO HELP. SO WE’RE STARTING A FUNDRAISER ...