Talk:List of megachurches

message: * I'm planning to reorganize the US churches by region/state. If you think that's a bad idea, speak up. --Dystopos 06:25, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

message: I am quite certain that there are Canadian megachurches... ummm... for example 100 Huntley Street which is a megachurch and evangelical tv show out of Toronto.  I am learning to edit and don't want to f*&#! up the page... so if someone could put Canada in that would be nice...
* If you could point me at a source for information on Canadian megachurches I'd be happy to help add them to the list. 100 Huntley Street appears to be a talk-show rather than a church. --Dystopos 01:28, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada? 

message: I organized the South Atlantic list by state, then by city. (The previous formatting was haphazard, or possibly just overgrown.) Any objections to doing this to the rest, or suggestions about a better way to organize? LukeDouglas 15:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization within region 

message: There is no apparent standardization of how this list is to be formatted. I would like to suggest that it be formatted in this manner:
[Church Name] - [City, State] - [Senior Pastor/Minister] [External Web Link]
User:Mobyrock 16:55, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup List 

message: Greatest Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church - New Orleans - Bishop Paul S. Morton & Elder Debra B. Morton  <--- does this group idetify itself as a single congregation or an assciation or denomination ? When I read about them or on their own "aout us" link it isn't clear.  If they are an association not a single congregation this may not be the right list for them.
       After some further Research I was able to find a refernce to them as one congregation 
       on NOLA.com.M-BMor 03:20, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Church or association 

message: In Jakarta Indonesia I think you should include International English Service, an English speaking church of about 3000, belongs to Assemblies of God - Indonesia. Pastor Dave Kenney
http://www.iesjakarta.org
07:47, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  International English Service - Jakarta, Indonesia

message: * User:Arbustoo tagged this page for cleanup with the edit summary: "This needs serious clean up, criteria for a megachurch must be laid out and there must be sources to include these churches showing they meet criteria."
: The best reference for megachurch research is the Hartford Institute for Religious Research which gives the following as general characteristics for their study of megachurches:
::* 2000 or more persons in attendance at weekly worship
::* A charismatic, authoritative senior minister
::* A very active 7 day a week congregational community
::* A multitude of social and outreach ministries
::* and a complex differentiated organizational structure.
:Of these, the first should be fairly easy to verify, even if only though the Hartford Institute's reports. For the rest, I'd imagine they pretty well follow from the first and might only need to be referred to to eliminate very exceptional churches, such as a pilgrimage church with only a small regular congregation. --Dystopos 21:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree with you that it's a good criteria but I've noticed that the Hartford Institute lacks a good number of churches that are self reported and otherwise reported as mega-churches (2000ish+). On a lot of these churches websites you'll find links to news letters some have published numbers others don't. Some out and out state it in their web-site.  Anything I add I do solely if there is something out there credible stating the size of the attendance or something similar. But format and consistency needs to be adressed here as well.  I am sketchy about dropping a church from the list if I can't find a reason too, but others might.M-BMor 07:45, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * I was proposing that we adopt their criteria, not their list. --Dystopos 14:31, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * Agreed ;-) M-BMor 08:44, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: Note that following the result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of megachurches, this article redirects to Megachurch. The article's history is still available, if anyone wishes to use it in the course of work expanding the encyclopedia. Luna Santin 23:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirected to Megachurch