megachurch

noun

mega·church ˈme-gə-ˌchərch

plural megachurches

: a church having an extremely large congregation

The megachurch, one of the largest in the region with roughly 5,000 attendees at its Sunday morning Post Falls worship service, is also adding a 25,000-square-foot children's ministry building, which will include a large indoor play structure …—

Nicholas Deshais

In little more than a decade, his ministry has grown from a living-room Bible study to a megachurch that draws about 7,600 visitors to seven campuses around Seattle each Sunday …—

Molly Worthen

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In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this Sunday, at the Life Center megachurch, hundreds of people filed in for a 9 am service. —

David Gilbert, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024 Goff was a youth volunteer at Beltway Park Church, a large baptist megachurch in Abilene in north central Texas with two campuses in the city and a congregation of nearly 5,000 people every week. —

Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024 In the main building, the interior is massive, yet hollow and bland, resembling a megachurch. —

Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024 Max Lucado, a charismatic evangelical author and San Antonio pastor, and Joakim Lundqvist, a leader of an megachurch in Sweden, will share the responsibilities, the church told its congregations Sunday. —

James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for megachurch