Recommendable! Today is Sunday! The business of opening new churches!
Why not opening a new church in a shopping mall with unleased spaces!
The article even features an interview with a couple by the name of Dimanche (French for Sunday): "... Tarra Dimanche started attending the East St. Petersburg location nearly two years ago. She was a lifelong member of an African Methodist Episcopal church and said she felt she wasn’t growing spiritually.
Dimanche and her husband, Damas Dimanche, said they felt welcome when they visited Radiant. ..."
"... ARC functions as a startup accelerator, providing money and mentoring in exchange for a continuing cut of church revenues that it invests in opening new churches.
Similar entrepreneurial networks are sprouting new, largely nondenominational places of worship at a time when many traditional church congregations are shrinking. The new churches are opening across the U.S., from urban centers to suburbs, red states and blue, as well as abroad. The “church-planting” networks, established as nonprofit organizations, deploy marketing, branding and social-media strategies akin to other franchise businesses. ...
ARC has started 1,114 churches in the U.S. and abroad since 2001, including 40 last year. Average attendance on launch day was about 500 people in the first quarter this year, the organization said. Another church-startup network, Acts 29, currently has 644 churches, mostly in the U.S., as well as in Italy, Mexico and Thailand. ..."
ARC has started 1,114 churches in the U.S. and abroad since 2001, including 40 last year. Average attendance on launch day was about 500 people in the first quarter this year, the organization said. Another church-startup network, Acts 29, currently has 644 churches, mostly in the U.S., as well as in Italy, Mexico and Thailand. ..."
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