As some of you know, I just finished a book with my friend Scott Thumma entitled Beyond Megachurch Myths. (To be released in August. Order your copy now at Amazon.)
The book is a research based look at churches over 2000 across the country. Our stats show that the majority of megachurches are between 2000-3000 attenders. Only a small minority are over 10,000 regular attenders.
That being said, I will say that in the past month we have been getting lots of reports of churches peaking over 10,000 people for the first time. Many of these peaks are related to holiday services of course, but do give a glimpse of what may be coming. At this week's Multi Site Gathering at our Leadership Network offices, four or so surpassed 10,000 for the first time.
For most of the reports of those surpassing 10,000 for the first time, the bump was about a 25% over regular attendance. This conforms to other trends for one time attendance bumps. So, a church of 5000 may have seen perhaps 6500 for Easter weekend, and so on.
Anyway, I am interested in seeing reports from church leaders about their churches attendance bumps for Easter. If you have a report, send it my way. Or just lay it in the comments section.
dave.travis@leadnet.org
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