CHURCH GROWTH IN NIGERIA
My friend Bill Cowley told me about a congregation he knew during his mission work in Nigeria. It had been “Mother Church” to more than 30 others! “The church was a busy church, a city church, a church that we had opportunity to visit on different occasions. We never went to the church except that it was absolutely packed. It didn’t matter whether it was a morning service or an evening service, every pew was filled and the aisles and platform were filled with little children. We never went to visit that church, but that they were in a building program.” “They could never keep ahead of their own crowd. There were always ladders and paint buckets and loose bricks lying around. This church was always crowded, always in a building program. It led all other Nigerian churches in mission giving outside its own walls, and never did I hear them say, ‘We won’t be giving much to missions this…
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