2008 America’s Most Innovative Churches "Do Church" with "collective imagination" and "enlarge" your "view" of "evangelism". It all began with an online survey, they tell us! That is how they "solicited nominations". They tell us, We hoped to learn about the churches that you perceive as innovative and to uncover the diverse congregations that are doing ministry outside the norm . Your input resulted in 127 different nominations, including ministries like Granite State Baptist Church in Salem, N.H. ( gsbc.net ), Detroit World Outreach in Redford, Mich. ( dwo.org ) and The Village Church in Highland Village, Texas ( thevillagechurch.net ). After collecting all of those nominations, we convened a panel of 12 people from inside and outside church ministry to select this year’s list of innovative churches. They "instructed the panel" "to consider the churches that were nominated through the online survey" but there was one rule: "Pa...
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