Megachurches Not All About Being Big
Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006
Posted: 11:26:57AM EST

Sunday worship services at First Baptist Church of Glenarden (FBCG) are seeing an overflow of attendants in its present facility in Landover, Md. Currently, 7,000 members constitute the congregation and the church is making way for more.

FBCG is breaking ground on an 83-acre plot of land in the Largo and Kettering community in Maryland for an entirely new facility both catering to the growing congregation and widening its doors to welcome newcomers. Five years in the making, the new church site includes a 4,000-seat worship center, educational, banquet and administrative support areas, a chapel, and more than 2,000 parking spaces.

"It's much needed," said FBCG Senior Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr. about the expansion.

A new breakthrough study released Friday revealed that all U.S.-based megachurches are not alike and are not solely defined by their enormity. The rest