British evangelical congregations thrive
By Thomas Wagner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 21, 2007

CAMBRIDGE, England -- It's Sunday in England, and across the country many traditional stone churches are struggling to fill their pews.

But not C3, the Cambridge Community Church, one of the country's many evangelical groups. Its mostly white, middle-class congregants sit in a rented school auditorium with their arms outstretched to the heavens and their hands fervently clapping to evangelical sermons.

"I don't need an old church with stained-glass windows where a few people show up out of obligation, not inspiration," said Ruth Chandler, a former member of the Church of England. the rest