Life.Church (pronounced "Life Church", formerly known as LifeChurch.tv, Life Covenant Church, and Life Church) is an American
evangelical
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide Interdenominationalism, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "bor ...
multi-site church based in
Edmond
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* Edmond Canaple (1797–1876), French politician
* Edmond Chehade (born 1993), Lebanese footballer
* Edmond Conn (1914–1998), American farmer, businessman, and politician
...
, Oklahoma.
Craig Groeschel
Craig Groeschel (born December 2, 1967) is the founder and senior pastor of Life.Church, an American evangelical multi-site church with locations in 12 U.S. states.
Early life and education
Groeschel grew up in southern Oklahoma, attending Ar ...
is the founder and senior pastor of Life.Church. Weekly
church attendance was 85,000 people in 2018. The church is known for its
YouVersion
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ministry, which publishes the Bible App.
History
In January 1996, Life.Church was founded as Life Covenant Church in
Oklahoma City with 40 congregants meeting together in a two-car garage. The church membership grew rapidly, and Life.Church built its first facility (now known as the "Oklahoma City Campus") in 1999.
In 2001, MetroChurch, a 25-year-old,
nondenominational church in nearby
Edmond, Oklahoma merged with Life.Church, effectively making it a
multi-site church. With this merger, they changed their name, combining Life Covenant Church with MetroChurch to arrive at the name "LifeChurch".
Following the multi-site services, the church launched campuses in
Tulsa and
Stillwater, Oklahoma in 2003, with these new campuses incorporating
satellite video teaching into their services.
Life.Church opened an additional campus in Oklahoma City, the South Oklahoma City Campus, in Spring 2005.
In February 2006, Life.Church introduced a campus in
Fort Worth, Texas, its first location outside Oklahoma. In April 2006, the church established its "Internet Campus" which broadcasts weekly, interactive worship services live over the internet.
On Easter Sunday, 2007, Life.Church began broadcasting from their new campus in the online game
Second Life. Also in 2007, Life.Church opened campuses in northwest Oklahoma City, another in Wellington, Florida in 2012 and in Albany, New York in 2016.
In 2012, the church had more than 26,000 members.
In 2015, the church had 15 campuses in different American states.
In 2018, the church would have 85,000 people and had opened 30
campuses
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in different cities.
Beliefs
The Church has an
evangelical confession of faith and is a member of the
Evangelical Covenant Church.
[ Life.Church]
Our beliefs
life.church, USA, retrieved August 8, 2020
See also
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List of the largest evangelical churches
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List of the largest evangelical church auditoriums
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Worship service (evangelicalism)
References
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External links
Official website
Religious mass media in the United States
Religious television stations in the United States
Evangelical megachurches in the United States
Christian organizations established in 1996
Edmond, Oklahoma
Non-denominational Evangelical multisite churches