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Life.Church. Life.Church (pronounced "Life Church", formerly known as LifeChurch.tv, Life Covenant Church, and Life Church) is an evangelical Christian multi-site megachurch based in Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church. Craig Groeschel is the founder and senior pastor of Life.Church.
In 1996, Groeschel and a handful of people started Life Covenant Church in a two-car garage. He later told Business Week that he started the process by performing market research of non-churchgoers and designed his church in response to what he learned about people's preconceptions about boring church experiences. [3]
The Universal Life Church was founded by Kirby J. Hensley, "a self-educated Baptist minister who was deeply influenced by his reading in world religion". [4] Religious scholar James R. Lewis wrote that Hensley "began to conceive of a church that would, on the one hand, offer complete freedom of religion, and could, on the other hand, bring all people of all religions together, instead of ...
Bobby Gruenewald. Bobby Gruenewald (born July 31, 1976) is the Pastor and Innovation Leader at Life.Church, a multisite church based in Oklahoma. [1][2] He is also the founder of the YouVersion Bible App [1] and a former entrepreneur, making and selling two multi-million dollar online companies.
LIFE Church has its roots in the Charismatic Restoration movement of Arthur Wallis.It was founded in 1976 by Bryn Jones, one of the early Restoration/British New Church leaders, by an amalgamation of three small Bradford churches: a charismatic Brethren Assembly based at the Bolton Woods Gospel Hall; an independent charismatic church made up mostly of former Baptists who had been unable to ...
New Life Church was founded in 1984 by Ted Haggard. [1] The church started under his leadership as an independent church meeting in his home. From these origins, the church grew through a succession of larger meeting spaces including strip mall office space and other non-traditional church locations. The initial sanctuary on the campus, now ...
The legal status of the Universal Life Church encompasses a collection of court decisions and state executive branch pronouncements determining what rights the Universal Life Church (ULC) and comparable organizations have as religious organizations. With respect to the validity of ordinations for the purposes of those ordained performing ...
The Universal Life Church Monastery (ULCM) is a multi-religious interfaith ministry that has an online ordination program, which allows individuals to preside over weddings, baptisms, and funerals in the United States depending on state and county laws. [1][2] George Freeman is president of the Seattle, Washington –based ministry. [3][4] It ...