Monday, February 12, 2007

Megachurches Branching Out

WASHINGTON -- With 13,000 worshipers, a $93 million campus, and a multimillion-dollar budget, can McLean Bible Church, the Christian colossus in Tysons Corner, Va., possibly get any bigger?

Yes .

The evangelical megachurch, one of the country's largest and fastest growing, is launching an ambitious expansion. It plans to build a "spiritual beltway" around the region by opening nine satellite locations to bring tens of thousands more into its fold. Through televised broadcasts, congregants at each location would see and hear portions of the same service at the same time.

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