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A congregation of 500 is not a “megachurch”, >10,000 is.

• threatofrain 7y ago
  550 attending in a single session is pretty big, and the week before was double. Over 10,000 in a single sitting is a high bar to set.
  • true_religion 7y ago
    550 isn’t a lot. My elementary school had more than that many children in it. And we were a Catholic school, and thus all attended the same church with our parents boosting the numbers way higher than that. To put it lightly there are McDonalds restaurants with a higher capacity than 550.
  • ctdonath 7y ago
    Hence “MEGA church”. There are several in the Atlanta area. One is actually 12 campuses, seating ~2,500 each, typically with a live pastor at one being telecast to the others on life-size projections (effect of virtual presence is pretty convincing). Others hold thousands at one sitting with multiple services. 550 is “normal” in comparison.