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“From megachurch to village church”

By Loyd Harp is the youth worker for the village and parish of Rudgwick in West Sussex 2017-01-19T00:00:00

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I never set out to work in a megachurch. As cliché as it might sound, it just happened. I was teaching at a private Christian school but also volunteered in the youth ministry, so when the youth pastor resigned, I already ‘had my foot in the door’. Lo and behold, this country boy who grew up in rural Oklahoma, attending a youth group of about 20 in a church of just over 100, was now youth pastor in the largest church in my Pentecostal denomination — a church of 9,000 members and a youth group of around 200.

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