MOVEMENT — USA/CANADA CHURCHES

MULTIPLYNAZ is not just a church planting or church revitalizing program. It is not just a district support system for planting and revitalizing or a team of coaches and mentors. It is not just a feedback system for on-going learning. is not just a series of books with action guides to aid church leaders. It is not just a series of websites. It is not just a College of Ministry. MULTIPLYNAZ first and foremost is a “way of thinking,” focused on changing local church culture and district culture. It is aimed to achieve movement, focused on fueling the Nazarene Movement and helping leaders and churches break out of the status quo. Everything we do is aimed at this key objective. We love the church; we are committed to a never-ending commitment to improvement and we want to fuel the Nazarene Movement everywhere we can.

Thank you for visiting this website which highlights our intermediate and large Nazarene churches. We invite you to become a Partner and join us on the exciting journey of “resourcing healthy, multiplying Nazarene churches and districts.” As of the last stats being gathered, there are 440 churches that averaged 200+ in worship attendance on the USA/Canada Region.  These churches are a tremendous resource for our movement and raising up new leaders to lead healthy churches.  For purposes of discussion, churches are organized into Small, Intermediate and Large categories, within the following 7 groups by number of worshippers:

Small Churches

2 - 99 We have 3,597 churches that averaged 2-99 worshippers.

100 - 199 We have 699 churches that averaged 100-199 worshippers.

Total: 4,296 churches

Intermediate Churches

200 - 249         We have 116 churches that averaged 200-249 worshippers.

250 - 499         We have 213 churches that averaged 250-499 worshippers.

Total: 329 churches

Large Churches

500 - 999         We have 79 churches that averaged 500-999 worshippers.

1,000-2,999     We have 32 churches that averaged 1,000-2,999 worshippers.

Total: 111 churches

3,000-15,000 We have 7 churches that averaged 3,000-15,000 worshippers.

This last category of large churches includes all six regions of the world. All of our Nazarene large churches that have 3,000+ worshippers are located outside the USA/Canada Region.

intermediate & Large Churches Are Unique

We deeply believe the number of large churches in the USA/Canada Region should multiply!  We need small churches, intermediate churches and large churches. It takes ALL kinds of churches to reach all kinds of people.  While every one of our 30,000+ Nazarene churches globally is indispensable to our movement, the leadership capacity challenges that come with leading an intermediate or large church are unique.  Intermediate and large churches never develop by accident, they are planned and led by skilled leaders who have become life-long learners in better understanding the processes involved in church development.   

Measuring Our intermediate & Large Church Progress

It is a good thing for us to hold ourselves accountable for the number of existing intermediate churches (200 - 499) and large churches (500+) in the USA/Canada Region.  It is important to know how many intermediate and large churches have been organized in recent years.  How many “first generation” churches do we have moving into an intermediate or large church category because our planting or church development initiatives?  We want to measure, be accountable for and have the number of intermediate and large churches in the USA/Canada Region increase in the months and years ahead!