Northland Church
In 1985, he moved to Northland Community Church in Orlando, Florida, that was looking for a senior pastor. He flew to Orlando to interview at Northland.
Northland Community Church had been started in 1972 by 11 people in the "north land" of Orlando. By 1985, the church had a weekly attendance of 200 people. Over the next two decades the church grew to an average weekly attendance of more than 10,000 people. Eventually transformed from a “community church” into to a “church distributed”, Northland has been consistently named among Outreach magazine's 100 Largest and Fastest-Growing U.S. Churches. Ministry Today magazine listed Northland's facilities as one of "The Seven Most Innovative Church Buildings in America."
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