Good news for small churches
Christian Schwarze and Christoph Schalk (Operation
Why are small churches 16 times as effective as large churches - these are the surprising results of a worldwide church growth study.
In 1995, the German church growth researchers Christoph Schalk and Christian A. Schwarz of the Ecumenical Church Institute (Emmelsbull bei Niebull, Germany), completed the first phase of what they call the largest church growth research project in history.