“We pray that when you depart this place on Sunday, you will have experienced encouragement just as you have encouraged someone else,” IMB’s Laura Harrell said during the March 20–23 event.
Let’s learn from the mistakes of those who admonish us through their pain. You and I do not have to be another spiritual casualty in the kingdom of God if we will heed the warnings of those whose mistakes instruct us.
Men have outpaced women in church attendance the past three years, reversing a longstanding trend of more women in the pews that narrowed in 2016, Barna said in its 2025 State of the Church release, created in partnership with Gloo.
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