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The Antioch Mission Baptist Church of Miami Gardens is a Baptist megachurch in the Carol City neighborhood of Miami Gardens, a suburb of Miami, Florida, USA that provides a blend of traditional and contemporary worship. The senior pastor is Arthur Jackson, III.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Antioch Missionary Baptist Church of Carol City )〕 In a 2008 survey, Outreach Magazine ranked the church 97th largest in the USA based on average weekly attendance of 7,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Top 100 Largest Churches )〕 ==History== The church dates back to 1957, when a group of Christians which at first including both Baptists and Methodists began holding services in a small house. The next year the group agreed to hold separate services for the two denominations, but continued to share the premises and to collaborate on fund-raising drives. The Baptist group was able to open their new church, which they had built themselves, in 1961. Pastors in the early years were the Reverends James A. Rudolph, Albert Essex and John C. Cherry, who was pastor from 1968 to 1985.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our History )〕 With a growing congregation, Cherry arranged to purchase two lots adjacent to the church. Construction of a larger building began in 1973 and was finally completed in 1985. The congregation continued to increase, and the church purchased three more lots on which the present building stands. The $2 million 2,000 seat sanctuary and administrative building was built in 1998, and seven years later all debts had been paid off. By 2010 membership had risen to 7,500.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antioch Mission Baptist Church of Miami Gardens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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