Iosmar Alvarez

Growing Multicultural Churches Iosmar Alvarez

The purpose of this book was to identify the factors that impact growth in Multicultural Churches in the context of 21st Century America. The book utilized participant questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups. Data was collected over a period of six months. This book attempted to identify church growth factors within a research population comprising seven Hispanic United Methodist church plants in the Kentucky Annual Conference. This population contained churches with an average attendance above fifty and churches with an average attendance below fifty. The identification of such factors will help pastors and leaders to identify the best church planting practices for Multicultural church development in response to the rapidly changing, multicultural 21st Century American landscape. It also identifies the factors inhibiting the growth of Latino Latina churches conformed by many cultures in their congregations.