Pastors grow congregations via satellite broadcast of worship

[/i] It’s just before 11:30 on a Sunday morning, and at a nondescript strip mall on Main Street in Hendersonville it’s about time for church.

In the parking lot, volunteers welcome latecomers with cups of free coffee. Inside a converted office suite turned worship space, a countdown clock on a video screen reaches zero, and the band breaks into song.

Within seconds, the Rev. Craig Groeshel appears on a video screen, beaming his satellite message to the crowd, because he is almost 500 miles away in Oklahoma.

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