This issue of GROW interviews pastors and district superintendents of growing ministries to discover what’s working for them in their best practices. The lead off article by Tom Nees features the top five districts for 2004 in the United States and Canada, selected by various arbitrary sizes. The statistics ranked these districts in each group by the percentage of churches showing growth in areas, including worship attendance, membership, new Nazarenes, Sunday School attendance, new church sponsorship and giving to denominational apportionments. A link is also provided for a more extended version of the interview.

Also, check out the 2004 listing of the Top 50 Nazarene churches adding new members by professions of faith and the ministry updates across the USA and Canada. Other stories this edition include Eastern Michigan District, Winston-Salem (NC), Wichita First Church (KS), Wichita First Family Church, Penny Road (NC), Flint Central (MI), Loveland Community (CO), North Raleigh (NC) and Canton First (OH).