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Manchester Christian Church
Manchester Christian Church is a non-denominational megachurch located in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. The church has eight weekend services across three campuses with approximately 2,800 attendees.

History
Manchester Christian Church began in 1961 as a storefront mission on North Elm Street.

In the 70’s we occupied a small church building on Penacook Street. Believing God had something different in mind for us, the building was sold in 1979, and we purchased land on Wellington Road. Our Church met at Smyth Road School until 1985 when we erected a simple church building on our current Wellington site. The 250 seat sanctuary, which is now Stepping Stones Cafe, was completed in 1992.

The numerical growth of our congregation was accelerated in 1997 when we adopted the Purpose Driven Model of church health, and on Easter Sunday 2005 we were blessed to welcome our families, friends and guests into our new 650-seat worship auditorium.

After 30 years of leading MCC, Senior Pastor, Frank Reynolds retired in July of 2010.

In 2010, our Senior Pastor, Bo Chancey, asked us all to begin Praying for One. Each day we ask God to bring one person into our lives with whom we can share God’s love. As we have Prayed for One, our attendance has grown so much we added a fourth Sunday service.

In September of 2011, we celebrated our 50th year anniversary and turned a ballpark into a church. With nearly 4,000 people in attendance, we celebrated together as one church with one large worship service at the NH Fisher Cats' stadium.

Easter Sunday 2012, our worship service was held at the Verizon Wireless Arena. Over 5,600 people celebrated Jesus is Alive under one roof.

Multi-Site
Manchester Christian Church is a multi-site church with three campuses in the Greater Manchester Area:

 Wellington Road Campus located at 1308 Wellington Road, Manchester with Sunday services at 8, 9:30, 11am and 12:30pm Bedford Campus located at 56 Old Bedford Road, Bedford with Sunday services at 9:30 and 11am Downtown Campus located at 250 Commercial Street (in the Waumbec Mill building), Manchester with Sunday services at 9:30 and 11am 