The nondenominational congregation is made up of 10,000 born-again Christians, a multiracial gathering that talks about God with ease and passion and never fails to credit him for any good fortune.

He is a city alderman and the co-pastor of The Church in Mansfield, a nondenominational congregation.

Golden Bible Chapel, a nondenominational congregation, of which State Representative Bryan Hughes is an elder.

The International Community Church of Surrey, a nondenominational, international congregation, meets at Chertsey Hall each week.

Mr. Spada has worked with Ellington Wesleyan, and he recently began working with Southeast Christian Church, a nondenominational congregation of 24,000 members in Louisville, Ky.

Ultimately, despite a congregation vote urging him to stay, he left to found the City Church, a nondenominational congregation with services at the Society for Ethical Culture on Central Park West.

What used to be a small, informal gathering has become a large multiethnic, multiracial nondenominational congregation.

At home, he addresses the nondenominational congregation at the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, usually without notes in hand.

Although it follows the Lutheran confession and worship, the ILC is a nondenominational congregation that welcomes any Christian worshippers.

The nondenominational congregation had grown so far beyond the capacity of that building by 1996 that it had to schedule four Sunday services.