Every Nation Churches & Ministries
Every Nation Churches & Ministries belongs to the Charismatic and neo-charismatic networks family of churches.
Governance: network.
A church-planting and campus-ministry network founded in 1994 as Morning Star International and renamed Every Nation in 2004; US offices in the Nashville area, with congregations worldwide.
Not tracked by RCMS 2020. Figures are self-reported; no congregation count is stored.
A network that plants churches and campus ministries together on purpose — born in 1994 as Morning Star International, renamed for its goal: a church in every nation.
Heritage
Founded in 1994 as Morning Star International by Rice Broocks, Steve Murrell and Phil Bonasso, and renamed Every Nation in 2004. Its founding insight pairs two engines usually run separately: every church plant carries a campus ministry, and campus ministry feeds the church. Murrell's Victory church in Manila, begun from a 1984 student outreach, became the network's largest expression; US offices sit in the Nashville area, with congregations and campus works across the country and in dozens of nations.
Theological family
Evangelical and charismatic: historic Christian doctrine with expectation of the Spirit's gifts, a strong discipleship culture, and apologetics-friendly preaching (Broocks wrote "God's Not Dead").
Who decides what
A network of self-governing churches relating to national and international leadership teams for planting, campus strategy and ministerial credentialing; it does not describe itself as a denomination in the classic sense.
What a first-time visitor would find
Contemporary worship, practical expository preaching, and a visible pipeline of students and young adults; small-group discipleship carries the week.
What it has always cared about
Campus and congregation as one mission; discipleship so systematized it travels across cultures; planting internationally from multiple sending nations, not just America.
Its gift to the wider church
Every Nation proved the campus-plus-church pairing at scale — most visibly in Manila, where a student outreach became one of the largest church movements in Asia — and re-exported that model back to the US.
Commonly confused with
With Morning Star ministries of other lineages (the old name is long retired); and with parachurch campus ministries, which disciple students but do not plant churches around them.
Range of views inside it
Congregations vary widely by nation and city; the campus emphasis and discipleship system are network-wide.
A note from the mapmakers: Nothing here may be asserted of a specific congregation. RCMS 2020 does not track this network and its figures are self-reported, so this record carries no count. Sentences drawn from this record hedge as "Every Nation churches typically…" and yield to the congregation's own materials.
Sources: Every Nation Churches & Ministries — about (Every Nation) · WikiChurch: Making Discipleship Engaging, Empowering, and Viral (Steve Murrell, Charisma House)
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