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Members of Kingdom Fellowship AME Church choir perform during church service, Sunday, June 2, 2024, in Calverton, Md. The suburban Maryland congregation, led by the Rev. Matthew L. Watley, has landed ...

It’s the fastest growing church in the U.S., according to Outreach Magazine. “We actually began as a 3,000-member church in 2019,” said the Rev. Matthew Watley, founder and senior pastor at the ...

The Rev. Matthew LAT Watley has led Kingdom Fellowship AME Church to become one of the fastest-growing churches in America, with a membership of nearly 8,000 and weekly attendance of 2,500.

CALVERTON, Md. — The Rev. Matthew L. Watley says it’s not happenstance his suburban Maryland congregation, part of the historically Black African Methodist Episcopal denomination, landed at the top of ...

CALVERTON, Md. (AP) — In 2019, the year Kingdom Fellowship AME was founded, the church had about 3,000 members and an average weekly attendance of about 1,800 people, according to the church's figures ...