Church Raises Millions in Two Days

Kensington Community Church located in Detroit’s suburb of Troy has come up with $17 million in pledges from its 11,000 members in just two days. The megachurch has a full-time directors of development on staff to coordinate fundraising efforts. Kensington hired Greg Gibbs from Cargill Associates, a Texas-based church fundraising and consultant firm. Kensington’s budget is more than $10 million. The new funds will go toward construction of a new 72,000-square-foot church building.