Greater Grace World Outreach

Greater Grace World Outreach
View of GGWO Sunday morning church service from the AV/IT/WEB studio.
Classification	Evangelical
Orientation	Nondenominational
Polity	mixed polity[1]
Leader	Thomas Schaller
Region	Worldwide
Founder	Carl H. Stevens Jr.
Origin	Successor to "The Bible Speaks" ministry prior to 1987, reformed as GGWO in 1987 Baltimore
Congregations	600
Ministers	1000

Greater Grace World Outreach (GGWO) is a nondenominational evangelical Christian church. The headquarters of Greater Grace World Outreach is currently located at its megachurch (locally named Greater Grace Church Baltimore) in Baltimore, Maryland, after they were forced to declare bankruptcy due to a $5.5 million dollar court case in which the founding pastor was determined to have manipulated and pressured a donor into secretly donating large sums of money. ^[2] The church has a weekly attendance of 1500+.^[3] GGWO was founded by Carl H. Stevens Jr. who was succeeded by Pastor Thomas Schaller as Presiding Elder and Overseeing Pastor of Greater Grace World Outreach in Baltimore in April 2005.^[4]

GGWO has 500 churches throughout the world.^[4] Most of these churches are located in North America, Europe and Africa, with larger congregations in Hungary, Azerbaijan^[5] and Ghana. Most of the “pastors” attended the unaccredited affiliated Maryland Bible College & Seminary in Baltimore, however there are many other affiliated Bible colleges around the world. The offerings of Greater Grace also include the radio program Grace Hour, Greater Grace Christian Academy, Christian Sports Clubs, along with other internal methods of luring people into their community.