View a compilation of statistics on racial diversity in houses of worship; between 5 to 7.5 percent of churches are considered racially diverse.

Read a Jan. 16, 2012 Christian Post article about “Church Diversity Week” and the lack of diversity in most U.S. houses of worship.

Jacqui Lewis is senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church, a multicultural, Reformed Church in America congregation in New York City. Lewis has written that multiracial and multicultural congregations “help us to rehearse the Reign of God here on earth.”

The Rev. Anita Hendrix is pastor of Hunting Ridge Presbyterian Church, a multiethnic congregation in Baltimore affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Her congregation is about 60 percent Anglo, with others of African-American, Caribbean, Asian and African heritage.

Imam Muhammad Musri leads the Islamic Society of Central Florida, a mosque in Orlando whose members come from more than 30 countries. Located in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood, the mosque is seeing an increasing number of Latino converts and now offers a Spanish-language program for women.

Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Ga., a congregation that’s committed to diversity and whose membership is about half white and half black. Contact pastors Nibs (Gibson) Stroupe and Caroline Leach. Together they wrote O Lord, Hold Our Hands: How a Church Thrives in a Multicultural World, and Stroupe is a co-author of Where Once We Feared Enemies: Inclusive Membership, […]

Temple Israel of Greater Miami is a progressive, inner-city congregation and the oldest Reformed congregation in Miami – states on its website: “You want diversity? Some of our services are a tropical tzimmes of languages: English, Spanish, and Hebrew, with a little Yiddish, Ladino and Aramaic thrown in for good measure.” The congregation also is […]

Chapel Hill Bible Church in Chapel Hill, N.C. People from more than 40 countries worship at this nondenominational congregation, which grew in part through a ministry to international college students and which is intentionally building relationships with African-American and Latino communities in that region of North Carolina. Contact David Walters, media director.

Wilcrest Baptist Church in Houston started in 1972 in a mostly white neighborhood, watched the neighborhood around it change dramatically and then made a decision to try to become a multiracial church. Wilcrest’s vision statement proclaims the congregation to be “God’s multiethnic bridge that draws all people to Jesus Christ.” Jonathan Williams is senior pastor.