The name alone often results in images of rustic décor, pastors delivering sermons while seated on horses, worship services in open arenas, cowboys roping cattle and baptisms in cattle troughs. Though ...

MT. VERNON, Ill. - Wearing a white cowboy hat and preaching atop his horse Coby, Pastor Steve Hamson gives a modern-day meaning to "sermon on the mount." With a Bible in one hand and the reins of the ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — At high noon in the Stockyards Station, just after the longhorn cattle drive down Exchange Avenue and just before the gunfight show, a congregation comes to worship. Pastor George ...

On Father’s Day, nearly a thousand worshipers arrived at the Cowboy Church of Ellis County, the largest “cowboy church” in the world. After being greeted by four men perched on horses, they filed into ...

ABILENE — It doesn’t look anything like a church. The floor is dirt-covered with old tarps. Decorations include old cowboy boots, rope, saddles and wagon wheels. The New Trail Fellowship Church, ...

It's Sunday morning at the Cowboy Church of Santa Fe County, N.M. You know you're there because of the chuck wagon parked by the highway. You couldn't find a more nonreligious-looking building. The ...

A cold wind blew through the barn Sunday - over the horse stalls, across the crowd sitting in blue metal chairs with heads bowed and clear to the front. George McConathy closed his eyes, and gripped ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Despite the sweltering heat in the summer and freezing conditions in the winter, the fellowship grew. Over the years, two more cowboy churches were started by members of Circle J ...

FORT WORTH, Texas – At high noon in the Stockyards Station, just after the longhorn cattle drive down Exchange Avenue and just before the gunfight show, a congregation comes to worship. Pastor George ...

Fort Worth, Texas — At high noon in the Stockyards Station, just after the longhorn cattle drive down Exchange Avenue and just before the gunfight show, a congregation comes to worship. Pastor George ...