Megachurch Puts on Elaborate ‘Jurassic Park’ Church Service, Including Feeding Cow to Dinosaurs

LCBC (Lives Changed By Christ) is a non-denominational multisite megachurch with twenty locations spread across Pennsylvania. Founded in 1986 and led by senior pastor Jason Mitchell, in 2023 they had an average weekly in-person attendance of 14,044, with another 7354 watching online. They had 12,267 first-time guests, baptized 640 people, sponsored 934 children overseas, and gave $41,115,218 in tithes and offerings.

They regularly have ‘At the Movies’ sermon series over the summer, where they show clips from popular movies and then exegete the script, though, unlike some churches that play only a trailer or describe the film, LCBC plays practically half the movie, with their pastors offering pithy reflections after watching multiple 3-15 minute long clips.

In contrast with lower-budget churches, whose decorative efforts are middling and kind of sad, LCBC has gone out, spending a ton of money on what is an unusually high-end production.

Last year one of their locations transformed the church building into the Willy Wonka factory replete with a 16-foot ‘chocolate’ waterfall, all while heating a big cauldron of chocolate so that the entire church smells like the delectable confectionery.

They also put on a Jurassic Park themed service at the Manheim location, transforming the entire church using elaborate set pieces, large ‘dinosaurs’ walking around, and even a scene mimicking the original film where a cow is lowered for the dinosaurs to eat.

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