Real Life Ministries
REAL LIFE MINISTRIES is a non-denominational Evangelical Christian church in Post Falls, situated in Kootenai County, Idaho. The church was planted in 1998 by four families, including now senior pastor, Jim Putman. Since its founding, the church has grown to an average weekend attendance of over 7,000. It has been the fastest growing non-denominational Christian church in the United States over the past four years (2002-2006), experiencing growth of 247%. For the 2008 Easter weekend RLM had over 12,600 in the six Post Falls services. Spokane Valley Real Life had 1,600; Moscow had 700; Newport had 176; Silver Valley had 275; and Boise had almost 100 even though they don't have regular Sunday services. Over all, more than 15,000 people were in churches that did not even exist 9 years ago.