← The Non-Denominational Megachurch: the dossier
America's largest church, with about 85,000 a week across 46 campuses in 12 states (2025). His church also owns YouVersion, the Bible app with more than 585 million installs, which makes him the most technologically powerful pastor in the country.
Verified 10-07Leads the second-largest US church, in Birmingham, Alabama, with about 60,000 a week (2025 Outreach 100).
Verified 10-07Lakewood in Houston reports about 45,000 a week, fourth in the US (2025). Through television and books it is the best-known pulpit of the prosperity-tinged megachurch.
Verified 10-07North Point near Atlanta reports about 37,000 a week. Its network of partner churches makes Stanley one of the movement's main shapers of method.
Verified 10-07Leads CCV in Peoria, Arizona, third on the 2025 largest-church list with about 54,000 a week. Its Grand Canyon University ties make it a hub of Arizona evangelical life.
Verified 10-07Succeeded Rick Warren in 2022. Saddleback was expelled from the Southern Baptist Convention in 2023 for having women pastors, which pushed one of the country's best-known churches into the unaffiliated megachurch world. In 2025 he apologised for a pro-inauguration post.
Verified 10-07About 17,000 a week on 20 campuses (2025). Elevation Worship's music and his online sermons reach far beyond the building; it is the movement's biggest media engine.
Verified 10-07Leads Transformation Church in Tulsa. His sermon series and books (Relationship Goals) make him the youngest major broadcast pulpit in the movement.
Verified 10-07Named with his wife Tammie to lead Gateway in Southlake, Texas, nearly a year after Robert Morris resigned in 2024 amid child sexual abuse allegations. Gateway was the ninth-largest US church in 2023, with about 25,800 a week. This card shows what a scandal costs a giant.
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