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This is a list of the largest megachurches in the United States with an attendance of more than 10,000 weekly, sometimes also termed a gigachurch. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to The Hartford Institute's database, approximately 50 churches had attendance ranging from 10,000 to 47,000 in 2010. [ 3 ]
This list of the largest evangelical megachurches contains evangelical Christian megachurches by weekly attendance. Large churches from other denominations, like Catholicism , are not included as they are not deemed to belong to the megachurch phenomenon which by definition is part of Protestantism .
Weece, a former missionary to Haiti, became the third senior pastor on September 1, 2003. Still in his twenties at the time, he was one of the youngest megachurch senior pastors in the United States. In 2009, Southland opened its first satellite campus in Danville, KY.
In November 2018, CBS News listed Eagle Brook Church as the 19th largest megachurch in the United States and the largest megachurch in Minnesota with about 17,091 weekly visitors. [7] In 2020, Jason Strand became the senior pastor. [8] According to a 2023 church census, it claimed a weekly attendance of 20,923 people. [9]
Elevation Church has a board of overseers that are composed of out-of-town pastors who advise Furtick and his staff on their ministry and decide Furtick's salary. [28] In 2012, former The Healing Place Church pastor Dino Rizzo joined the board, but resigned after one month. He would later join the Church of the Highlands. He would also become a ...
In 2010, Pastor Ed Young was criticized for his luxurious lifestyle, including the purchase of a Falcon 50 private jet, an annual housing allowance of $240,000 per year, and an annual salary of $1 million dollars. [10] [11]
Lakewood Church is a non-denominational evangelical Christian megachurch located in Houston, Texas.It is among the largest congregations in the United States, averaging about 45,000 attendees per week. [1]
Willow Creek Community Church is an Evangelical nondenominational multisite megachurch based in the northwestern Chicago suburb of South Barrington, Illinois.It was founded on October 12, 1975 by Dave Holmbo and Bill Hybels, who was its longtime senior pastor.