Church Profiles

Evangel Church: Never Stop Serving

Last year, Evangel started a church two hours away inside the largest women’s prison in New York. A pastor and a team go every Thursday to share a message, preach and lead worship for the prisoners.

Hills Church: New Name, Same Mission

Hills Church has grown, in part, due to Marksman—a strategy for men focused on reaching and discipling other men that includes a 6-week Bible study boot camp.

Bethlehem Church: What You Celebrate, You Replicate

The power of storytelling is used throughout the year to proclaim God’s goodness to the congregation, and it seems to be affecting church growth positively.

Church of the Highlands: No. 5 Fastest-Growing Church, 2016

“Success for us is when people move from where they are to the place God intends for them to be.”

The Life Church: No. 6 Fastest-Growing Church, 2016

"We now have more people receive Christ in one weekend than we did in an entire year four years ago."

Citylife Church: No. 7 Fastest-Growing Church, 2016

Citylife’s mission is to become smaller as they grow larger, to be a place where people count and every life matters.

NewSpring Church: No. 8 Fastest-Growing Church, 2016

For years now, NewSpring Church has been known as a place where where life change takes place.

Rockford First: No. 9 Fastest-Growing Church, 2016

From the moment you drive onto Rockford First's campus, there is a very real sense of genuine love and care for people.

2|42 Community Church: No. 10 Fastest-Growing Church, 2016

“2|42 has a healthy and externally focused culture. We’re not seeker sensitive; we are seeker obsessed."

Tapping Into Joy: BridgePoint Church

No. 13 Fastest-Growing: BridgePoint Church in Florida Seeks out the Unchurched and Dechurched

Persuading Through Love: Park Valley Church

No. 22 Fastest-Growing: Love Is the Formula for Growth at Park Valley Church in Virginia