Outreach Magazine Releases Top 100 Largest, Fastest-Growing Churches Report
According to Outreach magazine's fastest-growing list, of the 100 churches, 42 are classified as non-denominational, 20 are Southern Baptist, nine are Assemblies of God, and three are United Methodist. Regionally, nearly half (48) of those churches are located in the Southeast, while the Northeastern corridor, stretching from Maryland to Maine contains just seven of them. Florida is home to 14 of the fastest-growing churches, Texas runs a close second with 13, and Georgia has nine.
To gather and assemble the figures Outreach solicited relevant information from over 27,000 churches across the United States, going to extensive lengths to confirm the data related to weekend attendance averages and growth percentages.
As noted in the introduction of their summary analysis, the report "is not so much about numbers as it is the individuals those numbers represent — people who have found hope in Christ...