Trends · data through September 2026

Christian Places of Worship in the United States

Iceflower tracks 13,150 stores from 9,135 Christian place of worship chains in the United States. Fellowship Church grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Heritage Church and Inspire Church.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
9,135
Tracked stores
13,150
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Christian place of worship chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Fellowship Church and Heritage Church sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Fellowship Church ▲9 +20.0%
2 H Heritage Church ▲10 +19.8%
3 I Inspire Church ▲16 +18.4%
4 R Real Life Church ▲19 +17.0%
5 T The Summit Church logo The Summit Church ▲1 +16.9%
6 F Friendship Baptist Church ▲15 +16.6%
7 G Gateway Church logo Gateway Church ▲17 +16.5%
8 F Faith Church ▲15 +16.3%
9 C Connect Church ▲17 +15.2%
10 T The District Church ▲3 +11.6%
11 R Restoration Church ▲14 +11.5%
12 G Grace Fellowship ▲4 +11.4%
13 A Abundant Life Church ▲15 +10.7%
14 P Providence Church ▲5 +8.5%
15 D Discovery Church ▲5 +7.5%
  • LifePoint Church
  • First Baptist Church
  • Discovery Church
  • Silverdale Baptist Church
  • Journey Church
  • Sandals Church
  • New Life Church
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

13,150 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • LifePoint Church (16)
  • First Baptist Church (125)
  • Discovery Church (8)
  • Silverdale Baptist Church (2)
  • Journey Church (31)
  • Sandals Church (1)
  • New Life Church (50)
  • Other tracked chains

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