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>> 169 NAME CITY STATE AVG. ATTEND. DENOMINATION SMALL GROUPS? URBAN LOCATION METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA 1 Lakewood Church Houston TX 43500 PDE/NONDENOM Yes: “Life Groups” Commercial Cluster Houston 2 LifeChurch Edmond OK 26776 PDE/EC Yes: “Life Groups” Postsuburbia Oklahoma City 3 Fellowship Church Grapevine TX 24000 PDE/SBC Yes: “HomeTeams” Postsuburbia Dallas 4 Willow Creek Community Church South Barrington IL 23400 PDE/NONDENOM Yes: “Neighborhood Life” Postsuburbia Chicago 5 North Point Community Church Alpharetta GA 23377 PDE/NONDENOM Yes: “Community Groups” Postsuburbia Atlanta 6 Second Baptist Church Houston TX 22723 SBC No: Bible Study Suburbia Houston 7 Saddleback Valley Community Church Lake Forest CA 22418 PDE/SBC Yes: Small Groups Postsuburbia Los Angeles 8 West Angeles Church of God in Christ Los Angeles CA 20000 COGIC No: Bible Study Urban Los Angeles 9 Southeast Christian Church Louisville KY 17261 PDE/NONDENOM Yes” “Community groups” Postsuburbia Louisville 10 Fellowship of the Woodlands Conroe TX 17142 PDE/NONDENOM Yes: Small Groups Postsuburbia Houston 11 The Potter’s House Dallas TX 17000 PDE/NONDENOM No: Bible Study Postsuburbia Dallas 12 Hopewell Missionary Baptist Norcross GA 16000 BAPT No: Bible Study Old Industrial Suburb Atlanta 13 Phoenix First Assembly of God Phoenix AZ 16000 PDE/AG No: Bible Study Postsuburbia Phoenix 14 Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale FL 15921 PDE/CAL Yes” “Community groups” Postsuburbia South Florida 15 Central Christian Church Henderson NV 15081 PDE/NONDENOM Yes: Small Groups Postsuburbia Las Vegas 16 First Baptist Church Hammond IN 15059 IFB No: Bible Study Old Commercial Cluster Chicago 17 Harvest Christian Fellowship Riverside CA 15000 PDE/CAL Yes: Home Bible Studies Postsuburbia Los Angeles 18 World Changers Ministries College Park GA 15000 PDE/NONDENOM No: Bible Study Postsuburbia Atlanta 19 Prestonwood Baptist Church Plano TX 14975 SBC No: “Bible Fellowship Classes” Postsuburbia Dallas 20 New Light Christian Center Houston TX 13500 PDE/NONDENOM No Old Suburb Houston 21 Thomas Road Baptist Church Lynchburg VA 13100 SBC No: Bible Study Small city center Lynchburg 22 New Birth Missionary Baptist Lithonia GA 13000 BAPT No: Bible Study Postsuburbia Atlanta 23 Christian Life Centre - Christian Cultural Center Brooklyn NY 13000 PDE/NONDENOM No: Bible Study and Affinity Groups Urban New York 24 Calvary Chapel Albuquerque NM 13000 PDE/CAL Yes: “Home Fellowships ” Old industrial Suburb Albuquerque 25 Community Bible Church San Antonio TX 12646 PDE/NONDENOM Yes: “Life Groups” Postsuburbia San Antonio 26 Palm Beach Gardens Christ Fellowship Palm Beach Gardens FL 12399 PDE/NONDENOM Yes: “Life Groups” Postsuburbia South Florida Largest 100 megachurches according to a continuously updated database managed by Scott Thumma at the Hartford Center for Religion Research. The average weekly attendance numbers are gathered from denomination reports, self-reporting by churches, and research visits. Churches that are primarily multicampus churches have been excluded. The database is available online at http://hirr. hartsem.edu/megachurch/database.html (last accessed on June 7, 2011). Small group data was gathered through Internet research and phone interviews. Urban location was determined qualitatively by determining relative proximity to an urban core and peripheral freeway interchanges, age of the church campus, and the surrounding built environment, and in some cases through phone interviews (to determine if the church served multiple urban nodes). Appendix A 170 > 171 NAME CITY STATE AVG. ATTEND. DENOMINATION SMALL GROUPS? URBAN LOCATION METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA 62 Church of the Resurrection Leawood KS 9607 UMC No: Bible Study Postsuburbia Kansas City 63 Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa Santa Ana CA 9500 PDE/CAL No: Bible Study Postsuburbia Los Angeles 64 Northridge Church Plymouth MI 9445 PDE/NONDENOM Yes: Small Groups Postsuburbia Detroit 65 Ben Hill United Methodist Atlanta GA 9414 UMC No Urban Atlanta 66 New Spring Community Church Anderson SC 9326 PDE/SBC Yes: Small Groups Postsuburbia Anderson 67 Victory Christian Center Tulsa OK 9255 PDE/NONDENOM Yes: Victory Cells Postsuburbia Tulsa 68 Bethel Baptist Institut’l Church Jacksonville FL 9250 BAPT No Urban Jacksonville 69 New York City Church of Christ Englewood Cliffs NJ 9213 COC No Urban New York 70 Southland Christian Church Nicholasville KY 9148 PDE/NONDENOM Yes: “Life Groups” Postsuburbia Lexington 71 Glide Memorial United Methodist San Francisco CA 9016 UMC No Urban San Francisco 72 Detroit World Outreach Center Redford MI 9000 AG No Urban Detroit 73 Family Christian Center Munster IN 9000 PDE/NONDENOM Yes: Cell Groups Postsuburbia Chicago 74 Mount Zion Baptist Church Whites Creek TN 9000 BAPT No: Programs Postsuburbia Nashville 75 New Birth Baptist Church Miami FL 9000 BAPT No: Bible Study Urban South Florida 76 Shepherd...

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