Trends · data through August 2026

Christian Place of Worships in the United States

Iceflower tracks 1,831 stores from 1,461 christian place of worships chains in the United States. Lighthouse Church grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Journey Church and Good Hope.

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
1,461
Tracked stores
1,831
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked christian place of worships 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. Lighthouse Church and Journey Church sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lighthouse Church ▲2 +19.1%
2 J Journey Church ▲7 +18.1%
3 G Good Hope ▲6 +13.0%
4 C Crossroad Baptist Church ▲3 +11.5%
5 C Celebration Church logo Celebration Church ▲5 +9.5%
6 C Cornerstone Church ▲1 +2.0%
7 T The Chapel - +0.8%
8 F Friendship House ▲2 -0.8%
9 L Life Church logo Life Church ▲3 -1.8%
10 C Crossroads Church ▲1 -4.3%
11 F First Baptist Church ▲1 -4.4%
12 D Destination Church - -4.6%
13 C Christ Church - -7.4%
14 O ONE North - -7.7%
15 C Cross Church ▲1 -8.2%
  • ONE North
  • Wild horse pass
  • Crossroad Baptist Church
  • Crossroads Baptist Church
  • City of Grace
  • St. Simeon Serbian Orthodox Church
  • Jesus Is Lord Church-Virginia Beach
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,831 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • ONE North (4)
  • Wild horse pass (1)
  • Crossroad Baptist Church (3)
  • Crossroads Baptist Church (21)
  • City of Grace (6)
  • St. Simeon Serbian Orthodox Church (1)
  • Jesus Is Lord Church-Virginia Beach (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Crossroads Baptist Church 21
  • 2 I Iglesia Universal 17
  • 3 T The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints logo The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 10
  • 4 T The Bridge 10
  • 5 C Crossroads Church 10
  • 6 F First Baptist Church 9
  • 7 G Grace Church 9
  • 8 J Journey Church 8
  • 9 C Calvary Church 8
  • 10 A Awaken Church logo Awaken Church 7
  • 11 H Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church 7
  • 12 C City of Refuge 6
  • 13 N New Life Church 6
  • 14 T The Rock Church 6
  • 15 C City of Grace 6
  • 16 C Community Church 6
  • 17 L Lighthouse Church 5
  • 18 T The Bridge Church 5
  • 19 C Cornerstone Church 5
  • 20 C Celebration Church logo Celebration Church 5
  • 21 C Christ Church 5
  • 22 C Cross Church 5
  • 23 D Discovery Church 5
  • 24 L LifePoint Church logo LifePoint Church 5
  • 25 H Harvest Church 4
  • 26 C Crossroads Christian Church 4
  • 27 F Freedom Church 4
  • 28 O ONE North 4
  • 29 L Liberty Church 4
  • 30 V Victory Church 3
  • 31 S Summit Church 3
  • 32 T The Life Church logo The Life Church 3
  • 33 S Sunrise Church logo Sunrise Church 3
  • 34 F Friendship House 3
  • 35 S Sagebrush Church logo Sagebrush Church 3
  • 36 C Covenant Church 3
  • 37 K Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses logo Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses 3
  • 38 T The Chapel 3
  • 39 R Radiant Church logo Radiant Church 3
  • 40 L Legacy Church logo Legacy Church 3
  • 41 D Destination Church 3
  • 42 L Life Church logo Life Church 3
  • 43 C Central Church 3
  • 44 G Good Hope 3
  • 45 C Crossroad Baptist Church 3
  • 46 T Transformation Church 3
  • 47 A Action Church 2
  • 48 T The Crossing 2
  • 49 G Grace Covenant Church 2
  • 50 B Bayside Community Church 2

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