Experts have said this lack of oversight by those who attend the church, and the transparency that usually comes with that, sets Elevation apart from other Southern Baptist churches and even other megachurches. But there are few signs that this has become an issue with most of those who attend Elevation. Elevation's congregation also appears to be more racially diverse than most Charlotte churches. At last count, in 2013, the self-described "Elevators" attending these services were giving the church an average of $484,000 a week.
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What experts have seen across the country suggest that, around age 10, which Elevation will hit next year, megachurches "begin to feel a little more corporate," Travis said, with more rules, processes and internal controls. Church professionals are often brought in, and church leadership becomes "not just family and friends," said Thumma. Elevation is governed not by a board of church members, but by Furtick and a group of four out-of-town pastors who lead their own megachurches. Some of them, including Perry Noble of 15-year-old NewSpring Church in Anderson, S.C., have been among Furtick's mentors.
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"Now it's about multiplying sites, expanding across the city and the region." Deliver hope and help meet the needs of people all around the world. But he said the church also tries to listen to God and to people excited about possibly having an Elevation site – or a permanent church building – nearby. Moving forward, Corbett said, there's not so much a master plan as a process of looking and listening. He and business leaders that are part of Elevation's expansion and finance team always want to know what properties are available. And Elevation is still focused on getting bigger and spreading the Gospel to more locales.
In Roanoke, Va., he said, a group of people watching Elevation videos grew large enough for the church to send some leaders to set up a site. "We now have a building (where) we can add multiple worship experiences," Brey said. "We can do them Saturday night, Sunday morning, Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday night." CHARLOTTE, NC (Tim Funk/The Charlotte Observer) - In nine years, Charlotte's Elevation Church has grown from the 121 worshippers at its first service to the more than 17,000 who now show up every weekend at its 13 locations. What would happen if we began to believe that God could do the miraculous through us? These are the questions GRAMMY® Award-winning collective Elevation Worship is asking on their latest live recording.
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Pastor Steven and Holly live in Charlotte, NC with their two sons, Elijah and Graham, and daughter, Abbey. At churches such as Elevation, Thumma said, the founding pastor's charisma and leadership authority are tied to his record of rapid success. "This often causes the church leadership to try to artificially manufacture the illusion of success." Scott Thumma, one of the country's leading experts on megachurches, said he and colleague Warren Bird have found in their last two national studies that "younger megas" such as Elevation "are growing faster and larger" than big churches did in previous decades. At Elevation, that means more than 75 percent of the worshippers now see Furtick's sermon on a screen, Corbett said. The 35-year-old pastor preaches most weekends from the stage of the church's Blakeney facility in south Charlotte.
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Wanting to begin the new year with intention, the group simply circled a date (January 13, 2023) on the calendar and announced a worship night at their church. A month out, they only had a couple songs they really believed would make it and a third contender that needed major work. Unsure how many new offerings they’d be able to craft with the holidays fast approaching, they gathered with Chandler Moore, Brandon Lake, and Pat Barrett, longstanding friends of Elevation Worship to write the week of the recording. What came within days of the recording were the powerful anthems “Praise,” “Make A Way,” and “Been So Good,” which was heard by most of the team and rehearsed for the first time just hours before the night.
We’re doing so much in-the-box, but I wanted to be able to use the mixing console’s faders to control Pro Tools and Logic,” he says, rather than opting for a control surface alternative. Previously, the church had been renting several rooms at another facility in Charlotte but had outgrown the space. I gave them details of the studio that I’d dreamed of, told them the gear we wanted to have and the gear we already had, and they put it all on paper and made sure it sounded good. We finished the studio in mid-September, which is when we started recording, and we’ve been going hard ever since,” Mix says. Elevation has also been expanding outside the Charlotte area, including services at a school near N.C. "We'd had a good base of (Raleigh-Durham) people … who had been watching us online and coming to Charlotte," Corbett said.
Like other Charlotte megachurches – including St. Matthew Catholic and Forest Hill – Elevation now has a Sunday presence in fast-growing Union County. Since January, it's been holding services at Weddington High School. Having previously worked on an SSL console, Mix soon narrowed down the choice of desk for the new studio. I love how versatile it is and love the hybrid workflow,” he says. SSL’s δelta-Control software layers DAW control and integration onto the console’s traditional analogue path and signal processing. “Utilizing the hybrid side is super fun and very intuitive.
Corbett said the church has already paid $3.8 million for the land – 22 acres off Lancaster Highway and U.S. 521, near the South Carolina line. The building will be equipped with the latest in digital technology, he said, and will become the church's new broadcast location. That means Furtick will usually preach from the stage there. Overall, the magazine also said, Elevation is the country's 15th largest Protestant church – and the youngest church on the "largest" list. Larry Brey, 44, who has been with Elevation since its founding, will be the campus pastor at University City. "We never dreamed of being what we've become," said Elevation Chief Financial Officer Chunks Corbett, who's been at the church since the beginning.
“Over the last few years, Elevation Church has carved out its own space in the Christian Music industry,” says engineer and producer Jonathan Mix, head of the team at the new studio complex in Charlotte, NC. In the 10 years since releasing its debut studio album, Elevation Worship has topped Billboard’s Christian and Gospel charts on multiple occasions and has picked up armloads of Billboard Music and GMA Dove Awards. Elevation Worship was recently nominated for its first American Music Award, in the Favorite Inspirational Artist category.
The act’s most recent single, “Same God” — from Elevation Worship’s GRAMMY-nominated album, LION — crowned the top of the radio charts, further solidifying their longevity in the modern worship movement. Plus, like a lot of megachurches, Elevation tries to steer its regulars into small groups that meet and pray in homes. Each site has its own full-time campus pastor, its own live band, and a staff that works with children during the weekend services. And with Easter on the horizon, the evangelical megachurch led by Pastor Steven Furtick is about to open a University City campus that cost nearly $5 million to turn into worship space. It's just the latest piece of an ambitious expansion that involves spending big, building big and even carrying the Elevation franchise to another city, another state and another country. One of those songs was “Trust In God.” Written early on in the Fall of 2022, the track wasn’t feeling right as the recording approached.
So Elevation decided to sign a 10-year lease on a building on IBM Boulevard and spend $4.9 million to turn the 38,000-square-foot site into Elevation worship space, complete with the church's now-ubiquitous orange inverted-V logo. For the past three and a half years, Elevation has been renting the University City YMCA for a Sunday morning service in the gym. But the church has outgrown that space, and wanted a building it could use all week. "Before multisites took hold, churches would have one master-planned campus," Travis said.
"We always had a big vision to reach a lot of people for Jesus. But we didn't know what that meant." Were part of one of the fastest, most unorthodox paths to a release the collective has ever experienced. It’s a theme that permeates the entire live project starting with buoyant opening track “Jehovah,” which calls on the name of the Lord using His familiar Hebrew name. Further down the tracklisting, the moving “Make A Way,” spearheaded by Moore and Brandon Lake, ushers in an epic Red Sea moment. Elevation Church has over 20 locations across the Eastern United States and Canada.
Furtick routinely declines interview requests from the Observer, which last talked to him in 2008. But Corbett, 37, agreed to speak about Elevation's growth. As chief financial officer, he's in charge of the building and spending at what Outreach magazine says is the 11th fastest-growing Protestant church in America. EFam is our online family at Elevation Church, where Pastor Steven Furtick serves as lead pastor in Charlotte, NC. No matter where you call home, being part of our eFam is as simple as joining us online each week. Join us as we reach more people with the gospel through the growth and expansion of our church.
