Elevation Church
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Elevation Ballantyne
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| Location | Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Country | United States |
| Denomination | Southern Baptist Convention |
| Weekly attendance | 25,000 (2016) |
| Website | elevationchurch |
| History | |
| Founded | February 2006 |
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| Division | Baptist State Convention of North Carolina |
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| Senior pastor(s) | Steven Furtick |
| Pastor(s) | Jonathan Josephs (Campus Pastor, Ballantyne) Larry Hubatka (Creative Pastor) Wade Joye (Worship Pastor) Joel Delph (Campus Pastor, Blakeney) Brad Hurn (Campus Pastor, Matthews) Joshua Blackson (Operations Pastor) Tim Fara (Campus Pastor, Rock Hill) Larry Brey (Campus Pastor, University City) Terry Bruce (Campus Pastor, Uptown) Ken Hester (Campus Pastor, Gaston) Preston Stack (Campus Pastor, RDU) Dustin Stradley (Campus Pastor, Roanoke Downtown) Jeff Bates (Campus Pastor, Concord) Matthew Drew (Campus Pastor, Lake Norman) |
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| Music group(s) | Elevation Worship |
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Elevation Church is a multi-site church pastored by Steven Furtick, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Elevation currently has 14 locations, with 9 in the Charlotte area, as well as locations in Raleigh, NC; Roanoke, VA; Melbourne, FL; and the Greater Toronto Area. From 2007 through 2010, Elevation was consistently cited by Outreach Magazine as one of the Top 100 fastest growing churches in the United States. It has been described as "a pop culture-friendly church with an orthodox Christian message".
The church began as a church plant of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. As part of a church planting team, Furtick and seven other families from Christ Covenant Church in Shelby, North Carolina, relocated to Matthews, meeting in Providence High School. Over its short history, it has experienced notable growth. On February 5, 2006, the first Sunday worship service, 121 people attended. Since then, the church's regular attendance has grown to over 25,000, currently meeting in 14 different locations.
At the beginning of 2012, Elevation Church hosted a 12-day "Holy Ghost, Old-School Revival" called 'Code Orange Revival' to kick off the year. Guest preachers included LifeChurch.tv founder Craig Groeschel, Jentezen Franklin of Free Chapel, Matt Chandler of The Village Church, Christine Caine of the A21 Campaign, Ed Young Jr. of Fellowship Church, Kevin Gerald of Champion's Centre, Stovall Weems of Celebration Church, Perry Noble of NewSpring Church, T. D. Jakes of The Potter’s House, James MacDonald of Harvest Bible Chapel, and a special night of worship with Grammy award winner and worship leader of Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church, Israel Houghton.
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