Free Chapel

Free Chapel is a nondenominational megachurch in Gainesville, Georgia, founded in 1953. Jentezen Franklin became senior pastor in 1989, when the congregation numbered around 300, and built it into a multisite church with campuses across Georgia, plus locations in Spartanburg, South Carolina and Orange County, California. Franklin is a New York Times bestselling author whose Kingdom Connection broadcast and conference speaking have made him one of the most visible pastors in the country. The main campus moved into a 3,000-seat auditorium in 2004.

Free Chapel carries the largest audience in this stretch of the index by a wide margin: 917,929 combined followers across three platforms. YouTube anchors it at 506,000 subscribers. Facebook adds 277,838 followers and Instagram contributes 134,091. There is no TikTok presence. The reach score of 56 is the highest of any church ranked 71 through 80, and the half-million YouTube base puts Free Chapel in territory most churches never see.

The catch is momentum. Free Chapel's velocity score is 10.4, the lowest in this group, and YouTube grew just 1.61 percent over the past year. The channel's most recent upload in the dataset is May 12, 2026, a slower cadence than the weekly publishers around it. This is what a legacy audience looks like: enormous, loyal, and barely growing. Franklin's personal brand built one of the biggest church media audiences in America, and the numbers say it is now coasting on that base. At nearly a million followers, Free Chapel does not need growth to matter. But the index rewards movement, and right now the movement is elsewhere.