Lakepointe Church

Lakepointe Church is a Southern Baptist multisite church headquartered in Rockwall, Texas, east of Dallas. It started in June 1979 when a handful of families began meeting in an abandoned bait shop on the shore of Lake Ray Hubbard. Today the church runs campuses across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including Mesquite, Firewheel, Forney, and North Dallas. Josh Howerton became senior pastor after a decade leading The Bridge Church in Nashville, and his preaching has become the church's defining digital asset.

Lakepointe's combined audience is 1.54 million followers, and YouTube is the engine. The church's single channel holds 1.02 million subscribers after growing 618.31 percent in the past year, the fastest YouTube growth of any church in the top ten by a wide margin. Instagram adds 310,560 followers on the verified lpconnect account, and Facebook contributes 212,263. The church has no TikTok presence in our data, which makes the YouTube number more striking. Howerton's preaching clips drive the growth, short cuts of sermon moments built for the feed.

Lakepointe is the fastest riser in this year's index, and the pillar scores show why. Its velocity score of 99.1 is nearly perfect, paired with a breadth score of 82.5 and a reach score of 62.6 that climbs every month. A year ago this was a regionally known Texas megachurch. A 618 percent YouTube surge later, it ranks third in the world. Lakepointe is the clearest proof in the 2026 index that one committed short-form clip strategy, executed relentlessly on a single platform, can change a church's national footprint in twelve months.