NewSpring Church

NewSpring Church held its first service on January 16, 2000, at Anderson University in Anderson, South Carolina, with 115 people in the room. Founder Perry Noble built it into one of the fastest-growing churches in America before the church's leadership removed him in 2016. NewSpring then moved to a team-led model, with Brad Cooper among the lead pastors guiding the Baptist multisite church. It now operates more than a dozen locations across South Carolina and remains one of the state's largest congregations.

NewSpring reaches 193,778 combined followers across three platforms. Facebook is the largest at 99,000 followers. Instagram adds 68,478 followers on @newspring_church. YouTube sits at 26,300 subscribers, up 10.97 percent over the past year. The breadth score of 62.5 is the lowest in this stretch of the index, dragged down in part by YouTube inactivity: the channel's most recent video in the dataset published March 5, 2026, three months before the snapshot.

NewSpring is a velocity outlier with an asterisk. The 55.4 velocity score and double-digit YouTube growth show real audience momentum, and nearly 194,000 combined followers is a strong base for a church that survived a messy founder transition. But the three-month YouTube gap is the kind of detail this index is built to catch. Churches at this rank publish weekly. A channel growing 10.97 percent a year while sitting quiet is leaving subscribers on the table. If NewSpring restarts the cadence, the breadth score recovers and the rank moves with it. The audience is clearly still there. The output is the variable.