Woodlands Church

Woodlands Church is a Baptist megachurch in The Woodlands, Texas, north of Houston. Kerry Shook and his wife Chris founded it in October 1993 as Fellowship of The Woodlands, and it has since grown to multiple locations with weekly attendance topping 18,000. Shook is also a bestselling author and television preacher. He began broadcasting in 2005, and Kerry Shook Ministries now reaches all 50 states and more than 200 countries, which gives the church a media reflex most congregations its size never develop.

Woodlands Church counts 85,460 combined followers across three active platforms. The audience splits almost evenly: Facebook at 31,730, Instagram at 29,030 on the woodlands_church handle, and YouTube at 24,700 subscribers on the @WoodlandsChurchKerryShook channel. YouTube is the growth engine, up 14.88 percent over the past year, and the channel published as recently as June 9. There is no TikTok presence, which caps breadth at 82.5.

The number that matters here is velocity. Woodlands posts a 69.2 velocity score, one of the highest in this band of the index, driven by that near 15 percent YouTube growth. Its raw reach score of 25.8 is small for a church with 18,000 in weekly attendance, which means the digital audience badly trails the physical one. That gap is the opportunity. The TV-era distribution muscle is clearly transferring to YouTube, and the publishing cadence is current. If the church keeps converting broadcast viewers into subscribers, the online footprint should start catching up to the size of the rooms.