The Evolution of Joel Osteen, Pastor of the Biggest Church in America

THE EVOLUTION OF JOEL OSTEEN Pastor to the biggest Church in America 50 megachurches in 1980 |880 evangelical megachurches in U.S. today EVERY ¶¶'L11' ' 2 WEEKS time it takes for a new megachurch to emerge in U.S. 4 4 25% percentage of white Evangelicals in America today #3- LARGEST MEGACHURCHES IN U.S. TODAY JOEL CHURCH NAME (PASTOR) MEMBERS Lakewood Church (Joel Osteen) 43,500 OSTEEN North Point Ministries (Andy Stanley) is PASTOR Willow Creek Community Church (Bill Hybels) 25,743 of the BIGGEST Church of the Highlands (Chris Hodges) 22,184· MEGA CHURCH 30,629 New Spring Church (Perry Noble) 23,055 in. Amërica S. Barrington, ILO. 1959 Southern Baptist minister JOHN OSTEEN, |(Joel's father) founded Lakewood Church in Alpharetta, GA Birmingham, ALO 00 Anderson, SC Houston, TX Houston with 80 people in abandoned feed store JOEL SCOTT OSTEEN 1997 Joel married VICTORIA They have 2 children born March 5, 1963 Osteen has become... over 7 MILLION WEEKLY VIEWERS IN Senior "Pastor" of OSTEEN'S TV MINISTRY Televangelist Best Selling Author Lakewood Church 1999 COMPAQ CENTER once home of NBA team, is now the Lakewood church over 8,000 members by the time John Osteen died 100 NATIONS 1999 Joel took over as pastor after his father passed away. Prior to this role he had preached only 2.5 MILLION copies sold of his 1st book "Your Best Life Now" broadcast his TV show SEATS 16,000 HISTORY OF JOEL Worked in production of the TV ministry of his father for 17 years once. Dropped out of College JOHN OSTEEN 2006 Listed among Barbara Walter's "10 most fascinating people" Takes no salary from Lakewood Church whose annual budget is $70 MILLION & Joel's book sales, etc. generate Named “Most Inspiring $55 MILLION Christian in the U.S." OSTEEN ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER NUMBER OF FANS 5,465,632 TALKING ABOUT 3,120,509 TWITTER FOLLOWERS 623,000 76% DISTRIBUTION OF FACEBOOK FANS 4,153,453 198,932 135,719 SOUTH AFRICA 125,570 PHILIPPINES 94,901 NIGERIA. 61,091 CANADA 60,510 INDIA 38,849 U.K. 35,662 INDONESIA 35,320 GHANA U.S. KENYA for Joel, money is the root of . .. BEING COOL Worth $56.5 MILLION but takes $0 salary His services net $43 MILLION a year $30 MILLION annual mail donations SO NO COLLECTIONS at services Owns 1 HOUSE (he's lived in for 13 years) Until recently, drove 9 YEAR OLD CAR owned by his father | Pays his own HOTEL BILLS has NO PRIVATE JET INTERESTING FACTS His first 5 books have all been #1 national bestsellers "Your Best Life Now" was on Bestsellers List for more than 200 weeks Has filled stadiums in U.S., U.K., N. Ireland, Canada, Israel, Africa & Australia Osteen's iTunes podcast has 10.5 million downloads each week # 3 #3 most popular TV evangelists (behind Billy Graham & Rick Warren) f In the past 8 years, over 2 million people have attended Osteen's “Night of Hope" Lakewood's grand opening was attended by Rick Perry & Nancy Pelosi President Obama hosted the Osteens at the White House ON THE HORIZON Fastest growing mega churches in U.S. (other than Osteen) CHURCH NAME (PASTOR) GROWTH BY % +49% Triumph Church (Solomon Kinloch Jr.) New Spring Church (Perry Noble) Legacy Church (Steve Smotherman) Celebration Church (Stovall Weems) +44% +49% +44% +50% Northview Church (Steve Poe) +7.072 Detroit, MI +3.800 +3.300 +3.396 +2.201 Albuquerque, NM Carmel, IN Anderson, SC GROWTH BY NUMBER Jacksonville, FL brought to you by WWw.onlinechristiancolleges.com SOURCES: http://www.prophecyfilm.com/joel-osteen/ http://www.sermoncentral.com/illustrations/statistics-about-joel-osteen.asp http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-pages/101306095226-joel-osteen-ministrie http://askville.amazon.com/money-televangelist-joel-osteen-make-year/AnswerViewer.do?requestld=13423293 http://www.richbutbroke.com/326/Joel-Osteen-Net-Worth http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/05/joel_osteen_harrisburg_bio.html http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2013/february/explosive-growth-of-us-megachurches-even-while-m any-say.html BEGINNINGS