In its latest annual report, Elevation Church revealed it received $108 million in offerings and tithes during 2023. About $11 million of that was from an annual year-end giving challenge at the megachurch, based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Elevation Church, founded and led by Steven Furtick, also reported that 21,429 people made decisions for Christ last year, and 4,003 people were baptized at its campuses.
According to the annual report, in-person attendance averaged more than 17,000 per week, up from 14,100 last year. In 2023, Elevation added permanent church campuses in Belmont, North Carolina, and Orlando, Florida—plus a second location in Toronto.
Elevation Church also reported impressive virtual participation in 2023, with more than 93 million total sermon streams across all platforms. According to the megachurch, it had 962,526 weekly TV viewers and more than half a million weekly podcast streams. More than 3.2 million people now subscribe to the church’s YouTube channel.
More than 7,400 volunteers serve in ministries at Elevation, and almost 21,500 people participate in the church’s eGroups.
Although the annual report doesn’t indicate how much revenue the church’s Elevation Worship Records generates, those songs were streamed 2.14 billion times in 2023. In a recent sermon, while mentioning the ministry’s new album “When Wind Meets Fire,” Furtick said, “Our partnership in the gospel enables us to take our ministry places we may never physically go, but the Word of God goes. And when God sends his Word, healing always follows.”
Elevation Church reports about $305 million in assets. The church hasn’t revealed the salary of Furtick, who’s known for wearing luxury clothing and who lives in a 16,000-square-foot house. The church’s 2023 annual report lists $32.96 million as being spent on “personnel.”
