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Wanting to begin the new year with intention, the group simply circled a date (January 13, 2023) on the calendar and announced a worship night at their church. A month out, they only had a couple songs they really believed would make it and a third contender that needed major work. Unsure how many new offerings they’d be able to craft with the holidays fast approaching, they gathered with Chandler Moore, Brandon Lake, and Pat Barrett, longstanding friends of Elevation Worship to write the week of the recording. What came within days of the recording were the powerful anthems “Praise,” “Make A Way,” and “Been So Good,” which was heard by most of the team and rehearsed for the first time just hours before the night.
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“Over the last few years, Elevation Church has carved out its own space in the Christian Music industry,” says engineer and producer Jonathan Mix, head of the team at the new studio complex in Charlotte, NC. In the 10 years since releasing its debut studio album, Elevation Worship has topped Billboard’s Christian and Gospel charts on multiple occasions and has picked up armloads of Billboard Music and GMA Dove Awards. Elevation Worship was recently nominated for its first American Music Award, in the Favorite Inspirational Artist category.
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Songs solely meant for their church, like “Graves Into Gardens,” “RATTLE! ” “The Blessing,” “Do It Again” and “O Come to the Altar” have become anthems for congregations around the world. The career-defining release of 2021’s Old Church Basement, in partnership with Maverick City Music, broke streaming records and catapulted Elevation Worship into an entirely new stratosphere. To date, the collective has earned six GMA Dove Awards, two Billboard Music Awards (Top Christian Artist and Top Christian Song), and a GRAMMY Award.
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So Elevation decided to sign a 10-year lease on a building on IBM Boulevard and spend $4.9 million to turn the 38,000-square-foot site into Elevation worship space, complete with the church's now-ubiquitous orange inverted-V logo. For the past three and a half years, Elevation has been renting the University City YMCA for a Sunday morning service in the gym. But the church has outgrown that space, and wanted a building it could use all week. "Before multisites took hold, churches would have one master-planned campus," Travis said.
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Corbett said the church has already paid $3.8 million for the land – 22 acres off Lancaster Highway and U.S. 521, near the South Carolina line. The building will be equipped with the latest in digital technology, he said, and will become the church's new broadcast location. That means Furtick will usually preach from the stage there. Overall, the magazine also said, Elevation is the country's 15th largest Protestant church – and the youngest church on the "largest" list. Larry Brey, 44, who has been with Elevation since its founding, will be the campus pastor at University City. "We never dreamed of being what we've become," said Elevation Chief Financial Officer Chunks Corbett, who's been at the church since the beginning.
"Now it's about multiplying sites, expanding across the city and the region." Deliver hope and help meet the needs of people all around the world. But he said the church also tries to listen to God and to people excited about possibly having an Elevation site – or a permanent church building – nearby. Moving forward, Corbett said, there's not so much a master plan as a process of looking and listening. He and business leaders that are part of Elevation's expansion and finance team always want to know what properties are available. And Elevation is still focused on getting bigger and spreading the Gospel to more locales.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 308.6 square miles (799 km2), of which 306.6 square miles (794 km2) is land and 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2) is water. Charlotte is the twenty-sixth-most expansive city in the United States and lies at an elevation of 751 feet (229 m). Charlotte constitutes most of Mecklenburg County in the Carolina Piedmont. Uptown Charlotte sits atop a long rise between two creeks, Sugar Creek and Irwin Creek, and was built on the gunnies of the St. Catherine's and Rudisill gold mines. Charlotte is 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Concord, 26 miles (41 km) northeast of Rock Hill, South Carolina, 83 miles (144 km) southwest of Greensboro, 135 miles (217 km) west of Fayetteville, and 165 miles (265 km) southwest of Raleigh, the state capitol.
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We’re doing so much in-the-box, but I wanted to be able to use the mixing console’s faders to control Pro Tools and Logic,” he says, rather than opting for a control surface alternative. Previously, the church had been renting several rooms at another facility in Charlotte but had outgrown the space. I gave them details of the studio that I’d dreamed of, told them the gear we wanted to have and the gear we already had, and they put it all on paper and made sure it sounded good. We finished the studio in mid-September, which is when we started recording, and we’ve been going hard ever since,” Mix says. Elevation has also been expanding outside the Charlotte area, including services at a school near N.C. "We'd had a good base of (Raleigh-Durham) people … who had been watching us online and coming to Charlotte," Corbett said.
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Elevation Church is an Evangelical non-denominational multi-site megachurch based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Elevation has 20 locations.[1] Its senior pastors are Steven Furtick and Holly Furtick. Steven Furtick is a pastor, Grammy-award winning songwriter and producer, & New York Times best-selling author. As founder and lead pastor, he has helped grow the multi-site Elevation Church into a global ministry through online streaming, television, and the music of Elevation Worship. He holds a master of divinity degree from Southern Theological Seminary and is the author of Crash the Chatterbox, Greater, Sun Stand Still, (Un)Qualified, Seven-Mile Miracle.
See how God can use you to impact the lives of the people around you. Join us for worship and the sermon from this past weekend. Wherever Elevation ends up growing, Corbett said Charlotte will always be the church's hub. Elevation – launched by Furtick, wife Holly and seven families who left a Southern Baptist church in Shelby to start one in Charlotte – probably has another decade of steady growth, Travis said.
What experts have seen across the country suggest that, around age 10, which Elevation will hit next year, megachurches "begin to feel a little more corporate," Travis said, with more rules, processes and internal controls. Church professionals are often brought in, and church leadership becomes "not just family and friends," said Thumma. Elevation is governed not by a board of church members, but by Furtick and a group of four out-of-town pastors who lead their own megachurches. Some of them, including Perry Noble of 15-year-old NewSpring Church in Anderson, S.C., have been among Furtick's mentors.
The act’s most recent single, “Same God” — from Elevation Worship’s GRAMMY-nominated album, LION — crowned the top of the radio charts, further solidifying their longevity in the modern worship movement. Plus, like a lot of megachurches, Elevation tries to steer its regulars into small groups that meet and pray in homes. Each site has its own full-time campus pastor, its own live band, and a staff that works with children during the weekend services. And with Easter on the horizon, the evangelical megachurch led by Pastor Steven Furtick is about to open a University City campus that cost nearly $5 million to turn into worship space. It's just the latest piece of an ambitious expansion that involves spending big, building big and even carrying the Elevation franchise to another city, another state and another country. One of those songs was “Trust In God.” Written early on in the Fall of 2022, the track wasn’t feeling right as the recording approached.
"We always had a big vision to reach a lot of people for Jesus. But we didn't know what that meant." Were part of one of the fastest, most unorthodox paths to a release the collective has ever experienced. It’s a theme that permeates the entire live project starting with buoyant opening track “Jehovah,” which calls on the name of the Lord using His familiar Hebrew name. Further down the tracklisting, the moving “Make A Way,” spearheaded by Moore and Brandon Lake, ushers in an epic Red Sea moment. Elevation Church has over 20 locations across the Eastern United States and Canada.
