Church United’s pastor membership grew from six to about five hundred in four years.

Evidence

Church United started with six affiliated pastors in 2014. In 2015 it counted twenty-seven affiliated pastors. By 2018 the number had grown to approximately five hundred pastor members, all organized into “pastor clusters,” each with a leader who answers to a central committee. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 353

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete growth data that evidences ch4’s bottom-up strategy claims and the counterweight to elite-capture claims. — connects to: Church United’s pastor-cluster model aims at replication across all fifty states. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 356