Bell High School in Hurst, played college football at Vanderbilt and was a player and coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, had volunteered with Huddle Touch in the Tampa area.
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“Sports is how we did it,” Halliday said, explaining that he coached kids and the church sponsored teams and sports-oriented block parties.Īfter Halliday discussed sports ministry from the pulpit one Sunday at The Key, member Eric Vance told him about Huddle Touch, a Florida ministry founded by Pastor Jeffrey Singletary that had grown out of Singletary’s three decades of doing chaplain services for high school, college, and professional teams. “There would be 40-50 on the parking lot playing ball before you knew it.” The 15-person inner-city congregation grew to over 200. “I never had to look for kids,” Halliday said.
Halliday, a lifelong athlete, knew sports ministry makes effective outreach even before planting The Key nine years ago.Īmong the first things he did at his former church in the Stop Six neighborhood of southeast Fort Worth was to erect basketball goals on the parking lot.
The pastor and his church are ministering to local high school football teams, bringing a Florida sports ministry model to Texas.
Damon Halliday, pastor of The Key Church in Fort Worth, knows one key to reaching a community for Christ is with a court or a ball field. Expenses associated with Elevation Worship were less than $3-million. On the strength of these sales, Elevation Worship generated more than $6-million in revenue last year.
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At least eight of the albums have cracked the Billboard Top 200, and the most recent album – “Graves Into Gardens” – peaked at #34 on the Billboard all-genres chart and #1 on the Christian music chart. Recently, Elevation Worship has released albums on its own label. The earliest releases were independent, and later the band moved to the Essential /Provident record label. Started in 2007, Elevation Worship has released more than a dozen albums. Įlevation Worship is also a significant money-maker for the church. Expenses related to national media were about $1.97-million. According to the annual report, “The Church also broadcasts on various local stations in cities in which the Church has a physical location.” Revenue from national media activities was $2.6 7-million in 2019. Services from Elevation Church are broadcast on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) and The Hillsong Network. The church, through Steven Furtick Ministries, also has a significant media presence both throughout the United States and around the world. The church opened its 20 th location in January in Orlando. The church also has a location in Toronto, Canada. They included facilities in North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. Įlevation Church, whose pastor is Steven Furtick, has 19 physical locations as of Dec. The church spent about $8.3 -million, or about 10 percent of its donation income, on “ Outreach ” activities. The largest expense s for the church w ere personnel cost s ( $21.7-million ), and church ministries ($10.4).
The church’s balance sheet also showed more than $116-million in assets, most of that real estate. About $80.2-million came from offerings to the church, and about $11.2-million came from other sources, including the church’s music label Elevation Worship. The church took in a total of more than $91-million last year. That according to its recently released 2019 annual report. Elevation Church, a Charlotte, N.C., mega church that has become one of the largest in the country, had a cash surplus of more than $26-million for its year ending Dec.
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