City Church Fort Wayne

City Church launched in November 2016 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, planted by lead pastor Chris Freeman, who returned to the city to start it. The church belongs to the Fellowship of Evangelical Churches and grew from around 200 people to roughly 2,400, earning recognition as the second fastest growing church in the nation. After seven and a half years as a portable church, City Church moved into a permanent home in 2024, a renovated 60,000-square-foot former grocery store on the southeast side of Fort Wayne.

City Church's combined audience is 16,453 followers, the smallest total in this group, spread across three platforms. Facebook leads at 7,000 followers. YouTube holds 5,130 subscribers and grew 49.56 percent over the past year, with an upload on June 10, 2026. Instagram sits at 4,323 followers on @citychurchfw. TikTok is absent.

The numbers are small and the trajectory is steep. City Church's reach score of 4.8 is the lowest of any church ranked 91 through 100, but its velocity score of 76.3 is among the highest in the index. A YouTube channel growing 50 percent a year, posting the day before this data was pulled, tells you the church treats digital as a weekly discipline, not an afterthought. The in-person growth already proved the model. The online audience is simply catching up.