James River Church

James River Church is a Pentecostal multisite megachurch based in Ozark, Missouri, with additional campuses in Springfield and Joplin. Four couples founded the church in 1991, and John Lindell was hired as pastor that September. He has led it ever since alongside his wife Debbie. The church spent its history in the Assemblies of God and grew into one of the 100 largest churches in America, known for its worship ministry and large-scale conferences.

James River ranks 56th with an influence score of 57.6 and the largest audience in this entire stretch: 1,378,523 combined followers. YouTube dominates with 1,252,800 subscribers across two channels, 1.17 million on the main @JamesRiverChurch channel and 82,800 on @JamesRiverWorship. Facebook adds 88,000 and Instagram contributes 37,723. The church runs three of the four major platforms with no TikTok account. Its reach score of 61.2 is the highest in this group by a wide margin.

The concern is in the velocity column. James River's YouTube subscriber count slipped 0.85 percent over the past year, the only negative growth number in this group, producing a velocity score of 12.3. A church with 1.25 million subscribers that is shrinking ranks behind churches with 40,000 followers that are growing 30 percent a year. That is the index working as designed. James River built one of the biggest church YouTube audiences in the world, and that base alone keeps it in the top 60. But the flat line matters. The gap between its massive YouTube presence and its 37,723 Instagram followers also shows a ministry concentrated on one platform. Reigniting growth anywhere would move this church up fast.