Prestonwood Baptist Church
Texas
This church has its own football stadium, a baseball field, a fitness center, a café, a library and a bookstore, all on one campus.
The Plano campus runs to a hundred and forty acres. On it sits a worship center with seven thousand seats. There is also a school running from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, and the school comes with a football stadium, a baseball field, and a fieldhouse for basketball and volleyball. Add a fitness center with outdoor sports fields, a café, a library and a bookstore. Membership passed forty-six thousand in twenty nineteen. About seventeen thousand people show up in a typical week. In twenty eighteen, CBS News counted it as the twenty-sixth largest megachurch in the country. Rising over the middle of it is a hundred-foot tower topped with a cross, finished in two thousand three and named the Faith Tower.
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The Plano campus covers an area of 140 acres (0.219 sq mi; 0.567 km2), and includes a 7,000-seat worship center, a school offering pre-kindergarten through grade 12 (including a football stadium, a baseball field, and a fieldhouse for basketball and volleyball), a fitness center with outdoor sports fields, a café, a library, and a bookstore.
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