Where the new churches land
Every generation plants churches, and each generation plants them somewhere different. This heat map weights each congregation toward the most recent plantings in a trailing twenty-five-year span, so hot spots show at whatever grain they actually cluster, down to a neighborhood, not just a division: the Austin division alone received 32 percent of the current span's 317 recorded plantings, and the rest landed across the other fourteen divisions. Scrub the years, or press play and watch the geography move.
Drawing the fifteen divisions
Each congregation is weighted toward the most recent plantings in a trailing 25-year window, so the map shows where planting concentrates today rather than a division-by-division share: founding year is recorded for 838 of 1,196 congregations, and only those count. The early decades are a floor twice over: a window holding fewer than 20 recorded plantings does not draw as a concentration, and the further back you read, the more of that era's planting has since closed and left no mark, so an early window describes the survivors' geography rather than the era's. Church data from the Society database as of 2026-10-10.
Which division did you expect to be brighter, and who is already there?
- Find the span your own congregation was planted in, and look at which divisions were being reached then and which were not. The prayer guides carry the places the map leaves light.
- If your church could plant or send, compare this map's latest span with the explorer's residents-per-church view, and write to us about the divisions where the two disagree.
- If a founding year is wrong or a congregation is missing, email info@missionatx.org. This site gets better when the people it describes correct it.