Church Planting and Megapolitans

Megapolitan regions are bigger than metropolitan regions and they will change the way you live and how you plant churches.

A megapolitan is huge. Megapolitans combine at least two metropolitan areas. They are contiguous metropolitan and micropolitan areas. They have distinct regional cultural identities and histories. They are linked through major transportation infrastructure and form a functional urban network of goods and services. Here are the current 10 identifiable megapolitans in the US:

Northeast

Midwest

Gulf Coast

Piedmont

NorCal

Southland

Valley of the Sun

Cascadia

Peninsula

I-35 Corridor

In the future, megapolitan growth is and will remain bullish. By 2040 megapolitans are expected to add 83 million people. In total, this means that over 350 million people will likely live in one of ten regions in the United States.

If you’re a church planter, and you’re not preparing for the coming realities associated with megapolitans, you should just quit now.