[5] A year later it was announced that NewSpring would be led by a team of Lead Pastors (Brad Cooper, Michael Mullikin, Tyler Tatum, David Hall, Lee McDerment, and Riley Cummings) and Teaching Pastors (Brad Cooper, Clayton King, Dan Lian, and Meredith Knox) would share the stage on Sundays.

[9] In November 2018, CBS News ranked NewSpring Church as the eight largest megachurch in the United States with about 23,055 weekly visitors.

[17][18][19] In 2016, youth group volunteer Leo LaSalle Comissiong, then 20, was charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

[22] Church volunteer Jacop Hazlett, then 28, was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor on November 28, 2018.

Investigators said Hazlett molested a three year old in a bathroom on the NewSpring campus in North Charleston, SC on November 25, 2018.

The church claimed that Hazlett passed a background check; however, at 17, he was charged with gross sexual imposition of a young boy in Columbiana County, Ohio.

[25] On December 12, 2019, following a two-day jury trial, Hazlett was found guilty of sexually abusing several minors and was sentenced to 75 years in prison.

According to a lawsuit's initial complaint, NewSpring failed to contact the two churches in North Carolina that Hazlett used to volunteer with but was asked to leave due to "concerns about his behavior around children."