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FC offers a wide range of activities and ministries for all stages of life. FC's "Home Team" ministry, modeled after the popular cell group system, allows newcomers to meet individuals with similar interests and geographic locations, which would not be otherwise possible due to its size.

FC operates a bookstore and coffee bar (The Source), which features mainly FC-logo merchandise and Ed Young's sermons and books.

One of the unique features of FC's facility is its outdoor baptistry. (FC does not have an indoor baptistry, a common feature in church architecture among churches which practice baptism by immersion; whenever FC does perform a baptism indoors it uses portable jacuzzis.) Built like an amphitheater, it is located within a lake on the Grapevine campus (the lake serves as a flood control pond for the property). However, it is physically separated from the lake (to keep whatever may be swimming in the lake out), and is heated similar to a jacuzzi. Notwithstanding that Texas weather is notoriously fickle and at times violent, only on a handful of rare instances have scheduled baptisms been canceled due to inclement weather. Another fountain on the campus (closer to the building) was the initial outdoor baptistry, and is used most often during winter months to allow individuals to more quickly enter the building after being baptized.

Grapevine (Home location) Dowtown Dallas, Fort Worth and Plano all have Worship Experiences on Sundays at 10:00am and 11:30am. Fort Worth also has an additional service at 1:00pm on Sundays. Miami has Wroship Experiences at 11:00am and 12:15pm on Sundays. All Worship Experiences are identical in format and content. Special "age appropriate" programs are held for preschoolers and children through 5th grade during all FC Worship Experiences. Visit fellowshipchurch.com for more information.

FC's Christmas and Easter Worship Experiences are among the area's most popular, and in order to accommodate the large crowds over 20 separate Experiences are held during a 3-4 day period. In 2004, FC was able to rent the American Airlines Center for its Christmas Worship Experience due to the NHL lockout which made the facility available; however, for 2005 it reverted to having multiple Worship Experiences at its campuses (11 at the Grapevine campus, five at Plano, three at Alliance, and two at Downtown).

In December 2005, Associated Press reported that Fellowship was one of several American mega-churches that would not hold services on Christmas Day, which in 2005 fell on a Sunday. At least one talk show host (nationally syndicated radio host Mike Gallagher, featured on local radio station KRLD) criticized Fellowship's decision not to hold services that day, since Sunday is the traditional day of worship in Christianity.

The night before Super Bowl XLI Fellowship gave away 2 tickets and airfare from its Grapevine Campus to the game, garnering widespread media attention as a way to attract people who do not normally attend church. Another media attention took place in late 2008, when Senior Pastor Ed Young encouraged the married couples of FC, as a plan of strengthening the traditional family, to engage in sexual intercourse every day for one week.

In September 2007, FC launched a website, ineed2change.com, in conjunction with a sermon series of the same name.

In September 2009, Fellowship Church in Grapevine hosted an ABC debate on adultery between Pastor Ed Young and AshleyMadison.com founder Noel Biderman.

In February 2010, Fellowship Church and Ed Young were at the center of a controversy regarding Young's use of private aircraft in his travels. Young responded to the story the following weekend.