Fountain of Life

What Fountain of Life does

Fountain of Life is a multi-campus, non-denominational Christian church founded in 2009 and led by Senior Pastor Hans Hess, headquartered in northeastern North Carolina. The organization operates three physical campuses in Elizabeth City (NC), Edenton (NC), and Virginia Beach (VA), and explicitly positions itself as a multi-ethnic, multi-generational congregation. Its core offering is weekly worship services and pastoral teaching, delivered in person and extended to broader audiences through livestream and television ministry.

The church operates an ecosystem of sub-ministries targeting distinct life stages and needs, including programs for youth, children, marriage, recovery, and community outreach. Digital infrastructure includes a livestream platform, television broadcast, and a mobile application that supports sermon access, event information, and digital giving. Internationally, the church sustains missions partnerships and outreach efforts outside the United States.

As a 501(c)(3) religious nonprofit, Fountain of Life is funded primarily through voluntary contributions (tithes and offerings) from its congregants and supporters. There is no disclosed pricing, subscription, or commercial revenue model; the organization does not publish audited revenue figures in the available input. The entity is governed and led by its senior pastoral team, with Hans Hess serving as the founding and continuing spiritual authority.

Name

Fountain of Life

Legal name

Fountain of Life

Website

https://folchurch.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fountain of Life is a multi-campus, non-denominational Christian church founded in 2009 under Senior Pastor Hans Hess, operating three campuses in North Carolina and Virginia with livestream, television, and app-based ministry to regional and global audiences.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Edenton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: Congregants contribute through online giving via Pushpay platform, text-to-give (833-245-6640), in-person during Sunday services with cash or check, mail-in donations to P.O. Box 2028 Elizabeth City N.C., and mobile app giving.
2. General Giving: Church members and visitors give financially to support church operations, missions, and community outreach programs. Giving is available at all three campuses.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Fountain of Life is a multi-campus, multi-ethnic, multi-generational church that provides biblical worship services, discipleship pathways, and community-based ministry programs across three physical campuses in North Carolina and Virginia, supplemented by online livestream ministry. The organization delivers a portfolio of free ministry programs including children's, youth, senior, missions, and pastoral care ministries, supported by voluntary tithes and offerings as its funding model.

Product overview

Fountain of Life is a multi-campus, multi-ethnic, multi-generational church in rural northeastern North Carolina offering a portfolio of ministry programs and services. The church operates three physical campuses (Elizabeth City, Edenton, and Virginia Beach) plus digital outreach through livestream ministry. Core programs include FOL Kids (children's ministry for K-5th grade with nursery services), FOL Youth (teenage/student ministries), and FOL Seniors (comprehensive senior care with 11 sub-ministries including Watch Care, Senior Lunches, Card Ministry, Senior Trips, Donut Ministry, Quilters Ministry, and more). Specialized ministries include Healing Rooms (weekly prayer services), Storehouse Ministries (furniture/household assistance), Stephen's Ministry (one-to-one pastoral care), and Missions & Outreach (global trip programs and local service). The church offers baptism services, Connect Class (membership pathway), and seasonal events like Summer Revival with Kids' Crusade. Digital giving is supported through Pushpay online and text-to-give, reaching congregants across multiple campuses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FOL Kids: Children's ministry program for nursery through 5th grade, offering safe learning environment with Bible teaching, worship, and activities
• FOLYTH
• Storehouse Ministries
• Healing Rooms
• Stephen's Ministry
• FOL Seniors
• Missions & Outreach

Products and services

• FOL Kids Children's ministry program for nursery through 5th grade providing a safe, fun learning environment with the Orange curriculum. Operates during Sunday services with safe-check-in and background-checked volunteers. Available at the Elizabeth City, Edenton, and Virginia Beach campuses.
• FOL Youth (FOLYTH) Youth ministry for middle and high school students with a dedicated youth building, weekly youth groups, Hype Nights, and student ministries. Headquartered at the Elizabeth City campus.
• FOL Seniors Ministry Comprehensive senior adult ministry with sub-ministries including Watch Care, Senior Lunches, Card Ministry, Senior Trips, Donut Ministry, Quilters Ministry, Senior Sunday School, Nursing Home Visitation, Widow/Widower Ministry, and Prayer Text Ministry.
• Healing Rooms Ministry offering focused, confidential prayer for physical and spiritual needs. Meets every Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Fountain of Life Church.
• Storehouse Ministries Non-profit outreach ministry that provides furniture, appliances, and household items to people in need in the local community.
• Stephen's Ministry Stephen Ministers provide high-quality, one-to-one, Christ-centered care to people experiencing life difficulties, such as grief, divorce, job loss, hospitalization, or spiritual crisis.
• Missions & Outreach Global missions and local outreach programs including scheduled international mission trips to Ecuador (medical, children's, prison ministry), Guatemala (feeding, children's ministry), and South Sudan (medical ministry), plus local service projects.
• Baptism Services Water baptism services as an outward expression of new life in Christ with full submersion performed in the presence of witnesses, available to congregants as a public declaration of faith.
• Sunday School Weekly Sunday school classes at the Elizabeth City campus including Men's Class, Women's Class, and Combined Class for biblical education and fellowship.
• Livestream Ministry Live streaming of Sunday services at 9 AM and 11 AM and Wednesday services at 7 PM, reaching regional and global communities through online streaming and television broadcasts.
• Connect Class (Life Track) The first step in the Life Track pathway to church membership. Introduces newcomers to Fountain of Life's history, beliefs, and ministry opportunities, leading toward partnership (membership) at the church.
• Summer Revival & Kids' Crusade Annual revival services held at the Elizabeth City campus with guest Evangelist Doug Eccles, including a simultaneous Kids' Crusade for babies and children up to 5th grade. The 2026 edition is scheduled to begin on July 26, 2026.
• Online Giving Platform Pushpay-powered online and text-to-give (833-245-6640) platform supporting single and recurring gifts across all three campuses via checking account, debit, or credit card; also accessible through the church mobile app.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Christ Fellowship Church: Multi-site church in South Florida with multiple regional campuses, contemporary worship, and digital ministry. Comparable as a mid-size multi-site church with strong digital presence and children's/youth programming at scale.
• Elevation Church: Multi-site megachurch headquartered in Matthews, North Carolina, with a Charlotte-area campus network. Directly comparable as a multi-site NC church using digital broadcast (Elevation Worship) and contemporary worship programming to scale beyond a single location.
• The Summit Church: Multi-site church in the Raleigh-Durham, NC region with a centralized teaching model and several regional campuses. Directly comparable as a North Carolina multi-campus church pursuing similar broadcast-driven, multi-site growth strategy.
• Watermark Church: Multi-site church in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro with multiple campuses and a wide ministry portfolio. Comparable as a contemporary multi-campus church with extensive ministry programming beyond weekend services.
• Christ Community Church: Multi-site evangelical church with campuses across multiple US metros, emphasizing community groups, missions, and family ministry. Comparable on multi-site operating model and breadth of demographic-specific ministries.
• Seacoast Church: Multi-site church headquartered in Mount Pleasant, SC with numerous regional campuses across the Carolinas and online. Comparable as a Carolinas-based multi-site church using broadcast-grade video and contemporary worship to scale beyond a single location.
• McLean Bible Church: Multi-site church based in McLean, Virginia with multiple regional campuses across the DC/Virginia metro. Highly comparable as a multi-campus church in Virginia operating satellite locations under a unified teaching brand, directly overlapping Fountain of Life's Virginia Beach geography.
• Life.Church: Multi-site church with dozens of physical campuses across the US plus a pioneering online church experience. Most directly comparable peer on the digital/online ministry dimension that Fountain of Life emphasizes via livestream and TV broadcast.

Broad incumbents

• North Point Community Church: Atlanta-area multi-site church widely credited with pioneering the contemporary multi-campus model and the Orange children's curriculum (which Fountain of Life's FOL Kids uses). A larger, more established incumbent whose playbook Fountain of Life's multi-site and children's ministry design closely follows.
• Gateway Church: Large multi-site church in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro with numerous campuses and global missions emphasis. Comparable on multi-site scale and missions focus; larger and more established than Fountain of Life.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCXXXXXXXXXX
• Facebookfacebook.com/folec
• Instagraminstagram.com/folecchurch

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Number of profiles

Profiles15 records

Subsidiaries8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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