Continental Baptist Mission

What Continental Baptist Mission does

Continental Baptist Mission (CBM) is a nonprofit religious missionary organization founded in 1942 and headquartered in Rockford, Michigan. It operates across North America with a mission focus on church planting, church revitalization, and church building, serving independent Baptist churches and missionaries engaged in these activities. The organization functions as a sending and support entity for field missionaries and partner congregations rather than a direct congregational ministry to end congregants.

CBM's core "products" are its structured missionary support programs, including Planting Partners (recurring donor-to-missionary pairing), Military Mission, Sustaining Partnerships, and project-specific church planting and building initiatives. There is no proprietary technology stack; operations rely on standard nonprofit infrastructure, with Pushpay used as the third-party digital giving platform to process online donations and recurring gifts from supporters.

The business model is a charitable donation model with no pricing structure or fee-for-service component. Revenue is generated entirely through voluntary contributions from individuals and partner churches, supplemented by planned giving and earmarked gifts directed to specific missionaries or projects. The go-to-market approach is relationship-driven — missionaries are recruited and supported through faith-network referrals, and donations are solicited through direct outreach, the website, and the digital giving platform. There are no disclosed enterprise customers, government contracts, or commercial revenue streams; supported missionaries and partner churches are beneficiaries rather than paying customers.

Name

Continental Baptist Mission

Legal name

Continental Baptist Missions

Website

https://cbmoffice.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1942

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Continental Baptist Mission is a nonprofit religious organization founded in 1942 and headquartered in Rockford, Michigan. It supports church planting, revitalization, and building across North America through donor-funded missionary partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Mission Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGAJAE

Faith-Based Missions & Evangelism Organizations (Domestic & International)

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Religious & Faith-Based Organizations

SECONDARYBPAGAJAA

Local Congregations & Worship Communities (Churches, Mosques, Temples, Synagogues)

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Religious & Faith-Based Organizations

Keywords

• Church planting services
• Church revitalization
• Religious mission services
• Faith-based nonprofit
• Missionary support

Headquarters

HQ city

Rockford

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Giving: Continental Baptist Missions operates as a nonprofit religious organization funded primarily through donations from individuals, churches, and supporters. The organization solicits gifts through online giving (Pushpay), planned giving, and special project funds. Revenue is generated entirely through voluntary charitable contributions rather than product or service sales.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Continental Baptist Missions recruits, trains, and supports field missionaries who plant new biblically sound Baptist churches, revitalize struggling congregations, and construct worship facilities across North America. Its three core ministry lines are branded as Plant, Revitalize, and Build, and the organization is funded entirely through voluntary charitable donations from individuals, churches, and supporters.

Product overview

Continental Baptist Missions offers a three-pronged approach to church ministry: Church Planting (Plant), Church Revitalization (Revitalize), and Building Ministries (Build). These core services work together to establish new churches, restore struggling congregations, and construct physical worship spaces throughout North America. The organization has provided support services for planting and revitalizing biblically sound, spiritually healthy, disciple-making Baptist churches since 1942.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Church Planting (Plant)

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• BCM International: A Baptist mission organization focused on church planting and discipleship among children, families, and church leaders. Comparable to CBM because of shared Baptist identity, missionary recruitment model, and church-planter training pipeline.
• Converge: A Baptist-rooted missions movement with a Start Network that plants churches in North America. Comparable to CBM because of overlapping Baptist heritage and a domestic church-planting focus that competes for similar missionary candidates and donor churches.
• Acts 29: A global church planting network that recruits, assesses, and coaches church planters. Comparable to CBM because it operates a community-led missionary/church-planter network with a similar recruitment-and-support GTM motion.
• North American Mission Board (NAMB): The Southern Baptist Convention's domestic mission sending and church planting agency. Directly comparable to CBM because both recruit, train, deploy, and support missionaries and church planters across North America with an explicit domestic-only focus.
• Association of Related Churches (ARC): A relational cooperative of church planters and revitalizing churches across North America. ARC's Plant and Revitalize ministry model closely mirrors CBM's three-pronged approach and its target audience of church planters in underserved U.S. communities.
• Mission to North America (PCA): The Presbyterian Church in America's domestic mission agency that plants and revitalizes churches across North America. Comparable to CBM as a denominationally-affiliated domestic mission body pursuing the same plant/revitalize use cases in the U.S.
• Replant Network: A network focused specifically on the revitalization of declining and dying churches. Directly comparable to CBM's Revitalize arm and targets the same use case of restoring struggling U.S. congregations.
• Stadia: A church planting organization that identifies, trains, funds, and coaches new church planters. Directly comparable to CBM because both serve as umbrella mission agencies funding and supporting domestic church planters in the U.S.

Emerging players

• Church Multiplication Network: A church planting resourcing hub providing assessment, training, and coaching for church planters. Comparable to CBM because it operates in the same church-planter recruitment and support category, though it is more of a network/coaching platform than a direct sending agency.
• Great Commission Resourcing (GCR): A church planting resourcing organization working primarily in the Midwest U.S. Comparable to CBM because of overlapping Baptist/evangelical ecosystem, geographic overlap in the Midwest, and similar church-planter support and coaching offerings.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/continental-baptist-mission

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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