City Hill Church

What City Hill Church does

City Hill Church is an independent, non-denominational charismatic Christian church headquartered on an 8-acre campus at 12901 Roberts Drive in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, founded in 1970 as New Testament Church, renamed City Hill Fellowship in 1997, and rebranded to its current name in 2014. The church operates a single weekly Sunday worship service at 10am, both in-person and via simultaneous live streams on YouTube and Facebook, supplemented by weekday Morning Prayer gatherings on Zoom (Monday–Friday 6am), youth programming (Summit) for grades 7–12 on Wednesdays, an extensive Connect Groups and Life Groups network across the metro, dedicated children's ministry, women's mentoring, men's accountability groups, and Serve Teams. The organization is governed by a Lead Elder (Brian Dueber), four additional elders, a Lead Pastor (Ben Mailhot), an Executive Pastor (Kurt Ullrich), and program directors for Children's, Youth, and Worship ministries, supported by a staff of approximately eight.

The church's operating stack is built entirely on third-party, off-the-shelf infrastructure: Squarespace for the website, AWS for hosting, Google Analytics and Google Maps API for site instrumentation, Pushpay for online giving and tithe processing, and Church Community Builder (CCB) for group registrations, communications, and member management. There is no proprietary product, mobile app, or developer-facing API; the organization explicitly does not offer a technology or SaaS platform.

City Hill's revenue model relies exclusively on voluntary tithes and offerings from congregation members, channeled via in-person collection and Pushpay online giving, which the church frames as joyful and non-coercive per 2 Corinthians 9:7. There is no fee-for-service pricing, no commercial product line, no disclosed budget or annual revenue, and no public reporting. The ministry also operates an Impact Fund that disburses a portion of giving to eight or more named Ministry Partners serving locally, regionally, and internationally (including YWAM Twin Cities, Wycliffe Bible Translators, CRU Twin Cities, Prepare Ministries, New Mercies in Rwanda, Charis Bible College Singapore, and Gospel Community). The church is affiliated with the TrueBridge Churches network but has no parent organization, no outside equity, and no venture or private capital investment on record.

Name

City Hill Church

Legal name

City Hill Church

Website

https://cityhill.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1970

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

City Hill Church is an independent, non-denominational charismatic Christian church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, serving a local congregation through Sunday worship, connect groups, youth and children's ministries, and global mission partnerships funded by voluntary tithes.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

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

Keywords

• Christian church services
• Worship gatherings
• Community small groups
• Children's ministry
• Missions and outreach

Headquarters

HQ city

Eden Prairie

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: Voluntary financial giving from congregation members during worship services and online through Pushpay platform. The church explicitly states that giving should be voluntary and joyful per 2 Corinthians 9:7.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

City Hill Church is a non-denominational charismatic Christian church that provides Sunday worship services, Connect Groups for community and discipleship, children's and youth ministries, men's and women's ministry programs, serve teams, and an Impact Fund supporting domestic and international missions. Offerings are delivered in-person at its Eden Prairie, Minnesota campus and online via live stream and Zoom.

Product overview

City Hill Church is a non-denominational charismatic Christian church located in Eden Prairie, MN. The church provides traditional ministry services and programs including Sunday worship services, children's ministry, youth ministry (Summit), women's mentoring, men's accountability groups, and connect/life groups. The church also operates an Impact Fund supporting local and global ministry partners through financial contributions, prayer support, and short-term mission trips. The church uses third-party platforms including Squarespace for website hosting, Pushpay for online giving/tithes, and CCB (Church Community Builder) for church management. The organization does not offer a technology product or SaaS platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunday Worship Services Weekly Christian worship gatherings held at the Eden Prairie campus and streamed online, led by the Lead Pastor and Worship Director, attended by congregation members and visitors.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Gary & Stella Gilbertson | Prepare MinistriesminorOthers · 1 January 1970Ministry Partners who founded Prepare Ministries in 2000, a campus-based young adult ministry. Purpose is to prepare a generation for the second coming of Jesus. Based in Northfield, MN.
• TrueBridge ChurchescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity Hill Church is affiliated with TrueBridge Churches, a network of like-minded churches.
• Paul & Linda Humnick | Wycliffe Bible TranslatorsminorOthersPaul serves on Bible translation project for Kumyk people of Dagestan, Russia. Linda works as linguistics consultant for translation projects in Eurasia.
• Steve & Barb Norell | YWAM | Twin CitiesminorOthersServing with YWAM for 30 years. Steve on Leadership Team, oversees accounting, Kids Against Hunger, vehicles. Barb oversees Hospitality, Staff Care, Personnel.
• Charlie & Karen Oglesby | New Mercies MinistriesminorOthersDirectors of New Mercies whose mission is to bring Christ's message to hurting people in post-crisis nations. Focus on Rwanda with Faith Village project for young girls who are victims of abuse.
• Steven & Robin Ose | CRU | Twin CitiesminorOthersServing with CRU (Campus Crusade for Christ) to reach students on 6,000 campuses worldwide. Originally served in East Asia.
• Cindy Pearson | Charis Bible College | SingaporeminorOthersDirector of Andrew Wommack Ministries/Charis Bible College Singapore. Ministry has expanded to 280 students in 5 countries with multiple Chinese translation projects.
• Paul & Bobbi Wichterman | Gospel CommunityminorOthersFounders/directors of Gospel Community, a discipleship program using intentional Christian community house model with three rhythms: οἶκος environment, serving partnership ministries, and attending local church.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• North Point Community Church: Large non-denominational church in Atlanta, GA founded by Andy Stanley. Comparable operating model to City Hill (community groups, family ministry, missions) but at materially larger scale and broader national profile.

Regional players

• Eagle Brook Church: Large multi-site non-denominational church headquartered in the Twin Cities. Comparable to City Hill as a Minnesota charismatic-leaning congregation but operates at substantially larger scale with multiple campuses.
• Wooddale Church: Large non-denominational evangelical church also based in Eden Prairie, MN. Direct local peer to City Hill Church given identical city, comparable theological orientation (Bible-based), and overlapping Twin Cities ministry market.
• River Valley Church: Non-denominational charismatic church in the Twin Cities metro. Comparable to City Hill in theology, congregational model, and Minnesota geography, and competes for the same pool of charismatic-leaning attenders.

Direct peers

• McLean Bible Church: Non-denominational Bible-based church in Northern Virginia. Comparable to City Hill in mid-sized, single-region model with multiple ministries and missions focus, though significantly larger.
• Woodlands Church: Non-denominational charismatic Bible-based church near Houston, TX. Comparable to City Hill in theological orientation, multi-generational ministry offerings, and missions emphasis.
• Bethel Church: Large charismatic, Bible-based church in Redding, CA. Closest theological and ministry-style peer to City Hill (charismatic, healing/exorcism-emphasis, missions culture, similar New Testament-model governance).
• Bayside Church: Non-denominational charismatic-leaning church in Granite Bay, CA. Similar theological posture, multi-generational ministry model, and missions culture to City Hill Church.
• Summit Church: Non-denominational evangelical church in Durham, NC with similar eldership-led governance and missions emphasis. Comparable to City Hill in operating model, although at a larger scale.

Others

• TrueBridge Churches: Church network/affiliation body of which City Hill is a member. Directly relevant as an ecosystem peer rather than a competitor; provides shared identity, accountability, and resource support.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@CityHillChurchep/streams
• Facebookfacebook.com/cityhillchurch.ep
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/city-hill-church

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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