Harbor City Church

Name

Harbor City Church

Legal name

Harbor City Church

Website

https://harborcitychs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Charleston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: Traditional Sunday giving through electronic bank transfer (30¢ per transaction), debit (2.15%), and credit cards. Also includes automated recurring giving through online portal.
2. Text-to-Give: Donors can text a dollar amount to 84321 to make contributions.
3. Mail Donations: Checks payable to Harbor City Church can be mailed to the church address.
4. Non-Cash Giving: Accepts stocks and mutual funds (processed through National Christian Foundation), IRA Qualified Charitable Distributions (up to $100,000 for those 70½+), real estate, life insurance, and estate planning gifts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Harbor City Church delivers Christian worship, teaching, and ministry through three Sunday services and supporting programs (Kids, College, Community Groups, Weekender onboarding, Serve, Prayer). It also operates Carolina Bay Daycare as a paid weekday childcare service, charging $265/week for infants (6 weeks to under 2 years) and $255/week for toddlers (2 years and older), operating 7 a.m.–6 p.m. All programming and donations are managed through the Church Center digital platform.

Product overview

Harbor City Church operates as a multi-ministry organization in Charleston, SC, offering a unified portfolio of church and community services. The core offering is Sunday worship services at 8, 9:30 & 11 a.m., supported by programs including Kids Ministry, College Ministry, Community Groups, and The Weekender onboarding program. The church also operates Carolina Bay Daycare as a childcare service subsidiary, and provides a sermon library with searchable content organized by series and speakers. Additional programs include Serve Ministry (volunteer opportunities), Prayer Ministry, and a Giving/Donations platform for tithes and offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunday Worship Services Three Sunday gatherings at 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00 a.m. featuring passionate worship, gospel-centered preaching, and a parallel kids ministry. Open to the general public in Charleston, SC.
• Carolina Bay Daycare Paid weekday childcare for infants (6 weeks to under 2 years) at $265/week and toddlers (2 years and older) at $255/week, operating 7 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday–Friday under DSS-compliant staffing ratios with gospel-centered programming.
• Kids Ministry Children's ministry for babies through elementary age, segmented into Babies, Walkers, Preschool, and Elementary, with a dedicated Check-In system designed to partner with parents in raising children in Christ.
• College Ministry Disciple-making ministry focused on college students in Charleston, designed to make disciples who make disciples on campus and beyond.
• Community Groups Small, weekly gatherings meeting in homes and around Charleston, providing a smaller expression of the church where the implications of the gospel are put into action through Bible study, fellowship, and mission.
• The Weekender A two-session onboarding event (Friday 6–9 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.–12 p.m.) covering the church's vision and values, community groups, serving opportunities, and how to become a covenant member. Designed as the mid-funnel pathway from weekend attendee to engaged member.
• Serve Ministry Centralized volunteer placement program directing members into service roles across Kids, Hospitality, Worship, Production, and Prayer teams.
• Sermon Archive Full searchable library of past sermons including series such as The King and The Kingdom (Matthew), The Kingdom of God, John: Come and See, The Ten Commandments, Bear Fruit, Jesus On Money, and Rebuild | A Journey Through Nehemiah, by speakers Jonathan Lenker, Philip Black, Tyler English, Stephen Rabon, and Craig Tuck.
• Online Giving (Tithes & Offerings) Donation platform enabling tithes, offerings, and non-cash contributions through multiple channels (electronic, text-to-give, mail, securities, IRA QCDs, real estate, estate planning).

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• National Christian Foundation (NCF)supportingTechnology or IntegrationPartnership with National Christian Foundation to process gifts of marketable securities (stocks, mutual funds, bonds) for donors making non-cash charitable contributions.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• The Village Church: The Village Church (Flower Mound, TX) is an evangelical church known for church-planting multiplication and a community groups-driven discipleship model. Comparable in church-planting DNA and structured community-group approach similar to Harbor City's Weekender-to-Covenant pathway.
• Watermark Community Church: Watermark Community Church (Plano/Dallas, TX) is a large non-denominational evangelical church known for its discipleship-focused model and church-planting pipeline. Comparable as a peer with a similar gospel-centered, discipleship-making ethos and structured membership pathway.
• NewSpring Church: NewSpring Church (Anderson, SC) is a large multi-site evangelical church in South Carolina with a similar model of community groups, kids ministry, and church multiplication. Comparable as a regional peer in the same state and same evangelical tradition.
• The Summit Church: The Summit Church (Raleigh-Durham, NC) is the sending church that planted Harbor City in 2022. Both operate multi-campus evangelical models with community groups, kids ministry, and church-planting vision — making Summit the most directly comparable peer.
• Seacoast Church: Seacoast Church is a large multi-campus evangelical church headquartered in Mount Pleasant, SC (Charleston metro). It serves the same Charleston-area demographic with comparable programming (kids ministry, community groups, weekend services) and represents the dominant local competitor.
• East Cooper Church: East Cooper Church (Mount Pleasant, SC) is a non-denominational evangelical church serving the Charleston metro with comparable community groups, kids ministry, and weekend services. Direct geographic peer competing for the same households.

Others

• Acts 29 Church Planting Network: Acts 29 is a global church-planting network that supports new church plants, including those affiliated with Harbor City's planting tradition. Relevant as an ecosystem peer given Harbor City's explicit church-planting vision and Summit Church affiliation.

Broad incumbents

• Primrose Schools: Primrose Schools is a national franchise operator of accredited early childhood education centers with a values-based curriculum. Relevant incumbent peer for Carolina Bay Daycare, particularly in the preschool-age segment that Harbor City also serves.
• KinderCare Learning Centers: KinderCare is a large national for-profit childcare operator with thousands of centers across the U.S. Relevant incumbent peer for the daycare side of Harbor City's business, illustrating the scale benchmark for childcare operators.
• Bright Horizons Family Solutions: Bright Horizons is one of the largest U.S. childcare operators with national scale, employer-sponsored programs, and premium pricing. Relevant as a broad incumbent peer for Harbor City's Carolina Bay Daycare subsidiary, though at vastly greater scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/harborcitychs
• Instagraminstagram.com/harborcitychs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/harborcitychs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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