Hope Chapel

What Hope Chapel does

Hope Chapel is an independent non-profit church organization headquartered at 908 N. Josephine Boyd St in Greensboro, North Carolina, operating with approximately 123 employees and ministry leaders. It conducts weekly Sunday worship services at 10:30am in an intentionally informal, eclectic style that incorporates diverse musical and liturgical traditions, complemented by a YouTube livestream for remote participants. Beyond the Sunday gathering, Hope Chapel runs an age-segmented ministry portfolio including children's (birth through 5th grade), youth (6th–12th grade), college (anchored by proximity to UNC-Greensboro), men's, and women's ministries, alongside 14 multi-generational neighborhood-based community groups that meet Sunday evenings three times monthly for shared meals, scripture study, prayer, and fellowship.

The organization's core "products" are its ministry programs rather than software products: a sermon archive exceeding 491 messages distributed via Apple Podcasts and the website, an original worship music catalog released on Spotify and Bandcamp, and structured service programs (local food distribution with Out of the Garden Project serving 50+ families monthly, and global mission partnerships in Costa Rica, Japan, Africa, and Uganda). Its technology infrastructure is entirely composed of off-the-shelf third-party platforms — Planning Center Online and Church Center for giving and engagement, YouTube for livestream, and social media channels (Instagram, Facebook) for outreach. There is no proprietary technology, no AI/ML capabilities, and no software product revenue.

Hope Chapel's revenue model is straightforward: it is funded entirely by voluntary tithes and offerings from congregation members, with no fees charged for attendance or services. Giving is facilitated through multiple channels including in-service collection, online one-time and recurring gifts via Planning Center Online, the Church Center mobile app, and Venmo. The organization also launched a "Clearing the Ground" mortgage relief campaign to retire facility debt. As a non-profit entity in North Carolina, Hope Chapel is self-governing with no disclosed parent company, external ownership, institutional investors, or funding rounds; its geographic footprint is anchored in Greensboro with global reach limited to mission-partner deployments.

Name

Hope Chapel

Legal name

Hope Chapel

Website

https://hopechapelgreensboro.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Hope Chapel is an independent non-profit church in Greensboro, NC, serving approximately 123 staff and ministry leaders through Sunday worship services, 14 multi-generational community groups, age-specific ministries, and local and global mission partnerships, funded entirely by voluntary tithes and offerings.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131)

akta.pro primary industry

Places of Worship & Religious Facilities Operations (Cemeteries, Retreat Centers, Pilgrimage Sites) (BPAGAJAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Faith-Based Education & Formation (Seminaries, Religious Schools, Catechesis) (BPAGAJAD), Faith-Based & Mission Service Programs (EDAIAGAI)

Keywords

• Church worship services
• Community small groups
• Youth ministry programs
• Children's ministry
• Global mission partnerships

Headquarters

HQ city

Greensboro

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, Others

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: Hope Chapel relies on voluntary donations from congregation members as its primary revenue source. Members are encouraged to be stewards of what God gives them for the good of others.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Hope Chapel is a non-profit church in Greensboro, NC that delivers weekly in-person worship services (Sundays at 10:30am) supported by a YouTube livestream, an archive of 491+ sermon messages, and an original worship music program. Its core programmatic offering is a network of 14+ small community groups meeting in neighborhoods, complemented by age-specific ministries (children, youth, college, men, women), local service initiatives in Greensboro, and global mission partnerships in Costa Rica, Japan, Uganda, and Africa.

Product overview

Hope Chapel is a church community in Greensboro, NC offering worship services, small groups, and various ministry programs. The organization operates as a single unified ministry rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Core offerings include Sunday worship gatherings (in-person and via YouTube livestream), a sermon archive with over 491 messages, Community Groups for small group discipleship, age-specific ministries for youth, children, college students, men, and women, and local/global mission partnerships. The church also provides digital giving tools through Planning Center Online and manages music ministry with original worship recordings available on Spotify and Bandcamp.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunday Worship Services Weekly in-person Sunday morning worship gathering at 10:30am at 908 N. Josephine Boyd St, Greensboro, NC. Service features eclectic musical worship, reformed biblical preaching, weekly Communion, and children's ministry programs for nursery through 5th grade. Open to all in the Greensboro community.
• Sermon Archive Online archive of 491+ sermon messages from Hope Chapel, organized by series, speaker, topic, and biblical book. Available as audio downloads on the Hope Chapel website and distributed as the Hope Chapel Sermons podcast on Apple Podcasts.
• Music Ministry and Worship Albums Hope Chapel's music ministry program that produces original worship music and integrates hymns across cultures and time periods into congregational singing. Released albums include Psalms, Jesus Came Jesus Comes, and What Spoils From Death He Won, distributed on Bandcamp and streaming platforms.
• Community Groups Network of 14+ small groups of 10-20 people that meet on Sunday evenings three times per month in Greensboro neighborhoods. Groups share meals, study Scripture, pray, and fellowship together, and are intentionally multi-generational with children welcome. 15 groups are named across Greensboro neighborhoods.
• Youth Ministry

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Good Shepherd's FoldcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1994Part of Global Outreach International, established in 1994 with the purpose of evangelizing orphan and destitute children of Uganda with the good news of Christ while providing for their physical, spiritual, educational and medical needs.
• Out of the Garden ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMonthly food distribution partnership since 2016. Hope Chapel participates in Serving Greensboro Together on the first Saturday of each month, distributing food to over fifty families and individuals from 8:45-10:45am.
• Family Room TriadminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMonthly service opportunity serving at Family Room Triad on the third Tuesday evening, helping sort donations and support their ministry to foster families in the city.
• Black Suit InitiativeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal ministry partner focused on social renewal and justice in the Greensboro community.
• Face of Justice Ministries (Gilroy Family)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSteve and Elizabeth Gilroy serve with Face of Justice Ministries in San José, Costa Rica, working to stop the commercialization of men, women and children through intervention, prevention, and restoration. Hope Chapel has sent 3 teams to serve with them.
• Mission to the World (Davison Family)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJonas and Christina Davison and their children (Maggie, Keith, and Judah) serve with Mission to the World, preparing to move to Tokyo, Japan to work with Community Arts, building community through the arts and encouraging Japanese believers.
• Carter FamilyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDavid and Rachael Carter lead teams serving among unreached peoples in Africa, also learning Spanish with a view to reach out to Spaniards and African immigrants.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Christ Community Church: Non-denominational evangelical church with a similar small-group-centric structure and demographic-segmented ministry programming. Comparable in scale and ministry philosophy to Hope Chapel.
• Summit Church: Non-denominational evangelical church in Durham, NC, near Duke University, with a similar small-groups-driven discipleship model and college-town footprint. Highly comparable in theology (reformed evangelical), ministry structure, and target demographic mix.
• Watermark Community Church: Large non-denominational evangelical church in Dallas, TX, known for community-group-centric discipleship, transparent financial reporting, and multiple demographic-specific ministries — overlapping in operational philosophy with Hope Chapel's community-groups-first approach.
• The Village Church: Non-denominational reformed-evangelical church in the Dallas-Fort Worth area (Matt Chandler) with a strong preaching and small-groups model. Compares directly to Hope Chapel on theology, sermon-driven content strategy, and emphasis on community formation.

Broad incumbents

• Elevation Church: Large non-denominational multi-site church based in Charlotte, NC, with similar informal, contemporary worship style and a strong digital presence. Geographic and stylistic proximity makes it a relevant broader-market incumbent.
• Church of the Highlands: One of the largest multi-site churches in the U.S., based in Birmingham, AL, with a strong small-groups model and digital content distribution. Relevant as a scaled incumbent demonstrating the growth trajectory Hope Chapel's model could theoretically follow.
• North Point Community Church: Founded by Andy Stanley in Alpharetta, GA, North Point is a much larger multi-campus evangelical church that pioneered the community-groups strategy Hope Chapel mirrors. Useful as a benchmark for how the small-groups model scales into a multi-site operation.

Others

• Planning Center (CCV): Church management and giving software platform that Hope Chapel uses for online donations, community group coordination, and member engagement. Included as an enabling ecosystem peer given the operational dependency documented in the source data.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@hopechapelgreensboro3214
• Facebookfacebook.com/hopechapelgso
• Instagraminstagram.com/hopechapelgso
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hope-chapel

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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