Move Church

What Move Church does

Move Church (Move e.V.) is a non-profit evangelical free church (Freikirche) registered as a charitable association in Wiesbaden, Germany, founded in 1990 by Andreas Herrmann. The organization operates four service locations — Wiesbaden (headquarters), Frankfurt, Gießen, and an Online Campus — serving evangelical Christians across the Rhine-Main and Central Hesse regions. It is governed by a four-member board and supported by 11–50 paid staff alongside an extensive volunteer network branded as the "Dreamteam." Leadership transitioned from founder Herrmann to Antonio Weil in June 2023.

Core activities include weekly worship services, age-segmented faith-development programming (children, youth, young adults, marriage/family, seniors), pastoral counseling, and small-group formats. Distribution channels are conventional: in-person services, the Online Campus for remote attendees, and sermon/content distribution via YouTube and Spotify. The technical stack is off-the-shelf — church.tools (a German church administration SaaS), PayPal and bank-transfer donation rails, standard web infrastructure, and social media — with no proprietary platform, application layer, or AI component. Operations extend beyond Germany through social-missionary projects in Pakistan, Ecuador, Romania, and Israel, and through support for German church plants in Berlin, Frankfurt (Haven), Greifswald, Erfurt, Hamburg, and Leipzig.

The economic model is 100% donation-funded with no commercial pricing or product revenue. A 2024/25 annual campaign raised approximately 530,000 EUR; a separate multi-year capital campaign for a permanent Frankfurt facility targets 2.5M EUR and is currently at ~15% (~375,572 EUR). Financials are not publicly disclosed beyond these campaign totals, constraining benchmarking of total income, reserves, or program-level cost structure.

Name

Move Church

Legal name

Move Church e.V.

Website

https://movechurch.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Move Church (Move e.V.) is a German non-profit evangelical free church operating four campuses — Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Gießen, and an Online Campus — serving evangelical Christians in the Rhine-Main and Central Hesse regions, funded 100% by voluntary donations and supporting domestic church plants and international missions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious and Community Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

Seminaries (Graduate Theology & Ministry) (EDAHAKAA), Denominational & Ecclesiastical Governance Bodies (Dioceses, Synods, Conferences) (BPAGAJAB), Religious/Faith-Based Radio Networks (MPABABAC)

Keywords

• Evangelical church services
• Religious community programs
• Pastoral counseling services
• Theological education programs
• Social mission projects

Headquarters

HQ city

Wiesbaden, Hessen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Voluntary Donations: Move Church is 100% donation funded. No church taxes (Kirchensteuer) or membership fees are collected. All work areas of the church are financed exclusively through voluntary donations. Donors can give to specific campuses or general purposes, and receive donation receipts (Spendenbescheinigung) for tax purposes.
2. Special Campaign Giving: Annual 'Unser Herz für Sein Haus' campaign raises additional funds for specific projects beyond regular tithes. The 2024/25 campaign raised approximately 530,000 €. Current Frankfurt campus building campaign aims to raise 2.5 million €.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Move Church operates a multisite evangelical church with physical campuses in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and Giessen plus an Online Campus. Its core services are free Sunday worship, pastoral care, religious education, age-based ministries, baptism, courses and theological training, supported by voluntary donations and volunteer participation.

Product overview

Move Church is a multi-site evangelical free church (Freikirche) headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, operating four physical campuses (Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Gießen) and one Online Campus launched in 2020. The church offers Sunday worship services as its core product, supplemented by an extensive suite of ministry sub-products organized across demographics (Move Kids, The Basement youth, Move 50+, Move 70+) and programmatic areas (Heilungsgottesdienste healing services, Prophetie prophetic ministry, Seelsorge pastoral counseling, Gebet prayer ministry, Business Lounge networking). Faith development is supported through Kurse & Seminare (courses including Alpha, Encounter, SEND, prophecy, marriage, finance), Connectgruppen small groups, Move Schritte onboarding, Neustart new-believer entry, and Taufe baptism. Social mission spans international projects in Pakistan, Ecuador, Romania, and Israel plus German church planting, coordinated under the annual Unser Herz für Sein Haus giving campaign. The church also operates Move College/Momentum College for theological training and the Move Netzwerk for church leader networking. All programs are funded entirely through voluntary donations; no church taxes or membership fees are collected.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Move Kids: Children's ministry for ages 0-11 years with age-specific groups including Move Kids Minis (0-2), Move Kids Juniors (3 years to school age), and Move Kids Originals (grades 1-7).
• The Basement
• Move College
• Move 50+
• Move 70+
• Business Lounge
• CAMISSIO
• Move Netzwerk

Products and services

• Gottesdienste (Sunday Worship Services) Weekly worship services held in person at the Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and Giessen campuses, featuring worship, preaching, prayer and fellowship. Services are free and open to the public.
• Online Campus A digital church campus offering Sunday livestreams, online Move Schritte and Online Connectgroups to people who cannot attend a physical location. It is available online and is not admission-fee based.
• Online KiGo (Online Children's Worship) An online children's worship and Bible-education service for families and children who cannot attend Move Church's in-person children's services.
• Heilungsgottesdienste (Healing Services) Special worship services focused on physical, emotional and spiritual healing, with a dedicated prayer team and individual prayer at the end of each service.
• Seelsorge (Pastoral Counseling) Pastoral counseling offered through individual and couple sessions, biweekly Impuls-Seelsorge, Sozo ministry and counseling seminars, supported by trained volunteers and pastoral leaders.
• Taufe (Baptism) A baptism program for individuals making a personal decision of faith, including preparation meetings and public baptism ceremonies held multiple times per year.
• Kurse & Seminare (Courses & Seminars) Faith-development and life-skills courses offered online and in person, including Alpha, Encounter, SEND, finance, marriage, self-care, prophecy and confirmation instruction.
• Move College A full-time theological college, also described as Momentum College, providing pastoral and leadership training.

Quantifiable outcome

• 40+ families freed from debt slavery in Pakistan through micro-enterprise support
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles8 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Integration12 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• HCI – Hope for Children InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing partnership with HCI for work in Dorohoi, Romania. Founded 30+ years ago when five women traveled to respond to needs at a state orphanage. Today includes school (200+ children), kindergarten (60 children), after-school programs, and summer camps. Move Church provides financial support.
• Immanuel International / Fundación ImmanuelcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded 2008 by Move Church members. Children's home in Riobamba, Ecuador serving 60 children daily with meals, education, and spiritual care. Also supports local church planting. Move Church members provide funding and support.
• ICF Tel AvivminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with ICF (International Christian Fellowship) Tel Aviv for evangelism work in Israel. Move Church contributes financially and prayerfully to their work reaching Jewish population with the Gospel.
• Juden für JesusminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Jews for Jesus evangelistic organization for spreading the Gospel in Israel. Move Church provides financial support as part of Israel projects.
• Evangelische AllianzminorOthersMove Church is a member of the Evangelische Allianz (German Evangelical Alliance) at all campus locations, providing network connection to broader evangelical church community.
• Hillsong NetworkminorOthersMove Church is affiliated with the Hillsong Network, connecting to Hillsong churches globally for resources, conferences, and inspiration.
• D-NetzminorOthersCross-regional church network affiliation for German-speaking free churches.
• ACK Wiesbaden (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christlicher Kirchen)minorOthersMove Church Wiesbaden campus is a member of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Wiesbaden, promoting ecumenical dialogue and cooperation among local churches.
• Real Life Church BerlinminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerChurch planting support for Real Life in Berlin, led by Simon and Thaynã Zeidler. Weekly services since October 2024 with growing attendance. Move Church supported launch.
• Haven Church FrankfurtminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerChurch planting support for Haven Church in Frankfurt, led by Tedros and Annabel Anbessa. Move Church provided startup support during founding phase.
• Nordlicht Kirche GreifswaldminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupport for Nordlicht church in Greifswald, one of Germany's most secularized regions. Contributed to establishing a living church in the region.
• ConnectKirche ErfurtminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-year support for ConnectKirche in Erfurt to become a strong, growing local church in a region with declining Christian affiliation.
• Leiterschaft.comminorOthersMove Netzwerk led by Thomas Herrmann connects with Leiterschaft.com, a service for pastoral, leadership, and church development providing resources to church leaders.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Life.Church: Life.Church is a US-based multi-site evangelical church and a pioneer of online church services (Church Online Platform), directly comparable to Move Church's Online Campus model. While geographically distant, it provides an instructive benchmark for how Move Church's digital strategy could scale.
• Hillsong Church: Hillsong is a global multi-site evangelical church and the namesake of the Hillsong Network in which Move Church holds membership. While Hillsong itself operates globally with much larger campuses, it shares Move Church's worship-music-driven contemporary service style, small-group emphasis, and church-planting network — making it a directly comparable broader incumbent.
• Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden (BFP): BFP is a German association of free Pentecostal churches, sharing Move Church's evangelical free-church identity, contemporary worship style, and German geographic footprint. It represents a similar congregational scale and organizational model within the broader German Freikirche landscape.
• Freie evangelische Gemeinden (FeG): FeG is the largest German network of free evangelical congregations, sharing Move Church's non-denominational evangelical identity and German operating context. While FeG congregations are typically smaller and more dispersed than Move Church campuses, the network affiliation with Evangelische Allianz and the broader free-church movement makes FeG a key structural peer.

Direct peers

• ICF (International Christian Fellowship): ICF is a multi-site evangelical free church with locations across Europe (Zurich, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Tel Aviv) using the same contemporary worship, small-group, and church-planting model as Move Church. Move Church explicitly partners with ICF Zurich and ICF Tel Aviv, and shares the Hillsong Network affiliation, making it the closest direct peer in the German-speaking evangelical free-church space.
• Vineyard Deutschland: Vineyard Deutschland is a network of Vineyard churches in Germany sharing Move Church's contemporary evangelical worship model, emphasis on spiritual gifts (prophetic ministry is a key overlap), and small-group community structure. Like Move Church, it operates multi-site and is engaged in church planting across secular German regions.
• Christliche Gemeinde Köln: Christliche Gemeinde Köln is a multi-site evangelical free church in Germany with a comparable operational footprint to Move Church, using contemporary worship, small groups, and a similar age-segmented ministry approach. It represents a direct regional peer in the German Freikirche space.

Others

• Bibel TV: Bibel TV is a German faith-based television broadcaster that complements Move Church's Kraftvoll Leben TV initiative. While not a direct congregational peer, Bibel TV represents the broader faith-media ecosystem in which Move Church's content strategy operates.

Emerging players

• Bethel Church (Redding): Bethel Church in Redding, California is a US-based evangelical church known for healing services, prophetic ministry, and worship-music influence — all core components of Move Church's program mix (Heilungsgottesdienste, Prophetie ministry, contemporary worship). It serves as an international theological and programmatic peer.

Regional players

• ERF Medien (Evangeliumsrundfunk): ERF Medien is a German Christian media organization operating radio, TV, and online platforms that overlap with Move Church's Kraftvoll Leben TV and podcast initiatives. While a media ministry rather than a congregation, ERF shares Move Church's evangelical audience and German-language broadcasting footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/MoveChurch/videos
• Facebookfacebook.com/movechurchde
• Instagraminstagram.com/movechurchde
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/movechurch

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles22 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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