Overlake Christian Church

What Overlake Christian Church does

Overlake Christian Church (OCC) is a non-profit Christian church founded in 1968 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, on a 27-acre campus. The church operates as a religious non-profit organization, funded primarily through tithes and offerings from its congregation, with no publicly disclosed financial statements. Its core activities center on Sunday worship services held at 10am with Spanish interpretation, supplemented by an extensive ministry ecosystem that includes children's (Kidtown), middle school, and high school ministries, an Early Learning Center for early childhood education, community small groups (scripture study, interest-based, support, service, and prayer), and community outreach services such as a Safe Parking/Day Center for those experiencing housing insecurity. The church also runs facility rentals and supports international service trips, framing itself as a multi-ethnic community with Portuguese-speaking small groups and globally-oriented missions.

The church's digital infrastructure is straightforward and built on commodity platforms: a Squarespace-hosted website (occ.org) serves as the primary digital hub, Vimeo is used for streaming Sunday services and sermon archives, and Wufoo handles form collection for volunteer sign-ups and engagement. No proprietary software, AI capabilities, mobile applications, or developer-facing APIs are evident in the operating stack. Distribution is overwhelmingly physical — congregants gather on-campus — with digital channels functioning as supplementary content delivery rather than primary engagement surfaces.

Governance is led by Co-Lead Pastors Neely McQueen and Pat Swanson, who assumed shared leadership in 2020 in a deliberate move from a single-pastor model to a collaborative structure presented as a "biblical" shared-leadership approach. The church employs 49 staff members and operates with no parent organization, subsidiaries, or disclosed ownership structure typical of for-profit entities. Revenue derives from congregational giving, with the Early Learning Center and facility rentals representing secondary income streams. The customer base is the congregation itself — primarily families with children, young adults, and a Spanish-speaking community — with no concentration in any single external commercial segment.

Name

Overlake Christian Church

Legal name

Overlake Christian Church

Website

https://occ.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Overlake Christian Church is a non-profit Christian church in Redmond, WA, founded 1968, serving a multi-ethnic congregation on a 27-acre campus through Sunday worship, children's and student ministries, small groups, and community outreach programs funded by tithes and offerings.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Religious Organizations (81311), 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

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

Keywords

• Religious services
• Community ministry
• Worship services
• Children's ministry
• Small groups

Headquarters

HQ city

Redmond

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Overlake Christian Church provides weekly Sunday worship services at 10am (with Spanish interpretation) on its 27-acre Redmond, WA campus, complemented by a broad ministry ecosystem including children's and student ministries, adult community small groups, an Early Learning Center, and outreach programs such as a Safe Parking/Day Center. The church delivers its offerings both in-person and online via a Vimeo-integrated sermon library on its Squarespace website.

Product overview

Overlake Christian Church operates a Squarespace-based website as its primary digital ministry platform. The church offers a unified worship experience combining in-person Sunday services with online content distribution through Vimeo. The digital ecosystem includes a watch/messages platform for sermon content, community groups for fellowship, children's and student ministries, and community outreach services. The church utilizes third-party platforms including Squarespace for website hosting, Vimeo for video streaming, and Wufoo for forms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunday Worship Services
• Community Groups
• Children's Ministry (Kidtown)
• Student Ministries (Middle School & High School)
• Early Learning Center
• Safe Parking / Day Center
• Online Sermon Streaming (Watch/Messages)
• Let's Go! Connection Lunches

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Eastside Christian Church: Bellevue/Issaquah-area Christian church with comparable Eastside reach, Sunday worship programming, and family-oriented ministry approach.
• Mosaic Church: Pacific Northwest non-denominational church with a similar community-groups model and multi-generational ministry mix, operating in an adjacent Seattle-area submarket.
• Cedar Park Church: Bothell-based multi-generational Christian church offering children's, student, and adult ministries comparable in scope and target audience to OCC's programming.
• Antioch Community Church: Non-denominational Christian church on Seattle's Eastside (Bothell) with a similar mid-sized congregation model, family ministries, and small-group-driven community engagement.
• Bellevue Presbyterian Church: A mid-sized Presbyterian congregation in Bellevue, WA, serving the same Eastside Seattle demographic as OCC with comparable family-focused programming and a single-campus model.
• Woodinville Community Church: Eastside Seattle-area church with overlapping ministries for children, students, and adults, serving a similar suburban demographic in the Woodinville/Redmond corridor.

Broad incumbents

• North Point Community Church: Large multi-site non-denominational church with a comparable mix of small groups, family ministries, and online content distribution, though operating at a far larger scale than OCC.
• Saddleback Church: One of the largest and most influential non-denominational churches in the U.S., sharing OCC's emphasis on community groups, family ministry, and small-group-driven discipleship.
• Mars Hill Church: Historically a major Pacific Northwest church network; while the original organization dissolved, it set the operational template many Seattle-area congregations — including OCC-style churches — were benchmarked against for multi-site, small-group-driven ministry.

Emerging players

• Vineyard Church (Eastside): Smaller Eastside Seattle congregation with overlapping community-group and family ministry patterns, positioning as a competing option in the same Redmond-adjacent geography.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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