OUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH

What OUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH does

Our Lady of Peace Church and Shrine is a non-profit Roman Catholic parish located at 2800 Mission College Boulevard in Santa Clara, California, operating within the Diocese of San Jose. Founded in connection with a 1985 gift shop ministry and currently served by priests of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) and sisters of the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matara (SSVM), it functions as both a parish church and a Marian shrine offering 24-hour perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Its core services include daily and Sunday Masses in English and Spanish, scheduled confession, all seven sacraments with preparation classes, perpetual adoration, religious education for children, youth, and adults, devotional programs (novenas, Stations of the Cross, Fatima pilgrimage), marriage preparation, and Natural Family Planning classes.

The parish operates a layered technology stack for a religious organization: a WordPress-based website (olop-shrine.org), live streaming on Facebook and YouTube, online donations through Vanco, online parishioner registration via Microsoft Forms, adoration scheduling through AdorationPro, mass intention requests through a web4ucorp portal, GoToConnect for SMS communications, Google Analytics for traffic monitoring, and an EthicsPoint hotline for safe-environment reporting under Diocese of San Jose OPCVA policies. Compliance posture includes GDPR and CCPA privacy commitments alongside sector-specific safe-environment certification.

The revenue model is donation-based: voluntary contributions and Sunday offerings processed in-person, by mail, or online; $10 stipends per Mass intention request; and retail sales from the Our Lady of Peace Gift Shop, which sells Catholic books, statues, rosaries, sacramental gifts, candles, and seasonal items through a physical location (Wed–Sat and Sun) and an olopgiftshop.com webstore. Distribution is predominantly direct in-person at the single Santa Clara campus, supplemented by digital channels for remote participation and giving. The organization employs approximately 40 staff and clergy, with parishioner registrations, formation programs, and shrine-based pilgrimage serving as the primary customer engagement mechanisms.

Name

OUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH

Legal name

Our Lady of Peace Church

Website

https://olop-shrine.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Our Lady of Peace is a Catholic parish and Marian shrine in Santa Clara, California, staffed by IVE priests and SSVM sisters, serving local parishioners with daily Masses, sacraments, perpetual adoration, religious education, and a Catholic gift shop.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services / Catholic Parish

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131)

akta.pro primary industry

Denominational & Ecclesiastical Governance Bodies (Dioceses, Synods, Conferences) (BPAGAJAB)

Keywords

• Catholic parish services
• Religious education programs
• Catholic sacraments administration
• Perpetual adoration chapel
• Catholic gift shop

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Clara

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

Revenue model

1. Donations and Sunday Offerings: The church relies on voluntary donations and Sunday offerings from parishioners to maintain current operation expenses. Donations can be made online, by mail, or in person.
2. Mass Intention Requests: The church accepts Mass intention requests for a donation of $10 per Mass, where individuals can request a Mass to be offered for a specific intention (living or deceased).
3. Gift Shop Sales: The Our Lady of Peace Gift Shop sells Catholic books, goods, religious items, candles, statues, rosaries, and sacramental gifts both in-person and through a webstore. Products include Bibles, Catechisms, Missals, apologetics materials, family resources, theology books, saints' biographies, prayer books, and seasonal items for Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Baptism, First Communion, and Confirmation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Our Lady of Peace Church and Shrine delivers traditional Catholic parish services including daily and Sunday Mass in English and Spanish, confession, all seven sacraments, and 24-hour perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The parish also provides religious education for children, youth, and adults, and operates a retail Catholic gift shop offering books, statues, rosaries, and sacramental items both in-store and online.

Product overview

Our Lady of Peace Church and Shrine operates as a single unified parish offering comprehensive Catholic religious services. The core offerings include multiple daily and Sunday Mass celebrations in English and Spanish with live-streaming, perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, administration of all seven Catholic sacraments, and extensive religious education programs for adults and children. The parish maintains a gift shop for Catholic books and religious goods, provides online giving through Vanco, and offers a shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary for prayer and pilgrimage. Services are conducted by the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) priests.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Our Lady of Peace Gift Shop: Full service Catholic books, goods, and services retail operation offering hand selected books, statues, art, rosaries, scapulars, and sacramental gifts. Started in 1985 and expanded over decades.

Products and services

• Mass Services
• Confession / Reconciliation Services
• Perpetual Adoration
• Catholic Sacraments
• Religious Education Programs
• Our Lady of Peace Gift Shop
• Devotions and Novenas
• Mass Intentions
• Our Lady of Peace Shrine Pilgrimage Site

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE)coreOthersThe priests of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) serve the Our Lady of Peace parish, providing all pastoral services including Mass, sacraments, confession, and spiritual guidance. The IVE is a Catholic religious congregation of priests and seminarians. Current clergy include Fr. Brian Dinkel (Pastor), Fr. Jonathan Dumlao (Associate Pastor), and Fr. Andrew Barth (Associate Pastor).
• Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matara (SSVM)coreOthersThe Sisters of the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matara (SSVM) serve the convent and support parish ministries including Adult Religious Education. Mother Revelacion, SSVM serves as Superior of the convent and leads adult religious education programs.
• Diocese of San JosecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOur Lady of Peace is part of the Diocese of San Jose. The diocese provides oversight, compliance requirements, safe environment training (OPCVA), and administrative support. The parish uses Diocesan systems for volunteer management and follows Diocesan policies for sacraments and operations.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• CatholicTV: A Catholic television and streaming network broadcasting daily Mass and devotional programming — comparable to OLOP's Facebook/YouTube live-streaming ministry, but at national scale.
• EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network): The largest Catholic media network in the U.S., broadcasting daily Mass, devotions, and catechetical programming — overlapping with OLOP's live-streamed Mass and novena content at a vastly larger scale.
• Relevant Radio: A Catholic radio network broadcasting devotional and catechetical content nationwide — thematically adjacent to OLOP's devotional live-streaming and faith formation programming.
• Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Los Angeles): A large California Catholic cathedral with multiple daily Masses in several languages, perpetual adoration, a gift shop, and live streaming — overlapping with OLOP's mix of worship, devotional access, and digital outreach at much larger scale.
• National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception: The largest Catholic shrine in the U.S., with multiple daily Masses, perpetual adoration, gift shops, and pilgrimage programming — the dominant incumbent in the same broad Catholic-shrine category.

Direct peers

• Mission San Juan Capistrano: A California Catholic mission operating as both an active parish and a pilgrimage destination with a gift shop and educational programming — overlapping with OLOP's parish-plus-shrine model.
• Old Mission Santa Barbara: A historic California Catholic mission and active parish with daily Mass, a gift shop, museum operations, and pilgrimage traffic — directly comparable to Our Lady of Peace as a worship site combined with shrine/tourism function.
• Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe (La Crosse, WI): A Marian shrine with daily Mass, perpetual adoration, devotional programming, and a religious goods retail operation — a tight functional match to Our Lady of Peace's shrine and worship offerings.

Emerging players

• Word on Fire Catholic Ministries: A growing Catholic media and evangelization organization producing video content, publishing books, and offering digital formation — adjacent to OLOP's streaming and adult religious education programming.

Others

• Magnificat (Catholic publication): A Catholic monthly prayer and meditation publication sold in parish shops — directly comparable to the devotional and prayer books stocked in OLOP's gift shop.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/our-lady-of-peace-church

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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