Pathway Baptist Church

What Pathway Baptist Church does

Pathway Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist religious nonprofit organization headquartered at 229 W. 5th Avenue in Calvert City, Kentucky. Founded circa 1999 and led by Senior Pastor Mike Donald since 1995, the church operates a single-campus ministry serving local families and the broader Calvert City community across all life stages. Its programming is structured around age-segmented ministries including Pathway Preschool (3-4 year old education, Monday-Friday 8:15AM-5:00PM), Children's Ministry (Sunday School, Kid's Church, Awana Clubs, Nursery, iBelieve Club), Youth Ministry (grades 6-12), College & Career Ministry, Adult & Family Ministry, and Missions. Weekly engagement centers on Sunday School at 9:30am, Worship at 10:30am, Prayer at 6:00pm, and Wednesday Awana/Youth Group programming.

The church operates with a small staff of approximately 14 employees and relies on standard third-party technology platforms rather than proprietary infrastructure: CloverGive for online and scheduled donations, a Cloversites-hosted website, YouTube for livestream worship broadcasting, and Google Forms for hiring intake. There is no proprietary technology, mobile application, or software product developed or owned by the organization.

Revenue is generated through three primary streams: (1) recurring tithes and offerings collected during weekly Sunday worship services, (2) online one-time and scheduled donations processed through CloverGive, and (3) Pathway Preschool tuition described as 'reasonable' with financial assistance available. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is community-led and event-driven, relying on word-of-mouth referrals, visitor welcome programs, Facebook organic social presence, and YouTube livestream reach. The customer base consists of congregation members and preschool families in the Calvert City area, with no enterprise customers, institutional donors, or commercial clients. The church operates under Baptist congregational governance with a Board of Deacons and has no parent company, subsidiaries outside of Pathway Preschool, or external ownership.

Name

Pathway Baptist Church

Legal name

Pathway Baptist Church

Website

https://pathwaybaptist.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Pathway Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist nonprofit in Calvert City, Kentucky, operating age-segmented ministries from preschool through adulthood. Revenue comes from member tithes, online giving via CloverGive, and preschool tuition.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based Education & Formation (Seminaries, Religious Schools, Catechesis) (BPAGAJAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Faith-Based Nursery & Playgroups (EDACACAK)

Keywords

• Religious services
• Church ministry
• Early childhood education
• Youth ministry programs
• Online donation platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Calvert City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: Traditional church giving through weekly Sunday morning worship services where members contribute tithes and offerings to support church operations and missions.
2. Online Giving: Secure one-time and scheduled giving through CloverGive platform allowing donors to give via credit card or bank transfer.
3. Pathway Preschool Tuition: Preschool education program for 3 and 4-year-old children operating Monday-Friday, 8:15AM-5:00PM with reasonable rates and financial assistance available.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Pathway Baptist Church is a nonprofit Baptist congregation that delivers weekly worship services, age-specific discipleship ministries (children, youth, college & career, adults and families), community missions outreach, and a God-centered preschool program. It also provides secure online giving and sermon audio content to support its members and the broader Calvert City, Kentucky community.

Product overview

Pathway Baptist Church offers a unified set of ministry programs centered on its mission to carry out the Great Commission. The church operates multiple age-specific ministry programs including Pathway Preschool (God-centered early childhood education), Children's Ministry (Sunday School, Kid's Church, Awana Clubs, Nursery, iBelieve Club), Youth Ministry (grades 6-12), College & Career Ministry, Adult & Family Ministry, and Missions. Core engagement services include Online Giving (via CloverGive integration) for secure tithes and donations, and Sermon Audio for accessing past teachings. The church also operates Sunday School, Sunday worship services, Wednesday Awana and youth group gatherings, and pastoral care through Associate Pastor positions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pathway Preschool A God-centered preschool program for 3 and 4-year-old children operating Monday-Friday, 8:15AM-5:00PM, designed to reach local families for Jesus Christ and provide early childhood education with a biblical foundation. Reasonable tuition rates with financial assistance available upon request.
• Children's Ministry Age-appropriate worship and learning opportunities for babies through 5th grade, including Sunday School, Kid's Church, Awana Clubs, Nursery, and iBelieve Club programs, supporting parents in raising children in the Christian faith.
• Youth Ministry Youth group program for students in grades 6-12 focused on glorifying God through knowing Jesus and becoming more like Him, meeting on Sundays and Wednesdays, with Bible teaching, small groups, mentorship, retreats, mission trips, and outreach events.
• Adult & Family Ministry Men's, women's, and family ministries focused on building foundations of Biblical truths and applying them daily in the home, including Bible study groups, marriage support, and family ministry programs.
• Missions Ministry Mission ministry focused on magnifying God's glory and proclaiming the gospel among all people, with emphasis on prayer initiatives, mission trips, and local and global outreach opportunities.
• College & Career Ministry Ministry encouraging college students and early career-aged individuals to make God's name famous beyond a one-hour-a-week faith experience, through gatherings, spiritual encouragement, and faith integration into daily life.
• Online Giving Secure online and scheduled giving platform enabling one-time and recurring donations through a third-party secure server (CloverGive), allowing members to give via credit card or bank transfer.
• Sermon Audio Audio recordings of Sunday sermons and teachings available for congregation members and visitors to access and listen to past messages.

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Planning Center: Planning Center provides church management software (check-ins, registrations, groups, services) used by many mid-sized churches comparable to Pathway. It represents the operational backbone that churches like Pathway rely on for ministry coordination.
• Tithe.ly: Tithe.ly provides online giving, text-to-give, and church engagement software targeting small and mid-sized churches like Pathway. It is comparable as an alternative digital-giving and engagement platform serving the same customer segment.
• Pushpay: Pushpay is a church giving and engagement platform competing with CloverGive (which Pathway uses). It serves faith-based organizations with digital giving, management, and engagement tools, making it a direct platform peer for the online-giving component.
• Awana Clubs International: Awana provides the children's discipleship curriculum that Pathway Baptist Church uses for its Awana Clubs program. Both organizations are focused on faith-based children's spiritual formation, making Awana a curriculum peer and ministry collaborator.
• Subsplash: Subsplash offers a unified church app, giving, video, and communication platform used by churches to engage members digitally. It overlaps with Pathway's YouTube livestream, online giving, and sermon audio channels as a broader engagement-stack peer.

Broad incumbents

• Elevation Church: Elevation Church is a large multi-site Baptist church known for digital-first outreach and high-production online experiences. It represents the broad-incumbent end of the digital-engagement spectrum that Pathway's YouTube and Facebook channels attempt to access.
• Church of the Highlands: Church of the Highlands is a large multi-campus Baptist megachurch in Alabama. It is comparable as a broad incumbent in the same Baptist worship and discipleship category, illustrating the scaled end of the operating model Pathway participates in.
• Lifeway Christian Resources: Lifeway is the publishing and resources arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, providing Sunday School, Bible study, VBS, and discipleship materials used widely by Baptist churches including Pathway. It is a broad incumbent in the same faith-based education and formation space.
• Southern Baptist Convention: The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. and the broader ecclesiastical body to which Pathway Baptist Church is affiliated by doctrine. It is a broad incumbent setting doctrinal, missional, and resource frameworks for member congregations.

Regional players

• Kentucky Baptist Convention: The Kentucky Baptist Convention is the state convention of the Southern Baptist Convention, providing cooperative missions, disaster relief, and church planting support across Kentucky — the same geography Pathway serves. It is a comparable regional peer for denominational and ministry-support infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@PathwayBaptistCC
• Facebookfacebook.com/PathwayBaptistChurch
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pathway-baptist-church

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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